Robert Flinker

Robert Flinker (born July 16, 1906 in Wischnitz / Bukowina , † July 15, 1945 in Bucharest ) was a German-speaking doctor and writer .

Life

Robert Flinker came from a Jewish family. He attended high school in Czernowitz and studied later at the University of Vienna Medical . In 1930 he received his doctorate in medicine. From 1930 to 1932 he worked in Germany and from 1932 to 1936 in Czernowitz as a neurologist . He then stayed in Switzerland for study purposes , where he worked as a doctor at the Neurological Clinic in Zurich until 1940 . After his return to Chernivtsi he was the chief physician at the mental hospital there . During the years from 1941 to 1944, when Bukovina was conquered by German troops at the beginning of the war against the Soviet Union and then under Romanian administration, the situation for the Jewish population was marked by the persecution and deportation of Jews . Robert Flinker was in hiding during this time; Only after the Wehrmacht had withdrawn in 1944 did he work again as a doctor, now as a senior doctor at the Bucharest Central Hospital. A year later he committed from lovelorn suicide .

In addition to his main job as a doctor, Robert Flinker also worked as a writer . He wrote novels , short stories and poems. While his poetry is strongly based on Hermann Hesse's , his prose works are remarkably similar to Franz Kafka's style . Robert Flinker's works were only published posthumously by his brother, the Germanist Ernst Maria Flinker.

Works

• The psychology and psychopathology of hysteria . Leipzig 1938.
• Purgatory . Bucharest 1968.
• The fall . Bucharest 1970.

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Flinker in the catalog of the German National Library
• http://www.rimbaud.de/bukowina.html#3031fegefeuer