Paul Schick (librarian)

Paul Schick (born March 29, 1904 in Vienna ; † April 1, 1975 ibid) was an Austrian librarian who, together with his wife Sophie , earned merit for the estate of the writer Karl Kraus .

Life

Paul Schick was a doctor of law who returned to Austria and Vienna from exile in 1946 . Although he was re-enrolled in the bar, from which he had previously been excluded on "racial grounds", he began to work for Viktor Matejka in the city administration. As a librarian at the Vienna City and State Library , he was responsible for the split up estate of Karl Kraus , which he looked after and brought together. Together with his wife Sophie Schick (born Rowinska, June 22, 1914 in Warsaw, died November 5, 1995), dealing with Kraus became a central life task. With a Rowohlt picture monograph in 1965 he made an important contribution to the understanding of Kraus' biography. In 1964 he also curated the first exhibition about Kraus.

Works

• Paul Schick: Karl Kraus in personal reports and photo documents . Reinbek: Rowohlt 1965.

literature

• Marcel Atze: The door sign to a 'branch' of Karl Kraus Archives in the Johannes Gasse 16 . In: Katharina Prager (ed.): Spirit versus Zeitgeist: Karl Kraus in the First Republic . Vienna, Metroverlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-99300-328-9 , pp. 221–223.
• Katharina Prager: "These seemingly unimportant pieces of paper turned out to be particularly informative." Archive and research on Karl Kraus. Vienna, Metroverlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-99300-328-9 , pp. 226–243.
• Entry about Paul Schick in the register of Austrian estates

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Katharina Prager: "It is precisely these apparently unimportant pieces of paper that turned out to be particularly informative." Archive and research on Karl Kraus. In: Katharina Prager (ed.): Geist versus Zeitgeist . Metro Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-99300-328-9 , p. 231 .