Alexander Roda Roda

Alexander Roda Roda ( born April 13, 1872 in Drnowitz, Moravia as Sándor Friedrich Rosenfeld, † August 20 1945 in New York ) was an Austrian writer and journalist.

Life and work

Roda Roda grew up in Puszta Zdenci, today Grubišno Polje (Croatia ), on. There his father, Leopold Rosenfeld worked as an estate manager. The family was called unofficially Roda ( serb. / Croat. Storch for ) in order not to arouse the Jewish surname Rosenfeld offense. Together with his three years younger sister Marie ( Wed ), he wrote novels. The siblings agreed: " Above all, to stand as the author name. AT Roda - a sign that we are a dual being "

After the termination of studies in law at the University of Vienna, Roda Roda committed to a twelve-year military service and started it on October 1, 1893 at corps artillery regiment in Agram ( Zagreb). In 1894 he settled after Osijek (Osijek ) and put baptized catholic, here its Slavonian village stories emerged. In 1899, his family name was changed in a civil ceremony in Roda, 1906 in Roda.

In 1900, the first work by him in Simplicissimus published. After several disciplinary sanctions to Roda Roda had put 1901 as a first lieutenant in the reserve. He tightened his literary activity. In 1902, he worked a short, passionate love affair with the former star Adele Sandrock, who was ten years older than him, in the play Dana Petrovich.

He traveled through the Balkans, Italy and Spain. In 1904, he made ​​a stopover in Berlin and 1906 in Munich, where he returned in 1920. Due to various violations of the officer's honor Roda Roda in 1907 was released under denial of his rank in the army. From the bright red skirt lining of his uniform he was tailor a vest and wore it in almost all his numerous appearances on cabaret stages. It was his trademark for decades.

In 1909, the written together with Carl Roessler military comedy premiered The Feldherrnhügel be ridiculed in the military bigotry and senseless hierarchy.

On August 11, 1914 Roda Roda moved as a war correspondent for the Neue Freie Presse, and wrote for them until 1917, more than 700 posts. Also for appearing in Budapest since 1854 German -language newspaper Pester Lloyd, he wrote several articles. In the 1920s, Roda Roda had great success with humorous book publications. He stepped in cabarets on, undertook extensive ( guest ) trips and had other contacts with dozens of writers, actors, filmmakers, and other artists.

In 1932, on his 60th birthday Roda Roda, published a three -volume work output. On 10 May 1932 he was among the group of democratic intellectuals, the Carl von Ossietzky demonstrative accompanied at the commencement of his sentence in Berlin. After Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933 Roda Roda moved to Graz in 1938 and traveled a few days before the Anschluss of Austria to the German Reich in the Switzerland. On November 1, 1940, the Swiss authorities called on him to leave the country until the end of the year, and at the same time prevented him from any activity for Swiss media. Roda Roda emigrated to the United States. There, the efforts of the now septuagenarian a literary livelihood remained without much success.

On August 20, 1945 Roda Roda died aged 73 in New York from leukemia.

Family

He married in September 1905 in free marriage with Anna Elsbeth Baroness née von Zeppelin Leuckfeld of Weysen ( 1882-1960 ). Her daughter Dana (1909-1990) married in 1933 the writer Ulrich Becher. Their son Martin Roda cup ( b. 1944 ) lives as a writer in Basel.

Fame

His honorary dedicated grave ( Division 2, Ring 1, group 2, number 31) is located in Urnenhain the fire hall Simmering. In 1952 in Vienna Floridsdorf ( 21st district ), the Roda Roda alley named after him. In the city of Osijek in Croatia a bust Roda Roda stands in front of the library building in the Europska Avenija.

Roda Roda was also an avid chess player and often played in the Munich Chess Café Stefanie. Here he was inspired to his Schachhumoreske The pensioners Gambit.

His work consists largely of humorous and satirical stories and novels in which he lovingly - indulgent, the weaknesses and oddities of the monarchy and particularly of kuk Officer corps took a bead on.

Works

  • Marie Liebermann, -: The Wild Milan. A History of Slavonia from M. Roda Roda. Reissner, Dresden 1900, ANL.
  • A donkey jaw bone. Farces and purring, satires and parables. Munich, Langen 1906 OBV.
  • Nobles stories 1906
  • From bees, drones and barons ( before 1908 )
  • The liquor, tobacco smoke and the Cursed Love 1908
  • Cheaters, loafer, Rossetummler, Balkan Stories 1909
  • The Tickled Aesculapius 1910
  • - Carl Roessler: The Feldherrnhügel. A farce in three acts, 1910
  • Majesty Mimi operetta libretto, with Felix Dormann, music by Bruno Granichstaedten 1911
  • - Gustav Meyrink: Bubi 1912
  • - Gustav Meyrink: The Medical Council. A comedy in three acts. Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin ( and others) 1912 -. Fulltext online.
  • - Gustav Meyrink: The clock. A play in two acts. Ahn & Simrock, Berlin 1912 -. Fulltext online.
  • Russians hunt. Konegen, Vienna 1917 -. Fulltext online.
  • The Roseland. Bulgarian designers and design adaptations of stories and poems from the people treasure of the country. Enoch, Hamburg 1918. (Reprint Publisher PIC, Veliko Tarnovo 1995, ISBN 954-8258-58-7 ).
  • The seven passions 1921
  • Schwabylon or The storm -free bachelor 1921
  • Morning sun acres of land. Depictions 1922
  • A spring in America. Long, Munich 1924 -. Fulltext online.
  • - Andreas Szenes ( Illustr. ): Roda Roda's novel ( autobiography). Three masks Verlag, Munich 1925, OBV.
  • Slavic souls. New poets retold. Long, Munich 1924 -. Fulltext online.
  • The boy with the 13 fathers. A humorous novel by B. G. Nušić. Reissner, Dresden 1927 -. Fulltext online.
  • The Pandurs. Roman a Roman landscape in 1935

Films

Screenplay

Based Upon

TV

25 - part series of the ZDF with Peter Weck as Alexander Roda Roda

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