Richard Beer-Hofmann

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Arthur Schnitzler and Hermann Bahr (1895) OeNB 3778967
Anton Josef Trčka: Richard Beer-Hoffmann 1925

Richard Beer-Hofmann (born July 11, 1866 in Vienna , † September 26, 1945 in New York ) was an Austrian novelist , playwright and poet .

Life

Paula Lissy (1892), later wife
Richard Beer-Hofmann's villa in Währing around 1905. The building designed by Josef Hoffmann was demolished in 1970.

Richard Beer came as the son of Hermann Beer and Rosa, nee Stöckerl to the world. The mother died a few days after the birth (on July 17th) and was buried in the Israelite cemetery in Währing . As a result, he was adopted on October 30, 1883 by his aunt and her husband Alois Hofmann, which is why he used the double name Beer-Hofmann. Richard Beer-Hofmann grew up in the house of his aunt and uncle in Brno and Vienna, where he attended the academic high school. In the 1880s he began studying law in Vienna, which he completed in 1890 with his doctorate . Around this time he got to know the writers Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Hermann Bahr and Arthur Schnitzler , with whom he was to have a long friendship. Financially secure, he was able to live as a freelance writer without having to make a living from this activity. In 1898 he married Pauline Anna Lissy, called Paula; the couple had three children, Mirjam, Naëmah and Gabriel.

The volume Novellen ( Das Kind , Camelias ) appeared in 1893, followed by poems, including his most famous lullaby for Mirjam (1898). In 1900 the story Der Tod Georgs was published and in 1904 the tragedy Der Graf von Charolais . From 1906 Beer-Hofmann worked on the drama cycle The History of King David , which, however, remained unfinished. After the First World War and the inflationary period, he was forced to work for wages. From the 1920s to 1932 he worked as a director for Max Reinhardt , among others . During this time he also commented on the highly political discussion about the national and linguistic independence of Austrians. About the uniform North German coined standard language, he said about 1933:

"Anyone who is in a more southern, Austrian country, will be confronted with a northern German language that is foreign to him, either be convinced that the northern German - not his own language usage is correct (...), or he will continue to use it (. ..) inwardly rejecting, but still - so to speak 'against nature'. intimidated, with a guilty conscience, obey the northern German language. "

Since the annexation of Austria (1938) he was actively threatened by his Jewish descent . Richard Beer-Hofmann did not emigrate until August 19, 1939, first to Switzerland ( Zurich ), where he had unsuccessfully applied for a residence permit, and two weeks after his wife's death, via the port of Genoa , to New York . At that time, his two daughters were already living in the USA. There he gave up work on King David and devoted himself entirely to memorializing his beloved wife Paula, who died on October 30, 1939 in Zurich. In 1945 he was granted American citizenship . He died that same year and was buried next to Paula in the Jewish cemetery Unterer Friesenberg (grave no. 2008/2009). His daughters Mirjam and Naëmah are also buried here.

Work reception and honors

Stylistically, Beer-Hofmann's work is most likely to be assigned to the literary movement of Art Nouveau .

Beer-Hofmann has received several awards, including the People's Schiller Prize in Germany in 1905 and the National Institute of Arts and Letters Prize in the USA in 1945 . The Beer Hofmann Society was founded in New York a year after his death.

In 1968 the Beer-Hofmann-Gasse in Vienna- Floridsdorf (21st district) and in 2005 the extension of this street Beer-Hofmann-Weg was named after him. In Tel Aviv , the street in front of the Immanuel Church in the American Colony bears his name.

His estate is located in the Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut , in the Houghton Library at Harvard University and, this part available online, in New York in the Leo Baeck Institute .

Works

For a list of all works see Wikisource

  • Novellas (1893)
  • Lullaby for Mirjam (poem. 1897)
  • The death of George (Roman. 1900)
  • The Count of Charolais. A Tragedy (1904)
  • Commemorative speech for Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1906)
  • Trilogy The Story of King David (unfinished)
    • Jaákob's dream. A Prelude (1918)
    • Young David. Seven Pictures (1933)
    • Prelude to King David in the Theater (1936)
  • Verses (1941)
  • Paula. A fragment (1949)
Memorial plaque at the Academic Gymnasium

Work edition

  1. Lullaby for Mirjam. Poetry, prose, pantomime and other scattered texts . Edited by Günter Helmes , Michael M. Schardt and Andreas Thomasberger , Oldenburg 1998
  2. Novellas . Edited by Günter Helmes, Michael M. Schardt and Andreas Thomasberger, Oldenburg 1993
  3. The death of George . Novel. Edited by Alo Allkemper, Günter Helmes, Michael M. Schardt and Andreas Thomasberger, Oldenburg 1994
  4. The Count of Charolais. A tragedy and other dramatic designs. Edited by Andreas Thomasberger, Günter Helmes and Michael M. Schardt, Oldenburg 1994
  5. The History of King David and Other Dramatic Designs. Edited by Norbert O. Eke, Günter Helmes, Michael M. Schardt and Andreas Thomasberger, Oldenburg 1996
  6. Paula. A fragment. Edited by Sören Eberhardt and Andreas Thomasberger, Oldenburg 1994
  7. Letters 1895–1945. Edited by Alexander Košenina, Oldenburg 1999
  8. The correspondence with Paula 1896–1937. With the participation of Peter Michael Braunwarth ed. by Richard M. Sheirich, Oldenburg 2002

expenditure

literature

  • Theodor Reik , The Work of Richard Beer-Hoffmann. Vienna, Berlin 1919.
  • Jeffrey B. Berlin : Notes on an Unpublished Letter: Brandes, Beer-Hofmann, Schnitzler. In: Text & Context. Journal for German literature research in Scandinavia. Wilhelm Fink, Copenhagen / Munich 1982, pp. 164–170.
  • Jeffrey B. Berlin: The Unpublished Letters from Richard Beer-Hofmann to Hermann Bahr (with the unpublished letters between Beer-Hofmann and Theodor Herzl ). In: Mark H. Gelber (Ed.): Identity and Ethos: A Festschrift for Sol Liptzin on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday. Peter Lang, New York / Bern / Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-89693-266-7 , pp. 121-144.
  • Jeffrey B. Berlin: The Friendship and Unpublished Correspondence between Thornton Wilder and Richard Beer-Hofmann. In: Germanic-Romanic monthly. NF, Volume 40, Issue 3, 1990, pp. 304-323.
  • Dieter Borchmeyer (Ed.): Richard Beer-Hofmann. Between aestheticism and Judaism. Igel Verlag, Paderborn 1996, ISBN 3-89621-035-1 .
  • Norbert Otto Eke, Günter Helmes (ed.): Richard Beer-Hofmann. Studies on his work . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-88479-573-2 .
  • Günter Helmes: "Beer-Hofmann's 'child' is a splendid, healthy kid". Beauty and meaning in Richard Beer-Hofmann's novellas. In: Helmes Eke: Richard Beer-Hofmann. Studies on his work . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-88479-573-2 , pp. 57-85.
  • Sören Eberhardt, Charis Goer (ed.): About Richard Beer-Hofmann. Reception documents from 100 years. (= Cologne work at the turn of the century. Volume 8; Literature and media studies. Volume 46). Igel, Paderborn 1996, ISBN 3-89621-023-8 .
  • Günter Helmes, Michael M. Schardt, Andreas Thomasberger (Ed.): Large Richard Beer-Hofmann edition. 8 volumes. Igel, Paderborn / Oldenburg 1993-2002.
  • Günter Helmes: Beauty - Faith - Love. Sense. References to the life and work of Richard Beer-Hofmann. In: Richard Beer-Hofmann: Novellas . Igel, Paderborn 1993, ISBN 3-927104-40-X , pp. 109-128.
  • Günter Helmes: “Agony and suffering made my wings sprout again.” About drafts and sketches for Richard Beer-Hofmann's “The History of King David”. In: Dieter Borchmeyer (Ed.): Richard Beer-Hofmann. Between aestheticism and Judaism . Igel Verlag, Paderborn 1996, ISBN 3-89621-035-1 , pp. 119-133.
  • Daniel Hoh: Death experiences and vitalization strategies in Richard Beer-Hofmann's early narrative. Igel, Oldenburg 2006, ISBN 3-89621-215-X .
  • Karin C. Inderwisch: A glance at Richard Beer-Hofmann. Igel, Oldenburg 1998, ISBN 3-89621-063-7 .
  • Fritz Martini:  Beer-Hofmann, Richard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 737 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Stefan Scherer: Richard Beer-Hofmann and Viennese Modernism. Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 1993, ISBN 3-484-65106-7 .
  • Volker Weidermann : The book of burned books. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-03962-7 . (On Beer-Hofmann pp. 73–75)
  • Beer-Hofmann Richard. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 64.
  • Richard Beer-Hofmann in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  • Beer-Hofmann, Richard. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 1: A-Benc. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22681-0 , pp. 444-452.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2,1, Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 69.

other

Web links

Commons : Richard Beer-Hofmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Richard Beer-Hofmann  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Austria, Lower Austria, Vienna, Matriken der Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, 1784-1911," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-LBKB-6WT?cc=2028320&wc = 4692-D66% 3A344266801% 2C344266802% 2C344412901: 20 May 2014), Vienna (all districts)> birth books> birth register D 1864-1867> image 153 of 224; Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Community of Vienna) Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna, Austria.
  2. ↑ "Austria, Lower Austria, Vienna, Matriken der Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, 1784-1911," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-LB2W-BQM?cc=2028320&wc = 4692-D6F% 3A344266801% 2C344266802% 2C344471901: 20 May 2014), Vienna (all districts)> birth books> birth register T 1897> image 203 of 341; Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Community of Vienna) Municipal and Provinical Archives of Vienna, Austria.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Daniel Foppa: Famous and forgotten dead in Zurich's cemeteries . Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-85791-324-X , p. 12 f., 177 .
  4. ^ Dieter Langewiesche, Georg Schmidt, Weimar Classic Foundation: Federal Republic ; Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2000, ISBN 3-486-56454-4 , chapter: German in Austria in the 18th to 20th centuries , by Ingo Reiffenstein, page 303 ( Memento of the original from April 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was used automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / books.google.at
  5. ^ Beer-Hofmann-Gasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna ,
    Beer-Hofmann-Weg in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Beer-Hofmann, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian playwright and poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1945
Place of death New York City