Robert Adam (writer)

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Robert Adam Pollak (born April 20, 1877 in Vienna ; died October 16, 1961 in Baden near Vienna ) was an Austrian writer and lawyer.

Life

Robert Adam was born in Vienna as the son of the seating and table furniture manufacturer Emil Pollak, who came from Prague, and his wife Sidonie, née May (died April 7, 1928 at the age of 77). In grammar school he was friends with Ignaz Seipel . On January 29, 1900, he resigned from the Jewish community. He married Mimi Maria Johanna Walpurga Patzner on November 15, 1911 in Brno (* Troppau October 6, 1889, † March 27, 1948 Vienna). He had a child with her, who later became a lawyer Viktor Franz Patzner (* Vienna, September 13, 1916; † December 21, 1982 ibid.).

As a lawyer, he worked as a judge in Zistersdorf , at the district courts of Floridsdorf and Josefstadt, and made it up to the position of Vice-President of the Regional Court for Civil Law Matters in Vienna before he had to retire on March 15, 1938 due to his Jewish descent. He survived the war in Vienna as a "privileged Jew". In 1945 he worked again in the civil service, on February 23, 1949 he retired. Little has been published of his literary work. His preoccupation with Arab culture is significant, ranging from an adaptation of a story from the Arabian Nights ( The Story of Alî ibn Bekkâr, written in 1904 ) to the posthumously published translation of the Shāhnāme . In 1931 his drama Margot and the juvenile court was premiered at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt , the previously announced performance at the Burgtheater under Anton Wildgans did not take place.

As a writer he was promoted by Arthur Schnitzler and Karl Kraus . He was in contact with Alfred Adler , Hans Kelsen and Albert Steinrück . His estate can now be found in the Austrian National Library .

In 2020 the correspondence with Schnitzler was published.

Works (selection)

  • Robert Adam: poem . In: Musenalmanach der Hochschuler Vienna, 1901.
  • Robert Adam: In aeternum. Vienna: CW Stern 1905.
  • Robert Adam: Proverbs. In: Die Fackel , H. 246/247, March 12, 1908, pp. 25-26.
  • Robert Adam: The Story of Alî ibn Bekkâr with Shams an-Nahâr. A comedy. Vienna: Hugo Heller 1909.
    • Review: Albert Krapp (Kamen): Of Kings and Fools. In: Das literäre Echo , Vol. 12 (1909/1910), Sp. 850–858. ( online )
  • Robert Adam Pollak: About legal principles. An analytical study. In: Archive for Legal and Economic Philosophy , vol. 13, no. 2, 1919, pp. 110–135. ( online ).
  • Margot and the juvenile court, drama, first performance on May 27, 1931, Schauspielhaus Frankfurt.
  • Firdausi , Abu'l-Qasem: Shahname. The book of kings . 4 volumes. Editor Nosratollah Rastegar, translation Robert Adam Pollak. Introduction by Florian Schwarz. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag 2018.
  • Robert Adam: The whore. (Third scene from the scene series »The Stranger«). In: Die Bühne, Heft 303, S. 50. ( Online )

literature

  • [OV:] With the latest Burgtheater author. [Interview with Robert Adam]. In: The Hour, April 12, 1931, p. 3. ( Online , with photography)
  • Martin Anton Müller: Visits to Arthur Schnitzler. Private records from Albert Ehrenstein , Victor Klemperer, and Robert Adam. In: Hofmannsthal-Jahrbuch zur Europäische Moderne, H. 27 (2019), pp. 131–163.
  • Florian Schwarz: As an introduction. In: Abu'l-Qasem Firdausi: Shahname. The book of kings. 4 volumes. Editor Nosratollah Rastegar, translation Robert Adam Pollak. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag 2018, VI – XIX.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The most extensive account of his life so far can be found in the introduction by Florian Schwarz, see literature.
  2. ^ ANNO, Neue Freie Presse, 1928-04-11, page 19. Retrieved on December 28, 2018 .
  3. ↑ ÖNB Cod.ser. 52.265, fol. 74/75.
  4. ^ "Austria, Lower Austria, Vienna, registers of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, 1784-1911," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9B24-46S?cc=2028320&wc = 4692-D6Y% 3A344266801% 2C344266802% 2C344428801: 20 May 2014), Vienna (all districts)> birth books> birth register F 1877 March-Dec. > image 18 of 109; Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Community of Vienna) Municipal and Provinical Archives of Vienna, Austria.
  5. ↑ ÖNB Cod.ser. 52.267, p. 148.
  6. ↑ ÖNB Ser. 52.263, 234.
personal data
SURNAME Adam, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pollak, Robert Adam (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1961
Place of death Baden near Vienna