Richard Erdoes

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Richard Erdoes (also: Erdős and Erdös, born July 7, 1912 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary or Frankfurt am Main ; † July 16, 2008 in Santa Fe , New Mexico , USA) was a Hungarian-Austrian-American artist , publicist and Fighters for the rights of the American Indians . He did not omit the Indian women's movement . In the United States , he achieved a high profile as an expert on the culture of the North American Indians , in particular the Sioux , which is due to the publication of numerous books and photo volumes, most of which have been translated into six languages ​​and are constantly being reprinted.

Life

Erdoes was the son of the Hungarian Jewish opera singer Richárd Erdős (1881-1912) and an Austrian Catholic baker's daughter. His father died before he was born, which is why his mother looked for a new home in Germany with her sister, the actress Leopoldine Schrom . He grew up in Berlin and Vienna. He studied ethnology , archeology , anthropology and art in these cities as well as in Paris - the latter in Berlin at the Academy of Arts under Käthe Kollwitz . He wrote short stories and worked as a cartoonist for the newspapers Der Tag and Die Stunden . After the annexation of Austria he went into hiding and fled to Belgium and France via Berlin in 1939. In 1940 he went from Great Britain to the United States, where he mainly worked as a photographer and illustrator until 1970 , including for Time Inc. , Life , National Geographic , Vogue , Harpers Baazar , Fortune and New York Times . In 1942 he illustrated A Gang of Ten for Erika Mann . He also illustrated the book Come over to My House by the well-known children's book author Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) . In 1958 Erdoes became a US citizen. After 1970 he dealt increasingly with the American Indian cultures, which soon became his new main field of activity. He also initiated publications that gave insight into the Indian women's movement for the first time and highlighted the role of women in the uprising of the American Indian movement against human rights violations in the USA in 1973 at the Wounded Knee (with Mary Crow Dog ).

In the course of his life, his journalistic work has created an extensive archive of over 60,000 photos as well as numerous manuscripts, film and tape recordings. These range from Austrian theater life from around 1860 to Vienna in the interwar period and the New York art scene of the 1950s to the Indian reservations.

Richard Erdoes lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico and worked as a writer and civil rights activist until his death.

Works

• John Fire Lame Deer , Richard Erdoes: Tahca Ushte, Sioux medicine man , various editions since 1972, e.g. B. DTV, Munich, 1997, ISBN 3-471-77423-8
• Richard Erdoes, Alfonso Ortiz: American Indian Myths and Legends
• Mary Crow Dog, Richard Erdoes: Ohitika Woman
• Mary Crow Dog, Richard Erdoes: Lakota Woman
• Richard Erdoes: Saloons of the Old West
• Richard Erdoes, Crying for a Dream: The World through Native American Eyes
• Richard Erdoes, Chief Archie Fire Lame Deer: Gift of Power: The Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man
• Richard Erdoes, Leonard Crow Dog: Crow Dog - Four Generations Of Sioux Medicine Men
• Richard Erdoes: The Thunder Dreamer - Memories. Picus Verlag, Vienna 1999
• Dennis Banks, Richard Erdoes: Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement. Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8061-3580-8

Movie

The documentary Stein Weißer Mann by Martina Theininger and Georg Schrom, completed in 1999, is dedicated to the work and research of Richard Erdoes as a fighter for the civil rights of American Indians. The book “Lakota Woman” was also made into a film and received even more attention, including on the European continent.

criticism

Erdoes' books on pueblo culture , The Pueblo Indians (1969) and The Rain Dance People: The Pueblo Indians, Their Past and Present (1976) have been criticized by the literary magazine " Kirkus Reviews ". The Pueblo Indians is a vague jumble of generalities, sloppy differentiations and unfounded conclusions; only the sections on arts and crafts are of some interest at the tourist level. In The Rain Dance People , Erdoes was an indifferent simplification and talkative condescension.

In connection with his book Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions (German: Tahca Ushte, medicine man of the Sioux ) Erdoes was accused of spreading "pop pantheism", plagiarizing other works such as B. the ethnologist Frances Densmore , rewrite them in his sense and invent Lakota traditions. Some of his invented traditions are "entertaining and relatively harmless illusions," others could have negative effects on the development of the Lakota culture. The book creates "a template for those who want to imitate the Lakota culture".

Awards

• American Book Award (1990)
• Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st Class (1999)

literature

• Ursula Seeber [ed.]: Small allies: expelled Austrian children's and youth literature , Austrian library in exile. Picus, Vienna 1998 ISBN 3-85452-276-2 . Short bio on p. 118f
• Astrid Fernengel: Children's literature in exile , Tectum, Marburg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8288-9592-8 . Diss. TU Berlin 2006. Short bio on p. 227

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Erdoes in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Richard Erdoes  in the German Digital Library
• Richard Erdoes in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ indication Astrid Fernengel: children's literature in exile , p 227; also: Richard Erdoes Papers - Biographical Sketch , Biographical Source: Something About the Author. vol. 33, p. 63-67
2. ↑ Information from Ursula Seeber: Small allies , p. 118; also: Richard Erdoes died at the age of 96 , in: Der Standard
3. ↑ Life, that's strange - And the thunderer knows that ( memento of the original from April 26, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Esther F. Corinth, University of Karlsruhe, 1999
4. ↑ About Richard Erdoes ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Peter Schwarzbauer, Society for Endangered Peoples, 1998
5. ^ The Pueblo Indians. Kirkus Reviews, accessed October 18, 2019 . 
6. ^ The Rain Dance People: The Pueblo Indians, Their Past and Present. Kirkus Reviews, accessed October 18, 2019 . 
7. ^ Julian Rice: A Ventriloquy of Anthros: Densmore, Dorsey, Lame Deer, and Erdoes. In: American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 2, Spring 1994, pp. 169-196. University of Nebraska Press, published on JSTOR , 1994, accessed October 18, 2019 .