Schiller Marmorek
Schiller Jakob Saul Marmorek (born November 10, 1878 in Vienna , † December 2, 1943 in New York City ) was an Austrian lawyer and writer.
Life
Schiller Jakob Saul Marmorek was born as the son of the doctor and military doctor Josef and Friederike Marmorek (née Jakobsohn). He owes his first name to the fact that he was born on Friedrich Schiller's birthday . He was the youngest of four siblings. His oldest brother was the architect Oskar Marmorek , another brother the doctor and bacteriologist Alexander Marmorek . Both brothers were close to Theodor Herzl and were staunch Zionists .
After high school, he went to Paris to study law at the Sorbonne . In Paris, Alexander Marmorek had been working at the Pasteur Institute for years . In 1914 he became Dr. jur., had also dealt with the French Revolution and was interested in literary history. He married the middle school teacher Hilde Hoffmann. In 1934 she would be Otto Bauer's lover and in 1945 she would marry the social democratic journalist Jacques Hannak .
On his return to Vienna he became editor of the Arbeiter-Zeitung , where he published articles on historical and literary topics and theater reviews. In 1925 his novel The Great Man appeared in sequels in the Arbeiter-Zeitung. He translated works by Georges Soulié de Morant and Georges Clemenceau . In 1927 he became editor of Das Kleine Blatt under Julius Braunthal . Together with Fritz Brügel , Otto Erich Deutsch and Leopold Liegler , he published the quarterly magazine Die Freyung in 1930. In 1933 he became a board member of the Association of Socialist Writers .
After February 1934 he was involved in setting up the resistance organization Revolutionary Socialists (RS) and, alongside Jacques Hannak, Oscar Pollak and Otto Leichter, was a member of the "shadow committee". In late autumn 1934 he fled to Brno . Under the pseudonym Peter Roberts he wrote for magazines of the exiled Social Democratic Workers' Party . In 1938 he emigrated to Paris, where he was active in the diplomatic mission of the Austrian Socialists . In 1940 he fled with a visa organized by Josef Buttinger via Spain and Portugal to the USA , where he arrived on September 12, 1940. From February 1942 he was a member of the Austrian Labor Committee in New York and published in the Austrian Labor Information .
He died of a heart attack in early December 1943. Fritz Adler and Otto Leichter spoke at the funeral service in New York City on December 5 .
Works
- The tall man. Novel in sequels . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung , from August 30, 1925
Translations
- Georges Clemenceau: Jewish figures , Vienna 1925
- Georges Soulié de Morant: The Chinese Decameron , Vienna 1925
literature
- Siglinde Bolbecher , Konstantin Kaiser : Lexicon of Austrian exile literature. With the collaboration of Evelyn Adunka , Nina Jacket, Ulrike Oedl. Vienna 2000, p. 470. ISBN 3-216-30548-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Hanisch: The great illusionist: Otto Bauer (1881-1938). Vienna 2011. p. 39
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marmorek, Schiller |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marmorek, Schiller Jakob Saul (full name); Roberts, Peter (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian lawyer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 1943 |
| Place of death | New York City |