Simon Kronberg

Simon Kronberg (born June 26, 1891 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died November 1, 1947 in Haifa ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Simon Kronberg came from a Jewish family. He grew up in Vienna. After attending elementary school and secondary school , he began to listen to lectures at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna in 1912 as a candidate for teaching secondary school . He broke off this course in 1913 and instead attended the educational institute for music and rhythm in Hellerau near Dresden , headed by Émile Jaques-Dalcroze . In 1914, Kronberg, who had already been declared unfit for military service in 1912 because of general weakness and lung damage , went to the University of Theater Arts of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus ; from December 1914 he completed training as a phonetics teacher. In 1915 he worked as a teacher for phonetics and rhythmic gymnastics at schools in Bonn . Kronberg then went to Berlin , where he was an employee of the magistrate from 1917 to 1920 . At the same time he began to publish literary texts, which u. a. appeared in Franz Pfemfert's " Aktion ". In 1921 Gustav Kiepenheuer published the prose volume "Chamlam", Kronberg's only independent book publication during his lifetime.

At the beginning of the 1920s, Kronberg belonged to the circle around Wolf Przygode and his magazine " Die Dichtung ". In addition to various activities (including in the wages office of a shoe factory and as an insurance director), he took singing lessons and from 1926 attended the Berlin Music Academy as a choir student. After he had been active in the Zionist movement since 1921 , especially in the Young Jewish Wandering League , Kronberg took part in preparatory courses for the move to Palestine after the transfer of power to the National Socialists in the German Reich in 1933 . In 1934 he emigrated as a youth leader with a group of young people made up of members of the Habonim Nora Chaluzi union via Trieste to Palestine.

Kronberg initially lived as a shoemaker in a kibbutz , but he also worked in choirs with adults and continued to write literary texts. In 1937 he moved to Haifa. He now lived as a freelance artist and organizer of choral events and community celebrations in German and Hebrew for newly immigrated German-speaking Jews.

Simon Kronberg was the author of an extensive literary work , strongly influenced by Zionism , consisting of narrative works, poems and plays ; for the most part, it was first published in a complete edition in the 1990s.

By and large, Kronberg's dramatic work has remained unplayed. He rehearsed some of his pieces himself with members of his kibbutz, in 1936 the choir play "Vienna 1936". The world premiere of Kronberg's drama "Nittel - Blinde Nacht" took place in December 2019 in Vienna at the TheaterArche .

Works

Chamlam , Potsdam 1921
The city , Potsdam 1924
Works , Munich
- 1. Poetry, prose , 1993
- 2. Drama , 1993

literature

Kronberg, Simon. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 14: Kest – Kulk. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-22694-2 pp. 364-369
Armin A. Wallas: Kronberg, Simon. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2., updated and exp. Aufl. Metzler, Stuttgart 2012 ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 309-311
Daniel Hoffmann : Religious Turbulence. Essays on the literary representation of the religious in the 20th century. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2019 (including an essay about Kronberg)

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personal data
SURNAME	Kronberg, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian-Jewish writer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 26, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH	November 1, 1947
Place of death	Haifa , Israel