Sascha Simchowitz

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Sascha Simchowitz (actually Schachne Wulf Simchowitz born on September 1, 1864 in Minsk ; died on July 20, 1930 in Cologne ) was a Jewish doctor , dramaturge , writer and theater scholar .

Life

Sascha Simchowitz was born to Chaim Eliezer Simchowitz and Rifka Mirka Isserles. He first completed a medical degree and later studied literature, art history and philosophy in Königsberg , Jena and Berlin . After completing his university education and doctorate in Jena in 1889, he began a journalistic career in Berlin. In 1893 he moved to Cologne and opened his own practice. At the same time worked as a theater critic for the Rheinische Zeitung, among others . In 1904 Otto Purschian , the then director of the Cologne City Theaters , hired him as a dramaturge. Simchowitz held this position for almost 27 years until his death in 1930. Under his influence, the first programs of the United City Theaters of Cologne were created from the 1921/22 season, which went beyond the specification of content and cast. From the 1926/27 season, the illustrated sheets of the United City Theaters appeared , which also took up general and additional information and theater topics. Under his influence, the detailed Cologne theater magazine Die Tribüne appeared for the first time in 1928 .

In addition, Sascha Simchowitz was an expert on Russian and Russian-Jewish literature and taught literary history and theater studies from 1900 . From 1904 he received a teaching position for literary studies at the Cologne Commercial College . In 1920 he took over the new subject of theater studies at the University of Cologne and thus became one of the founders of theater studies in Germany. Sascha Simchowitz was formative in the Cologne theatrical landscape and was the first to bring a play by Bertolt Brecht to the Cologne stage. He published works on Richard Dehmel (1902), Maxim Gorki (1907), The Jewish-German Literature (1910) and Gustave Flaubert (1913). Sascha Simchowitz was also involved in the German Stage Members' Cooperative . Sascha Simchowitz was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Cologne-Bocklemünd (hall 19 no. 52) .

Family and remembrance

Sascha Simchowitz was with Betty Bathsheba Simchowitz (née Theodor) , née 1865, married. They had a son together, Hermann Simchowitz . Hermann Simchowitz (born 1900) also studied medicine, did his doctorate in Oxford and was an assistant doctor at the Central X-ray Institute of the Cologne University Clinic in 1932/33. He could after the seizure of power change at the University of Paris in 1934/35 and from 1935 to Glasgow the Nazis. From there he probably emigrated to the USA in 1937 and changed his last name to Sims . Most recently he lived in Geneva . Betty Bathsheba Simchowitz was unable to emigrate. She was deported with the 1st Cologne Transport III / 1 on June 15, 1942 to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where she was murdered on November 20, 1942. To commemorate them, the artist Gunter Demnig laid stumbling blocks at their long-time home address . The stumbling block for Hermann Simchowitz was donated by the current resident of Boisseréestraße 3, Rolly Brings .

  • Stumbling block for his wife Betty Bathsheba Simchowitz

  • Stumbling block for son Hermann Simchowitz

  • Sascha Simchowitz - grave at the Jewish cemetery Bocklemünd

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Note on the references to Simchowitz in culture, politics and the public: Festschrift for Jens Flemming , ed. Dagmar Bussiek, Kassel University Press, Kassel 2009
  2. ↑ Simchowitz at familytreemaker
  3. ^ Ulrich Soénius and Jürgen Wilhelm (eds.): Kölner Personen Lexikon . 1st edition. Greven, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , pp. 607 .
  4. ↑ a b report-k.de - Gymnasium Kreuzgasse: Two stumbling blocks for Richard Rosendahl and Gottfried Ballin , accessed on March 7, 2015
  5. ↑ kirche-koeln.de - The Jewish Cologne. Past and present - Barbara Becker-Jákli ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. , accessed March 7, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirche-koeln.de
  6. ↑ koeln-nachrichten.de - First city guide about Jewish Cologne ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. , accessed March 7, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / koeln-nachrichten.de
  7. ↑ Horst Matzerath , Elfi Pracht , Barbara Becker-Jákli (eds.): Jüdisches Schicksal in Köln 1918–1945 - Catalog for the exhibition of the Historical Archives of the City of Kön / NS Documentation Center (November 8, 1988 to January 22, 1989, in Cologne Stadtmuseum / Alte Wache), City of Cologne 1988, pages 97–98
  8. ^ Barbara Becker-Jákli : The Jewish cemetery in Cologne-Bocklemünd: history, architecture and biographies . emons, [Cologne] 2016, ISBN 978-3-95451-889-0 , p. 274-276 .
  9. ^ Google books: NN: Displaced German Scholars: A Guide to Academics in Peril in Nazi Germany in the 1930th , Borgo Press 1993
  10. ↑ Familytreemaker
  11. ^ Deportation list Transport III / 1 from Cologne to Theresienstadt on June 15, 1942; Sheet 30, entry 583
  12. ^ Deportation train Transport III / 1 from Cologne to Theresienstadt on June 15, 1942
  13. ^ NS-Doc: Entry in the memorial book for Bath-Scheba Simchowitz

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Simchowitz, Sascha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simchowitz, Schachne Wulf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Doctor, dramaturge, writer and theater scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Minsk
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1930
Place of death Cologne