Richard Berczeller

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Richard Berczeller (born February 4, 1902 in Ödenburg , Austria-Hungary ; died January 3, 1994 in New York City ) was an Austrian doctor, author and film actor.

Life

The son from a middle-class Jewish family with a medical tradition grew up in Ödenburg (Sopron) in what was then German-West Hungary . His father Adolf Berczeller was a leading social democrat and trade unionist in Hungary. After the Horthy regime came to power, the family emigrated to Austria and settled in Sauerbrunn in Burgenland . Berczeller studied medicine from 1920 and also worked as an actor for Michael Curtiz , who was still called Kertész at the time. Berczeller played the role of Lot in the monumental film Sodom and Gomorrah (1922).

After completing his medical degree in 1926, Berczeller became a community doctor in Mattersburg in 1930 . He was particularly impressed by his academic teacher Julius Tandler . After the February uprising in 1934, Berczeller joined the (forbidden) Revolutionary Socialists movement in Austria . After the annexation of Austria in March 1938, he was arrested and robbed by the local National Socialists, among them the mayor Franz Giefing and the district leader of the NSDAP Karl Sobota , and mistreated with stick beats and ox pizzas. He then emigrated to the USA via France and West Africa. He continued to practice his medical profession there, but also published humorous and melancholy short prose in the respected New Yorker . In later years Berczeller received numerous honors from Austrian public authorities.

Works (selection)

  • -, Kurt Wagenseil (transl.): The seven lives of Doctor B. Odyssey of a Doctor . List, Munich 1965. (From English: Displaced Doctor , New York, NY 1964).
  • Time what. The zestful education of a young Viennese doctor in the years before the storm. A memory . (English). Viking Press, New York, NY 1971, ISBN 0-670-71563-8 .
  • -, Norbert readers : … connected with Austria. The fate of Burgenland 1918–1945 . Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7141-6529-0 .
  • Norbert readers, -: As onlookers of politics. Austrian contemporary history in confrontations . Jugend und Volk, Vienna (a. A.) 1977, ISBN 3-7141-6535-5 .
  • -, Mathias Gabriel (translator): Gone . (Autobiography). Edition Roetzer, Eisenstadt 1983, ISBN 3-85374-117-7 .
  • Joachim Riedl (Ed.), -: “Because they don't kill the ghost, you brothers!” Festschrift for Richard Berczeller's 90th birthday . Contemporary witnesses, Volume 1, ZDB -ID 2274666-3 . Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverlag, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85437-042-3 . - Table of contents (PDF) .
  • -, Elisabeth Bartosch (design): Heimat-Los. A portrait of an Austrian living abroad . TV broadcast, July 13, 1992. 1 video cassette, SVHS , 55 min, mono, color. ORF FS2, 1992.
  • “It won't be that bad!” In: Gerhard Jelinek : News from the 4th Reich . Ecowin-Verlag, Salzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-902404-64-0 , pp. 27-40.
  • -, Georg Kusztrich (speaker): There was a time. About the life and work of Richard Berczeller. theLiteraturhausMattersburg . 1 CD (12 cm). Burgenland audio archive, ORF Burgenland. Verlag Edition lex liszt, Oberwart 2011, ISBN 978-3-901757-97-6 .
  • -, Jacqueline Csuss (transl.): Drive into the blue and other stories from the New Yorker . Czernin-Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7076-0397-2 .

Filmography

literature

  • Traude Horvath (ed.), Milenia Snowdon-Prötsch (ed.): Richard Berczeller, 1902–1994. Sopron - Mattersburg - New York . Kanica, St. Margareten 1996, ISBN 3-900874-11-5 .
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , pp. 743f.
  • Alfred Pfabigan : The "literary life" of Doctor Berczeller . (Parallel title :) Richard Berczeller's "Displaced Doctor" . In: Jeanne Benay et al. (Ed.): Austrian Satire (1933–2000). Exile - remigration - assimilation . Lang, Bern 2003, ISBN 3-03910-090-4 , pp. 277-294.
  • Berczeller, Richard. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 2: Bend Bins. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-598-22682-9 , pp. 114-117.
  • Margit Franz: Richard Berczeller: As a doctor in the ivory arts. In: Margit Franz, Heimo Halbrainer (ed.): Going east - going south: Austrian exile in Asia and Africa . Graz: Clio, 2014 ISBN 978-3-902542-34-2 , pp. 229-232
  • Michael Martischnig: “Because they don't kill the spirit, you brothers!” , 1992, bio- and bibliography, commemorative publication on the occasion of his 90th birthday, ISBN 978-3-85437-042-0

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