Werner Bukofzer

Werner Shimon Bukofzer (born April 22, 1903 in Berlin ; died October 15, 1985 in Zichron Ja'akow ) was a German-Israeli actor and writer.

Life

Werner Bukofzer's father was the businessman Heinrich Bukofzer (1845–1918), his mother Olga Blumenau was a victim of the Holocaust in 1943 in the Theresienstadt ghetto . His brother Richard was also murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp , his brother Ernst survived the persecution and at the end of his working life was the district court director in West Berlin .

Bukofzer graduated from Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin and attended Max Reinhardt's private drama school in 1924/25 . He had erratic occupations as an actor and reciter and earned his living doing commercial work. He belonged to the circle of friends of Oskar Loerke and Max Brod . After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he only had engagements in the Jüdischer Kulturbund and appeared in its "Theater of the Jewish Schools". He wrote features in the Israelitisches Familienblatt (Hamburg) and published individual poems.

In 1939 Bukofzer emigrated to Palestine and was imprisoned there for six months for illegal immigration and as an enemy alien . From 1940 he lived in Tel Aviv and got by with various odd jobs. After the founding of Israel in 1948, he found a job with the Ministry of Public Security .

Bukofzer also wrote poems and prose texts in German after 1940. He was Vice President of the Association of German-Language Authors in Israel. His short stories, poems and reports appeared in the Israel-Nachrichten and were also included in Austrian, Swiss and West German newspapers and magazines. He also worked for radio stations in the Federal Republic. He also wrote under the pseudonym "Werner Bridges".

Works (selection)

Thanks to Oskar Loerke . 1934
The Nameless Wanderer: A Selection of Poems from Palestine (1940 to 1948) . Berlin: Wedding-Verlag, 1949
Splitter: prose of the encounters. Considerations. Confessions. Memories. Hints. Dreams . Neuwied a. Rh.; Berlin: Luchterhand, 1968
David Rokeah : Poetry . Hebrew-German. Afterword by Hans Magnus Enzensberger . Translation Paul Celan , Werner Bukofzer and others. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1962

literature

Bukofzer, Werner. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 4: Brech-Carle. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-22684-5 , pp. 357-359.
Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 169f.

Web links

Literature by and about Werner Bukofzer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Ernst Bukofzer, see Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 50.

personal data
SURNAME	Bukofzer, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bukofzer, Werner Shimon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Israeli actor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 22, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	October 15, 1985
Place of death	Zichron Ya'akov

[1] Ernst Bukofzer, see Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 50.