Zvi Rix

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Zvi Rix (born as Franz Rix April 18, 1909 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died January 11, 1981 in Rechovot , Israel ) was an Austrian-Israeli doctor and author .

Life

The son of Theodor Rix (1871–1952) and his wife Miriam geb. Hirsch (1882–1969) probably grew up with a sister who was five years younger than their parents. The father traded in ropes and from 1914 had a shop at Zollergasse 29. Since 1917, people have lived in Stiftgasse 27, which is also part of Vienna's VII district .

After receiving his doctorate in medicine from the University of Vienna in 1933, Franz Rix had his own apartment in the same house. Adolph Lehmann's general apartment indicator lists him there in 1934 and 1935 as "Rix Franz, MDr., Doctor" and from 1936 to 1938 as "Rix Franz, MDr., Spit.Arzt". Rix is ​​likely to have lost his position as a hospital doctor with the “ Anschluss of Austria ” at the latest , and he probably left Austria in the same year. In Lehmann 1939 only - and for the last time - "Rix Theodor, Kaufm., VII., Stiftg. 27 ”, now without his cord shop.

Renate Feikes' collection Emigration of Viennese Jewish Doctors from 1938 to the USA, especially to New York (Doctors. Crd. 1-314) notes: “Rix Franz Jude / E geb. 18.4. 1909, Vienna 7, Stiftgasse 27/19 Prom.Wien 1933 […] ”. It is unclear whether it actually reached the USA. In January 1941, "Franz Rix, Tel Aviv" was approved as a doctor by the British Mandate Administration for Palestine . From his surviving correspondence with the controversial psychoanalyst and chronology critic Immanuel Velikovsky , it can be inferred that he lived in Jerusalem by 1962 at the latest, now as Zvi Rix , and as a private scholar studied the psychological legacy of earlier catastrophes in human culture. At the end of the 1970s, he and his wife Melitta, nee. Gutwirth (1912–1998) moved to Rechovot, where he felt "very cut off" and lonely, not only because of the lack of libraries.

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By applying psychoanalytic methods to entire societies and mass movements, Rix tried to fathom the mechanisms by which past traumas are transmitted from generation to generation. He did not consider the forces of human history to be accidental, but rather open to interpretation. He was looking for evidence to support the theory that comet-induced destruction of civilizations around 3500 years ago had puzzled the minds of the Middle East and sparked destructiveness, religious excesses, and sexual deviations.

On April 12, 1964, he sent Velikovsky a first manuscript of his essay on the Sphinx. In the magazine Kronos influenced by Velikovsky's work . A Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis , Rix was initially listed as a "contributing editor" and from spring 1979 as an "associate editor". Rix and the Basel chronology critic Christoph Marx traveled together to a conference on the topic “Age in Chaos? How valid are Velikovsky's views on early history ”, which took place in Glasgow on April 7-8, 1978.

Rix fonts are considered difficult to read. He left behind about 25 unpublished manuscripts and an extensive archive. Christoph Marx took over his estate for safekeeping. It speaks for itself that - apart from 59 pages of messages on the Sphinx - nothing has been published yet.

"Zvi Rix, of all the cosmic heretics, went farthest into the exploration of correlations among ancient religious practices, sexuality, and commentary disasters. Marx took over his manuscripts from his widow, but the task of disentangling them and reformulating them into fairly conventional prose proved to be arduous. "

- Alfred de Grazia

Quote

A friend, Zvi Rix, who was born in 1909 in Vienna and died in 1981 in Rechovot / Israel, used to condense the reason for anti-Zionism in the sentence:

"Auschwitz us will never forgive the Germans!" ,

wrote Gunnar Heinsohn in 1988 in his book Was ist Antisemitismus? . Henryk M. Broder had in 1986 in his book The Eternal Anti-Semite , without naming a “clever Israeli” as the author. From 1997 this "clever Israeli" was mostly called, also by Broder himself, " Zvi Rex [sic!], Israeli psychoanalyst". Zvi Rix had “ read his Hobbes ”, wrote Heinsohn in 2005 in his book Sons and World Power , and quoted from the Leviathan : To have caused a person more harm than can be repaired [...] causes the perpetrator to hate the injured party.

However, others formulated this thought beforehand. Leo Katcher quoted Post Mortem in his report . The Jews in Germany - now , which he published in 1968 after a nine-month stay in Germany, the Jewish remigrant Hilde Walter as follows:

It seems that the Germans will never forgive us for Auschwitz. This is their disease and they are desperate for a cure. But they want it easy and painless. They refuse to go under the knife, that is, to face the past and their part in it.

Georg Stefan Troller wrote on Stefan Heyms 100th birthday in 2013:

Brasserie La Coupole,
102 Boulevard du Montparnasse
“They will never forgive us for what they did to us” was a bitter joke that I picked up somewhere and later put into the mouth of one of the outcasts in my filmic emigrant trilogy “Wohin und zurück” (Direction: Axel Corti ). Then came a letter of protest from the lawyer’s office of the emigrated author Hans Sahl , who claimed the sentence in a modified form. And also a phone call from my friend and fellow exile Stefan Heym with a similar difficulty. On his next visit to Paris - Axel was also present by chance - we met in the Café de la Coupole on Montparnasse. Stefan Heym magnanimously brushed his previous complaint from the table: “Jewish jokes are like the famous wandering puns of humorists. The actual author can no longer be identified. It's good if you don't have another prankster come into the parade while you are telling the story with the infamous sentence 'Actually, that's how it works.' "

In 1982 Christoph Buchwald published the following line in his "Notes on Walter Mehring's Reception after 1950" with the title Odysseus either to come home or to perish , which Mehring, who died in 1981 and who had also fled to the USA from Nazi Germany, wrote in 1948 Hans Sahl had written:

We will never be forgiven for not killing ourselves or allowing ourselves to be gassed a little.

Fonts

  • The Great Terror , in: Kronos: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis, Vol. I, No. 1, 1975, pp. 51-64
  • Notes on the Androgynous Comet , in: SIS Review. Journal of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies, Vol. I, No. 5, Summer 1977, pp. 17-19, online version
  • Communications on the Sphinx , edited by Angelika Müller, Podium Akademische Freiheit (PAF) , Basel 1983, (Contributions to the reconstruction of human and natural history after event analysis, volume 4)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ÚŘEDNÍ KNIHY kn 1718 page 168 badatelna.eu
  2. ↑ Adolph Lehmann's general housing indicator 1914, Volume 2, p. 1100 wienbibliothek.at ; Industrie-Compass 1931 p. 1374 books.google : " Rix Theodor, Spagate- [= twine] and rope goods defeat, VII. Zollergasse 29 (1907)"; Lehmann 1938, Volume 2, p. 335 wienbibliothek.at
  3. ↑ Adolph Lehmann's general housing indicator 1917, Volume 2, p. 1076 wienbibliothek.at
  4. ↑ 1934, Volume 1, p. 1101 wienbibliothek.at
  5. ↑ 1936, Volume 1, p. 1071 wienbibliothek.at
  6. ↑ 1938, Volume 1, p. 1058 wienbibliothek.at
  7. ↑ 1939, Volume 1, p. 1055 wienbibliothek.at
  8. ↑ p. 205 https://books.google.de/books?id=cHK7AAAAIAAJ&q=stiftgasse
  9. ↑ The Palestine Gazette No. 1078, February 13, 1941 , p. 142
  10. ^ The Rix-Velikovsky Correspondence 1962–1977 , Varchive.org , 1999
  11. ↑ New Year's greeting to Alfred de Grazia from January 9, 1980 and a letter from his wife Melitta from January 23, 1981
  12. ^ Alfred de Grazia: Cosmic Heretics , Metron, 1984, p. 116
  13. ^ Letter from Zvi Rix to Immanuel Velikovsky, April 12, 1964, reprint
  14. ↑ KRONOS - A Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis: Vol. I, No. 1. Spring 1975. Retrieved September 3, 2015 .
  15. ↑ KRONOS - A Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis: Vol. IV, No. 3 Spring 1979. Retrieved September 3, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Christoph Marx b. 1931: Christoph Marx
  17. ^ Alfred de Grazia: Cosmic Heretics , Metron, 1984, p. 87
  18. ↑ Ages in Chaos? How Valid are Velikovsky's Views on Ancient History? Proceedings of the Residential Weekend Conference, Glasgow, 7th to 9th April 1978 ( SIS Review VI: 1-3)
  19. ↑ Cosmic Heretics - Part 2. Accessed September 3, 2015 .
  20. ↑ Gunnar Heinsohn: What is anti-Semitism? , Eichborn, Frankfurt 1988, p. 115
  21. ↑ "And Auschwitz, once said a clever Israeli, 'Auschwitz the Germans will never forgive us'". Henryk M. Broder: The eternal anti-Semite . Chapter 5: The perpetrator as a probation officer or The Germans will never forgive the Jews of Auschwitz . First edition Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag Frankfurt / Main 1986, p. 130; Edition btb Berlin 2005, p. 158 books.google
  22. ^ Andrei S. Markovits, Simon Reich: The German Predicament. Memory and Power in the New Europe , 1997, p. 203 ; Henryk M. Broder: Half-time in the madhouse , in the Tagesspiegel of November 24, 1998; reprinted in Frank Schirrmacher (ed.): Die Walser-Bubis-Debatte , Suhrkamp-Verlag 1999, and Henryk M. Broder: Jedem das Seine , Ölbaum-Verlag 1999, there on p. 213 and p. 146 with the indication "Zvi Rex, Israeli Psychoanalyst".
  23. ↑ Gunnar Heinsohn: Sons and World Power . Orell-Füssli 2005. V. Youth bulges in transnational terror. P. 139. http://www.pseudology.org/Gallup/Heinsohn.pdf
  24. ^ Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes), from the English by Jutta Schlösser. Meiner Verlag, Hamburg 1996. P. 83 books.google . This wisdom coin, recognized by Thomas Hobbes as early as 1651, "Zvi Rix, Israeli from Vienna's Leopoldstadt and much more passionate researcher than doctor [...] - according to his widow Melitta - in the sentence: The Germans will never forgive us at Auschwitz." Gunnar Heinsohn: How to educate young people about anti-Semitism . Die Welt , January 22, 2013
  25. ↑ “It seems the Germans will never forgive us Auschwitz. That is their sickness and they desperately want a cure. But they want it to be easy, painless. They refuse to go under the knife by facing up to the past and their part in it. " Leo Katcher: Post Mortem. The Jews in Germany - now . Hamish Hamilton London 1968, p. 87 f. Snippet , Delacorte Press 1968 p. 89 snippet .
    DPs […] joked among themselves: "The Germans will never forgive us for what they did to us." (Footnote 112: Norbert Mühlen , The Return of Germany. A Tale of Two Countries , Chicago 1953, p. 154 f.) , it says in Atina Grossmann : trauma, Memory and Motherhood , in Archives of social history Volume 38 (1998), p 234 [1] [2] (in Richard Bessel , Dirk Schumann: after Life Death 2003, p 120 books. .google ). This cannot be found in the 1953 source given by Grossmann.
  26. ↑ Where to and Back Part 2: Santa Fé (1986 Nymphe d'Or ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this reference ( du Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo ); see. Alex Corti's Films Explore World War II's Impact by Annette Insdorf. The New York Times July 24, 1988 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tvfestival.com
  27. ↑ Reading sample from Therese Hörnigk (Ed.): I always got involved. Memories of Stefan Heym . Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg 2013, p. 156
  28. ↑ in the hearing https://books.google.de/books?id=lgpZAAAAMAAJ&q=odysseus
  29. ↑ P. 15: K. Morawietz: Die Horen . K. Morawietz, 1982 ( limited preview in Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Rix, Zvi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rix, Franz (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Israeli doctor and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1981
Place of death Rechovot , Israel