Willy Haas

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Willy Haas (born June 7, 1891 in Prague , † September 4, 1973 in Hamburg ) was a German publicist , film critic and screenwriter .

Life

Willy Haas - son of a Jewish lawyer - studied law and was friends with Franz Werfel , Paul Kornfeld and Johannes Urzidil at a young age and had personal contact with Franz Kafka and Max Brod , which aroused his lasting interest in literature. Ernst Polak , Milena Jesenská's husband , also belonged to this group, who met at Café Arco in Prague .

From 1911 to 1912 the publishing house of the Johann Gottfried Herder Association in Prague published a year of Herder papers , edited by Willy Haas and Norbert Eisler. Otto Pick worked on the last two issues (No. 4 and 5) . Many literary friends published for the first time in the Herder-Blätter , and Willy Haas wrote essays for them himself.

After the First World War , Haas went to Berlin , where, in addition to his editorial work, he worked as a screenwriter ( Die joudlose Gasse ) and film critic (especially for the Film-Kurier ). Together with Ernst Rowohlt , he founded the weekly newspaper Die literäre Welt in 1925 .

Grave of Willy Haas and Herta Haas, Ohlsdorf cemetery

When his Berlin apartment was searched several times in 1933, he emigrated to Prague, where he worked as a newspaper editor, including for the Prague press . The literary magazine Welt im Wort , which he himself founded in Prague, soon had to cease its publication for financial reasons. After the German occupation of Prague in 1939, he first went to Italy and from there to India , where he worked as a screenwriter for at least two Indian films by Mohan Bhavnani . He also earned a regular income working as a censor for the British Army in India. After the end of the war he returned to Germany in 1948 and lived in Hamburg. There he was active for Die Welt and Welt am Sonntag as well as for other magazines, newspapers and radio. With his work for Die Welt and Die Welt am Sonntag he wanted to help "restore the unity of German literature". From 1998, Die Welt continued the tradition of the weekly literary newspaper of the Weimar Republic with the Saturday supplement Die literäre Welt .

Haas was married to the translator Jarmila Ambrozova from 1919 to 1921, to Hanna Waldeck (one son, * 1925) from 1924 to 1936 and to Herta Doctor from 1947 onwards. Willy Haas and his wife Herta were buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square AD 5 (southwest of chapel 8).

Awards

Aftermath

Filmography

Works

  • Herder-Blätter , JG Herder-Vereinigung zu Prague, 1911. Facsimile edition commissioned by the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg on the occasion of Willy Haas' 70th birthday (June 7, 1961), 1962
  • Playing with fire. Prose writings. Die Schmiede publishing house , Berlin 1923.
  • Shape the time. Kiepenheuer, Berlin 1930.
  • The literary world. Memories. List, Munich 1957, unabridged edition, as: The literary world. Memoirs of life (= Fischer pocket books 5607). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-596-25607-0 .
  • with Rolf Italiaander: Berliner Cocktail , contributions by Hedda Adlon [u. a.]. Zscolnay, Hamburg 1957, 1959, 1965, 1967, 1974, ISBN 3-552-02633-9 .
  • Bert Brecht (= heads of the 20th century. Volume 7, ISSN  0454-1383 ). Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1958; 6th edition. ibid 1989, ISBN 3-7678-0764-5 .
  • Fragments of a life. Eckhardt, Hommerich et al. 1960.
  • Shape. Essays on literature and society. Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin et al. 1962.
  • Nobel Prize in Literature. A chapter on world literature of the 20th century (= Forum imaginum. Volume 1, ZDB -ID 503597-1 ). Moos, Heidelberg 1962; 2nd, expanded edition with bibliographical appendix. Moos, Munich 1963.
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal (= heads of the 20th century. Volume 34). Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1964.
  • About the foreigners - four secular edification speeches , Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg, 1966

literature

  • Rolf Italiaander (Ed.), Rosemarie Clausen (Photo): Herder sheets. Facsimile edition for Willy Haas' 70th birthday. Freie Akademie der Künste, Hamburg 1962, DNB 451967658 (reprint of the magazine published by Willy Haas and Norbert Eisler in Prague, April 1911 to October 1912, see ZDB ID 281688-x ).
  • HMB: Willy Haas - film critic, screenwriter. In: Hans-Michael Bock (Ed.): CineGraph. Lexicon for German-language films. Loose-leaf edition, delivery 3: G - J , edition text + kritik, Munich 1985, DNB 840832729 .
  • Luisa Valentini: Willy Haas. The witness of an epoch (= European university publications. Series 1: German language and literature. Volume 909). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1986, ISBN 3-8204-9307-7 .
  • Pascale Avenel: Willy Haas et le périodique “The literary world” 1925–1933. Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, Villeneuve d'Ascq 1997, ISBN 2-284-00204-8 (also dissertation University of Lille 1995).
  • Christoph von Ungern-Sternberg: Haas, Willy. In: Kirsten Hiensohn (ed.): The Jewish Hamburg. A historical reference work. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, p. 102, ISBN 3-8353-0004-0 .
  • Christoph von Ungern-Sternberg: Willy Haas 1891–1973. "A great director of literature". edition text + kritik, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-88377-858-7 (also dissertation Humboldt University Berlin 2006).
  • Christina Prüver : Willy Haas and the feature section of the daily newspaper “Die Welt” (= Epistemata. Series Literary Studies , Volume 614). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3680-4 (also dissertation Humboldt University Berlin 2007).
  • Jyoti Sabharwal: Willy Haas: the encounter with India as a place of exile (= European university publications , series 1, German language and literature, volume 2039). PL Academic Research, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-64107-1 (Dissertation Jawaharlal Nehru University , New Delhi 2011, 141 pages).
  • Kay Less : 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 225 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf M. Wlaschek: Jews in Böhmen. Contributions to the history of European Jewry in the 19th and 20th centuries. (= Publications of the Collegium Carolinum. Vol. 66). 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56283-5 , p. 41.
  2. ↑ Marc Reichwein: Thank you, Willy Haas: How the “Literary World” invented the bestseller Die Welt , October 9, 2015.
  3. ↑ Chandrima S. Bhattacharya: Hitler hand in advance of Hindi cinema. In: The Telegraph , January 16, 2006 (article about Germans in Indian film).
  4. ↑ Prem Nagar - Screenplay: Willy Haas .
  5. ↑ Quoted from Christoph von Ungern-Sternberg: Haas, Willy. In: Kirsten Hiensohn (ed.): The Jewish Hamburg. 2006, p. 102.
  6. ↑ Celebrity Graves
  7. ^ Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main
  8. ^ Publisher's text by Peter Lang Verlag, Bern / Frankfurt am Main

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personal data
SURNAME Haas, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 1973
Place of death Hamburg