René Fülöp Miller

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René Fülöp Miller (actually Philipp René Maria Müller * March 17, 1891 in Caransebesch , Austria-Hungary , today Romania ; † May 7, 1963 in Hanover , New Hampshire ) was an American writer and sociologist of Austro-Hungarian origin.

Life

At the age of 17, Fülöp Miller came to the University of Vienna in 1908 to study chemistry and pharmacy . During his first literary attempts he met Stefan Zweig , who encouraged him to the best of his ability, and made contacts with Gina Kaus . Fülöp Miller completed his studies at the Universities of Berlin and Paris in Lausanne , where he finished his studies. He then wrote only in German and went on a long study trip through Russia, the United States and Asia Minor . The success of being able to publish his reports on it in various feature sections led him to seek his livelihood less as a scientist than as a journalist. He was rapporteur for the peace conferences in Geneva in 1922 and Lugano in 1924, traveled to Hollywood in 1930 and then lived in various parts of Europe.

In 1939 Fülöp Miller emigrated from Norway to the USA, lived in Croton-on-Hudson ( Westchester County ) and became a US citizen in 1943. Between 1950 and 1954 he taught Russian culture and sociology at Dartmouth College in Hanover , New Hampshire . In 1954 he moved to Hunter College in New York City in the same position and returned to Dartmouth College as a lecturer in the fall of 1962. His last major publication is his 1960 novel The Silver Bacchanal .

During his exile during the Nazi regime , he also worked with the pseudonyms Philipp Jakob Müller and René Miller .

Quotes

"The happy ending , which seems to correspond solely to America's mental hygiene, is thus sacrosanct to this day, it humbly serves the American religion of optimism and contributes to the sublime work of general mass happiness."

Works

  • Dostoevsky playing roulette. Piper, Munich 1925 (together with Friedrich Eckstein )
  • Power and mystery of the Jesuits. A cultural and intellectual history. 1926. Reprinted by Fourier Verlag, Wiesbaden 1996, ISBN 3-925037-79-9 . (first 1929)
  • Spirit and face of Bolshevism. Presentation and criticism of the cultural life in Soviet Russia. Amalthea-Verl. Zurich 1926. Under the title Fantasy and Everyday Life in Soviet Russia. An eyewitness report. Elefanten-Press-Verlag, Berlin 1978.
  • The holy devil. Rasputin and the women. Grethlein & Co., Leipzig 1927. The holy devil. The truth about Rasputin. Edition LKG, Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-376-05011-2 .
  • Lenin and Gandhi. Amalthea-Verlag, Leipzig 1927.
  • The Russian theater. Its essence and its history with special reference to the revolutionary period. Amalthea-Verlag, Leipzig 1928 (together with Joseph Gregor).
  • Under three tsars. The memoirs of the Court Marshal Elisabeth Narischkin-Kurakin. Amalthea-Verlag, Leipzig 1930.
  • The fantasy machine. A saga of addiction to profit. Zsolnay, Vienna 1931.
  • The American theater and cinema. Two treatises on cultural history. Amalthea-Verlag, Leipzig 1931 (together with Joseph Gregor )
  • Leaders, enthusiasts and rebels. The great dreams of mankind. Buckmann, Munich 1934.
  • Leo XIII. and our time. Power of the Church, powers of the world. Rascher publishing house, Leipzig 1935
  • Cat music. Roman Vienna 1936. New edition by Weidle, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-931135-35-7 .
  • Cultural history of medicine in Munich: F. Bruckmann 1937. Fight against pain and death. Cultural history of medicine. Süd-Ost-Verlag, Berlin 1938
  • That moved the world. Antonius, Augustine, Francis, Ignatius, Therese. Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1952
  • Endre. Novel trilogy. Rabenstein, Salzburg 1952.
  • Saint Francis, the saint of love. A message of comfort and confidence. Verlag das Goldene Viess, Frankfurt / M. 1955.
  • The Silver Bacchanal. Novel. Athenaeum Publishers, New York 1960. ( archive.org ).

Editing

  • Anna Dostoevskaja : memories. Dostoevsky's Life in His Wife's Notes. With Friedrich Eckstein. Piper, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-492-02569-2 (Munich: Piper 1925).
  • Tolstoy's flight and death , portrayed by his daughter Alexandra. With the letters and diaries of Leo Tolstoy, his wife , his doctor and his friends. With Alexandra Tolstoy. The Russian orig. Documents were translated by Vera Mitrofanoff-Demelič, Zurich: Diogenes 2008 ISBN 3-257-23670-0 .
  • Leonid Großmann : A Jew's Confession in Letters to Dostoyevsky , translated from Russian. Munich: Piper, 1927

literature

Web links

See dissertation project on Fülöp-Miller: https://www.igk-kulturtransfer.uni-freiburg.de/p/g1/katja-plachov/

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anke Hees: Fülöp-Miller, René , in: German Literature Lexicon 20th Century, 10th Volume: Fries – Gellert. Published by Konrad Feilchenfeld, KG Saur Verlag, Zurich / Munich 2007, Sp. 278.
  2. ^ Review by Hermann Bahr : Diary. October 26th. In: Neues Wiener Journal. 37, 14, # 12921, 1929, November 10, 1929.
personal data
SURNAME Fülöp Miller, René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Philipp Jakob; Miller, René; Miller, René Fülöp; Müller, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and sociologist of Austrian origin
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Caransebesch , Austria-Hungary , today Romania
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1963
Place of death Hanover , New Hampshire