Valeriu Marcu

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Valeriu Marcu (born March 8, 1899 in Bucharest , † July 4, 1942 in New York City ) was a stateless writer and historian. He wrote most of his works in German.

Life

Marcu came from a Jewish family in Bukovina . When he was only 16 or 17 he visited Lenin in Zurich and offered him his work; he was a staunch communist at the time . Marcu had lived in Berlin since 1920, and his application for naturalization, which he had repeatedly made since 1929, was rejected by the Prussian authorities .

In 1926 he broke away from communism and turned to the Conservative Revolution . Ernst Jünger was enthusiastic about the biography of Marcus Scharnhorst and came into contact with him through Arnolt Bronnen . Marcu wrote for magazines that were banned by the National Socialists after 1933 , in the Weltbühne , in the Tages-Buch and in the literary world . He contributed to Klaus Mann's The Collection .

Marcu fled from the National Socialists to Switzerland and France. In 1941 he came to the USA with the help of the Emergency Rescue Committee ( Varian Fry ).

In a letter to Gottfried Treviranus , Marcu wrote on November 18, 1938:

“I was never interested in the Jewish question because I wasn't interested in it. I was always of the opinion, as a poet [Heinrich Heine] once wrote, that Judaism is not a religion but a misfortune. For me, the consistent religious continuation of Judaism is Catholicism. "

- Valeriu Marcu

Marcu was married to Eva Dorothea Gerson (1908-2004). The daughter Tu Miki (* 1934 in Nice) lives in Manhattan .

reception

In his autobiography The Few and the Many. Roman einer Zeit (1959, 1991) Hans Sahl probably meant Valeriu Marcu by “Ignazio Morton” .

"As usual with métèques , Marcu was a fanatic of assimilation, who saw his ideal in traditional Prussianism and viewed Jewish ancestry as an undeserved fate."

- Andrei Corbea-Hoișie

Works (selection)

Memorial plaque for the German and Austrian refugees in Sanary-sur-Mer , among them Valeriu Marcu
  • Imperialism and Peace, Predatory War and Revolution . Under the pseudonym Gracchus, Neuer Deutscher Verlag FL Halle & Co., Berlin 1924
  • The white and red armies . Verlag der Jugend-Internationale (St. Petersburg) 1921
  • Imperialism and Peace . Berlin 1924
  • Shadow of History: 15 European Profiles . Hoffmann and Campe, Berlin 1926
  • Wilhelm Liebknecht 1823-26: March 1926. A picture of the German labor movement . Berlin 1926
  • The rebel and democracy: on the crisis d. Socialism . E. LAub'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1927
  • Lenin, 30 years of Russia: With numerous, partly unpublished Images . Paul List, Leipzig 1927. After the war
  • The great command of Scharnhorst. The birth of a military power in Europe . Paul List, Leipzig 1928
  • The Birth of Nations: From Unity of Faith to Democracy of Money . Berlin 1930
  • Men and powers of the present . Gustaf Kiepenheuer, Berlin 1930
  • The expulsion of the Jews from Spain . Querido Verlag, Amsterdam 1934 ,. Reprinted after the war Matthes & Seitz, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-88221-795-2
  • Machiavelli: the school of power . Allert de Lange, Amsterdam 1937. Translations in various languages. After the war Matthes & Seitz, Munich 1994 ISBN 3-88221-795-2 , + S. Fischer paperback 1999
  • A head is more than four hundred larynxes . Collected essays : In the 60th year of Valeriu Marcu's death in memory. Edited by A. Corbea-Hoișie

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Valeriu Marcu  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Jünger: Complete Works, Volume 3. Diaries III: Radiation II Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 458-460.
  2. ^ Afterword, p. 282 f.
  3. ^ Afterword , p. 283
personal data
SURNAME Marcu, Valeriu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marcus, Valeriu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1942
Place of death New York City