Joseph Kalmer

Josef Kalmer, actually Josef Kalmus, Joseph Kalmer ( born August 17, 1898 in Nehrybce; † July 9, 1959 in Vienna) was an Austrian journalist and writer.

Life

Josef Kalmer was established in 1898 in the Galician Nehrybce ( Nehrybka ) born. He attended school in Chernivtsi and moved in 1915 to the " K. K. Sophia High School " in Vienna. At the outbreak of World War I, he volunteered for military service.

In the interwar period Kalmer began his literary activity. He authored 1919-1928 poems, essays and translations (such as " boom ", " New Earth ", " Menorah ", " Renaissance ", " The Wage " and "The Tent "). From the 1920s he was responsible for the series phalanx. Library for the International of the Spirit in the publishing of the Wiener Werkstätte Graphic and was for the last two editions of " Ver" as well as from 1921 to 1925 for the Hungarian Lajos Kassák avant-garde magazine "Ma" ( in their Viennese exile years ) responsible editor. He also worked as a literary agent.

After the German invasion of Austria, he was arrested by the Gestapo and was locked up in an improvised prison in Brigittenauer high school in the Karajan, Vienna. As a result Kalmer was in August 1938 in Czechoslovakia, and in 1939 fled to the United Kingdom, where he worked in the press agency of the Ministry of Information until 1951. He has written articles for various magazines such as exile " newspaper " and " time mirror ".

Josef Kalmer died on 9 July 1959 in Vienna.

Works

• Kalmer, Josef: flight through the countryside. Vienna: Tooth & Diamond 1927
• European poetry of the present 1900-1925 in adaptations. Edited and trans. by Josef Kalmer, Vienna: Tooth & Diamond 1927
• Huyn, Ludwig Graf / Kalmer, Josef: Abyssinia. Africa unrest stove, Salzburg: mountains Publisher 1935 ( translated into several languages)