Paul Patera

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Paul Patera , previously Paul Michael Deutsch (born June 17, 1917 in Vienna , Austria ; died November 21, 2004 in Uppsala , Sweden ) was a Swedish-Austrian publicist and theater director.

Life

Patera grew up as Paul Michael Deutsch, son of an Aryan mother and a Jewish father, in the 8th district of Vienna . He graduated from high school in 1935 and then began studying medicine at the University of Vienna .

After Austria's "annexation" to the National Socialist German Reich , Patera, who as a half-Jew could not expect a career in the Nazi regime, fled to Sweden in August 1938. His mother died in Vienna in 1939 after a traffic accident. His then defenseless father Ernst Deutsch was deported to Riga in 1941, where he is lost.

Paul had been working as a freelance journalist under his mother's maiden name since 1944, which he had been using legally since 1962.

Since the 1960s he came to the Medborgarskolan public education center, where he was a lecturer a. a. worked for contemporary music, returned to Vienna again and again and wrote in the daily newspaper “Upsala Nya Tidning” (historical spelling of the city's name), among other things, cultural feuilletons about his former hometown. His trips to Vienna were partly supported by the Vienna Tourist Board.

Alfred Grünewald is certainly largely forgotten today, but not entirely: in 1964, his play "Johannes goes astray" was premiered in Stockholm under the direction of the emigrated Viennese Paul Patera.

In 1973 Patera organized the exhibition “Young Austrian Surrealists” in Bromölla, Uppsala and Eslöv (where Ikea was founded ), including works by the Viennese painter Herbert Ossberger.

With the support of the Josefstadt District Museum and Patera's Swedish employer, he exhibited in May / June 1976 under the title “Discovered Josefstadt. A Josefstädter Returns ”in the“ Small Gallery ”in Neudeggergasse shows the photographic result of the exploration of his former residential area. In this context he stated that he grew up in the house at 16 Tigergasse. (The alley connects Josefstädter and Lerchenfelder Straße.)

In October 1985, the Vienna ÖVP city ​​councilor and cultural journalist Jörg Mauthe wrote in a letter to Patera three months before his death: ... “Wrong life in the wrong country” - well, I can think about it, but finally, I mean it seriously , we are in any case only a temporary phenomenon, sent here from somewhere as a guest or exile. And the "Zores"? Are only shadows. On February 6, 1986, Patera published an obituary for Mauthe in Upsala Nya Tidning . He mentioned Patera several times in his posthumous illness diary, Coming Soon or The Stone of Sisyphus .

On June 2, 1989, Patera was honored in the Vienna City Hall .

Paul collected rare records of modern music and bequeathed this collection to Uppsala University. He kept coming back to Vienna until the late 1990s. At the end of June 1997 he spent ten days in a quarter in Vienna that friends had provided for free.

Own work

(mostly from the electronic catalog of the Austrian National Library , Vienna)

  • Correspondence to Heimito von Doderer , 1952, 1960, 1961, 1964 (ONB)
  • Correspondence to Friedrich Torberg , 1949, 1950 (ONB)
  • Jugend - en återupptäckt konststil , Stockholm 1967
  • with Hans Bisanz: Wilhelm Träger: Vienna 1932, a series of 41 linocuts , Edition Tusch, Vienna 1976; Text quote: There are the beggars. Can today's young people understand that the golden city of Weana was once full of them? They are one of my earliest childhood impressions. Nobody from Wilhelm Traeger's generation or mine has forgotten it, can never forget it.
  • Vienna - Uppsala , Medborgarskolan Bokmalen, Uppsala 1987
  • Correspondence to Robert Schollum , 1985 to 1987 (ONB)
  • Article Heitor Villa-Lobos , Brasiliens store tonsättare , in: Zeitschrift Tidsspegel , Uppsala 1987, ONB

Other

  • Letters from Heimito von Doderer and Friedrich Torberg to Patera, 1949 to 1963 (ONB)
  • Günther Gluhak: Paul Patera: a biobibliography , German Institute of Stockholm University, 1972 (ONB)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Medborgarskolan
  2. ^ Entry on Alfred Grünewald in the Austria Forum
  3. ↑ http://ossberger.net/
  4. ^ Letter from Jörg Mauthe from October 25, 1985
  5. ^ Meeting with Wolfgang J. Kraus

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Patera, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES German, Paul Ernst (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian publicist and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 2004
Place of death Uppsala , Sweden