Richard Lewinsohn

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Richard Lewinsohn (born September 23, 1894 in Graudenz ; died April 9, 1968 in Madrid ) was a doctor , German business journalist and writer . He published numerous texts and books under the pseudonyms Morus and Campanella .

Life

Origin and education

Lewinsohn was born in the then West Prussian fortress town of Graudenz in 1894 as the son of the brick factory owner Salomon Lewinsohn. His mother's name was Monna Brilles. After graduating from high school in 1913, Lewinsohn studied medicine and economics in Munich, Göttingen, Jena, Bonn and Berlin. In the First World War he is said to have led a front-line hospital train as a budding medic. His dissertation in medicine was published in 1919 under the title Carcinoma and Trauma . After the end of the war he worked at the Social Hygiene Institute in Berlin. The title of his doctoral thesis in political science, published in 1923, was Socialism and Population Policy .

Journalist in Berlin

After completing his two doctorates, Lewinsohn turned full-time to journalism. From 1923 to 1925 Lewinsohn was a political editor at the Berlin- based Vossische Zeitung . From 1925 to 1931 he headed their business department. From 1921 to 1931 he also wrote nearly 400 economic policy articles for the Berlin weekly Die Weltbühne under the pseudonym More . In his review of 25 years of the world stage , Kurt Tucholsky paid tribute to Lewinsohn's work as follows:

With More, SJ was very mysterious at first. "You will see ..." he said. "Who is it?" Deep secret. A doctor? A journalist? Well, I saw that here on the one the usually dry and only for the visitors to the Castle Road trade section readable, that his articles with which Jacob's son are also probably been most widely read and read so amusing, so alive and so relentlessly funny designed.
Kurt Tucholsky: "Twenty-five Years", in: Die Weltbühne , September 9, 1930, p. 379.

In the 1920s Lewinsohn made a name for himself as the author of economic policy studies and business portraits. In 1929 a biography of the "mysterious European" Basil Zaharoff was published .

emigration

In 1930 Lewinsohn went to Paris to head the Ullstein office . After the takeover of the Nazis Lewin son was released and remained in Paris, where he under the new pseudonym Campanella for those of Leopold Schwarzschild published exile magazine The New Days book wrote. He is also said to have published in the French papers Paris-Midi and L'Intransigeant and to have been a correspondent for the Portuguese República ? When the German exiled newspaper Pariser Tageblatt - the first issue of the daily newspaper appeared on December 12, 1933 - was founded, Lewinsohn became its business editor.

In June 1936, due to financial problems of the Pariser Tageblatt, at the behest of the publisher Vladimir Polyakov, he and the journalist Heinz Pol were to become the paper's new editor-in-chief , replacing the incumbent Georg Bernhard . The editors of the Tageblatt then launched a coup against their publisher and founded a rival paper , the Paris daily newspaper . In their first edition they branded Lewinsohn and Poliakow as "traitors" who wanted to offer the Pariser Tageblatt to the Nazis and therefore wanted to fire Bernhard and other anti-Nazi editors. In addition, the putschists carried out a number of criminal attacks. Lewinsohn was attacked and beaten, so that he was seriously injured. The Tageblatt's office was robbed and destroyed, and the subscription card stolen. The first edition of the daily newspaper after the coup was stolen and destroyed. Because the German exiles also believed the unproven lies of the putschists about Bernhard, the Pariser Tageblatt had to cease operations. A committee of inquiry founded in exile circles, which came into being at the instigation of the journal Das Neue Tagebuch by Leopold Schwarzschild and which also included Georg Bernhard and Berthold Jacob, found a little later that the accusations against Poliakow were unfounded and wrongly made.

Lewinsohn was interned in 1939, first in Colombes (northwest of Paris) and later in various central French camps. In 1940 he continued his escape to Brazil , where he founded an institute for economic research and in November 1947 the business magazine Cunjuntura Econômica . He also worked as an economic advisor to the Brazilian government and as a lecturer at the University of Rio de Janeiro .

Return to Europe

In 1952 he returned to Paris, from where he worked as a correspondent for the Conjuntura Econômica and several European media. In the following years he published a number of cultural-historical considerations, such as a world history of sexuality and a world history of the heart . Several of his books have also been translated into English and French. Lewinsohn died in Madrid in 1968, where he was staying for study purposes. His grave is in the Madrid civil cemetery.

The Richard Lewinsohn-More-Foundation, based in Lucerne , Switzerland , looks after the writer's literary estate.

Fonts

  • Socialism and Population Policy , Berlin 1923
  • Jewish world finance? , Berlin / Hamburg 1925
  • The reallocation of European assets , Berlin 1925
  • How they got big and rich , Berlin 1927
  • The man in the dark: the life story of Sir Basil Zaharoff the "mysterious European" , Berlin 1929
  • Money in Politics , Berlin 1930
  • The world out of joint , Dresden 1932
  • Sense and nonsense of the stock exchange , Berlin 1933.
Reprint 2009, Mediaforum Verlag, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-9812870-0-4 .
  • History of the crisis , Leipzig / Vienna 1934
  • A history of animals , Hamburg 1952
  • Barnato - Lord of diamonds and gold , Gütersloh 1955
  • Eternal Zeus , Hamburg 1955
  • The greats of the world economy , Berlin 1955
  • A world history of sexuality , Hamburg 1956
  • The unveiling of the future , Hamburg 1958
  • A world history of the heart , Hamburg 1959
  • The miracle doctor from Mauritius or The Art of Rejuvenation , Munich, 1963
  • Marx, Markets and Mars , Zurich, 1964
  • Scandals that moved the world , Berlin, 1967.
  • A muzzle for Kant , manuscript, 1968. Published in an audio book version in Lucerne in 2005.

literature

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ^ Walter F. Peterson, The Berlin liberal press in exile: a history of the Pariser Tageblatt - Pariser Tageszeitung, 1933–1940., Tübingen 1987, p. 65
  2. ↑ Lieselotte Maas, Kurfürstendamm on the Champs-Elysées? The loss of reality and morality when attempting a daily newspaper in exile, a contribution in Exilforschung-Ein Internationales Jahrbuch Volume 3, Thoughts on Germany in Exile and other topics, Ed. Gesellschaft für Exilforschung, Munich 1985, p. 112ff.
  3. ^ Walter F. Peterson, The Berlin liberal press in exile: a history of the Pariser Tageblatt - Pariser Tageszeitung, 1933-1940 . 287 S., Tübingen 1987, p. 158
personal data
SURNAME Lewinsohn, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Graudenz
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1968
Place of death Madrid