Walter Meckauer

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Walter Moritz Meckauer (born April 13, 1889 in Breslau ; † February 6, 1966 in Munich ) was a German-Jewish writer .

Life

Walter Meckauer was born in 1889 as the son of the Jewish businessman Ludwig Meckauer and his wife Linna, who was born in Hamburg. He studied philosophy and did his doctorate in Wroclaw. He stayed in China from 1910 to 1911 . From 1918 to 1922 he was head of the Silesian Ullstein editorial team, then dramaturge on several German theaters. He wrote numerous novels and plays . Persecuted as a Jew, Meckauer emigrated in 1933 via Switzerland to Positano , Italy , and in 1939 to France . In 1942 he went back to Switzerland and emigrated to the USA in 1947. In 1952, Meckauer returned to the Federal Republic.

In 1955 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class, for his services to German literature. Meckauer lived as a freelance writer in Munich until his death.

He was married to the writer Lotte Meckauer (1894–1971), their daughter Brigitte (1925–2014) to the beech forest survivor Rolf Kralovitz (1925–2015). The common family grave is located in the Munich North Cemetery .

In Oldenburg (Oldb.) And Nuremberg , Walter-Meckauer-Strasse, in the Munich district of Daglfing and in the district of Thiede of Salzgitter, the Walter-Meckauer-Weg is named after him.

Works (selection)

  • Intuitionism and its elements in Henri Bergson. A critical investigation. 1916 (Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the High Philosophical Faculty, Breslau).
  • Herr Eßwein and the smoke in front of the forest - A tragicomic picture book. Schlesische Buchdruck- + Verlaggesellschaft, Breslau 1921.
  • The books of the Emperor Wutai. Award winner Novel from the competition "Youth Prize German Narrators 1927". Preface by Oskar Loerke , German Book Association, Berlin 1928.
  • The stars are falling. Stiasny, Vienna a. a. 1949. (China novel).
  • Venus in the labyrinth. Hundt, Hattingen (Ruhr) 1953. (Autobiographical novel).
  • My father Oswald. Short story, with an afterword by Gerhart Pohl , Reclam, Stuttgart 1954.
  • Much water flowed down the stream. Bergstadt Verlag, Munich 1957. (Oder-Roman).
  • Alleys in strange cities - novel from my life. Bergstadt Verlag, Munich 1959.
  • The tree with the golden fruits. Bergstadtverlag Korn, Munich 1964.

literature

  • Carel ter Haar:  Meckauer, Walter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 583 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Wilhelm Sternfeld and Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933–1945. A bio bibliography. Lambert Schneider Verlag, Heidelberg 1970, p. 342 f.
  • Meckauer, Walter. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 16: Lewi – Mehr. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22696-0 , pp. 397-405.
  • Brigitte Meckauer: The time with my father. Cologne 1982.
  • Walter Boehlich: Walter Meckauer Medal: The wrong cartridge . In: Die Zeit Online . No. 50 , 1989 ( zeit.de - with a report on the criticism of the exile researcher Hans-Albert Walter of Meckauer's positions on Italian fascism).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wroclaw II registry office : birth register . No. 1815/1889.
  2. ^ Family burial site in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved July 1, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Meckauer, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meckauer, Walter Moritz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1966
Place of death Munich