Siegfried Trebitsch

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Siegfried Trebitsch (born December 22, 1868 in Vienna , † June 3, 1956 in Zurich ) was an Austrian playwright, poet, storyteller and translator.

Life

Siegfried Trebitsch was born in Vienna as the son of Heinrich Trebitsch and Malvine (née Singer). His birth entry also mentions the renaming from Trebitsch-Slámka to Trebitsch, but the background is unclear. After the father's death on April 17, 1872, the mother married her brother-in-law, the younger brother and silk merchant Leopold Trebitsch . Siegfried's professional career began in his silk trading office, where he stayed until 1903 and used these years for studies and long trips that took him through almost all of Europe and to North Africa. In the meantime he had introduced the Germans to the works of the French Georges Courteline and the Irish poet George Bernard Shaw through translations , and after unspeakable efforts he had achieved success. He took up residence in Vienna, where he had the representative " Villa Trebitsch " built, and married Princess Engalitscheff in Hungary in 1907. In the same year he received the honorary citizenship of the municipality of Wigstadtl in the Austrian Crown Land of Silesia, in 1920 the right of home in this municipality, which now belongs to Czechoslovakia, and at the same time the Czechoslovak citizenship. According to his sworn statements in an application for an American immigration visa from June 30, 1941, with interruptions due to trips abroad, he lived in Vienna until 1938 (that is, apparently until Austria was annexed to the German Reich), in Paris from 1938 to 1940 and from then on in Zurich, where he had lived from 1919, 1938 to 1939 and had lived continuously from the autumn of 1940. His Czechoslovak passport, issued in Vienna in 1938, mentions Vienna as his place of residence, which information was officially changed to "Paris" on May 6, 1938. In 1939 he was granted honorary French citizenship. When this naturalization was published in the Journal officiel de la République française on the same day, he was referred to as “demeurant à Paris”.

Siegfried Trebitsch was among others around Franz Werfel and Alma Mahler-Werfel , who dominated Viennese cultural life in the 1930s. In his novels and stories he characterized contemporary Austrian society. His remains rested (grave abandoned) in the Enzenbühl cemetery .

Trebitsch is likely to have made himself a year younger during his lifetime, his sixtieth birthday was celebrated in the press in 1929 and not, as would have been expected, in 1928. The wrong year of birth can still be found today.

estate

Carl Seelig was bequeathed an envelope "old letters" from Siegfried Trebitsch's estate as a legacy. According to a legacy notification from the Zurich District Court on February 5, 1957, Seelig could “publish it after it fell”. However, this legacy was challenged by Trebitsch's heirs and a legal dispute ensued, which is likely to have gone beyond the death of Carl Seelig in 1962. On May 1, 1964, the estate was handed over to Elio Fröhlich, the administrator of Carl Seelig's estate, and thus ended up in its current safe-keeping, the Zurich Central Library .

Works

  • Poems , 1889
  • Sawitri , 1890 (drama by Angelo De Gubernatis , arranged in verse)
  • Recovery , 1902
  • End of the world , 1903
  • The Smile Sold , 1905
  • The house on the slope , 1906
  • One last will , 1907
  • Daywalker , 1909
  • The general's first dream , 1910
  • A mother's son , 1911
  • Waves and Paths , 1913
  • Dangerous Years , 1913
  • Death and Love , 1914
  • Late light , 1918
  • The woman without Tuesday , 1919, filmed in 1920 by Eberhard Frowein
  • Mrs. Gitta's atonement , 1920
  • The burden of the blood , 1921
  • The Beloved , 1922
  • Renate Aldringen , 1929
  • Murder in the Fog , 1931
  • The Return of Diomedes , 1941
  • Chronicle of a Life (autobiography), 1951

literature

  • Trebitsch, Siegfried. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 20: Susm – Two. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22700-4 .
  • Thomas Mann : Letters to Jonas Lesser and Siegfried Trebitsch 1939-1954 (edited by Franz Zeder). Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt / Main 2006 (Thomas Mann Studies, Vol. 36)

Web links

Commons : Siegfried Trebitsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Austria, Lower Austria, Vienna, Matriken der Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, 1784-1911," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-LBKB-DX2?cc = 2028320 & wc = 4692-D6L% 3A344266801% 2C344266802% 2C344415301: 20 May 2014), Vienna (all districts)> birth books> birth register D 1867-1870 Apr.> image 111 of 227; Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Community of Vienna) Municipal and Provinical Archives of Vienna, Austria.
  2. ↑ ANNO, Neue Freie Presse, 1872-04-19, page 14. Retrieved on February 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Zurich Central Library - Maintaining HS legacies. Retrieved April 24, 2018 .
  4. ↑ The woman without Tuesday. In: filmportal.de . Deutsches Filminstitut , accessed on September 15, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Trebitsch, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian playwright, poet, storyteller and translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1956
Place of death Zurich