Raoul Auernheimer

Raoul Auerheimer ( born April 15, 1876 in Vienna, † January 6, 1948 in Oakland, California ) was an Austrian jurist, journalist and writer from the heyday of Viennese arts pages. He stood long in the shadow of famous fellow writers who counted not uncommon to his friends.

Life and work

After graduating from law school the son of German merchant Johann Wilhelm Auerheimer and his Hungarian wife Charlotte (Jenny ) Büchler working first as a junior barrister at a Viennese court. At age 30, he married (1906 ) Irene Leopoldine Guttmann from Budapest. As a nephew of the recently deceased Theodor Herzl it is still offered a job as editor of the Neue Freie Presse in the same year. He dressed to 1933, he moults but within a short time to a respected columnist and critic. Besides, he also debuts with dramas - mostly comedies - and stories that do not give him but the big "breakthrough". Vienna is surrounded by courted masters like Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Stefan Zweig, Jakob Wassermann, Arthur Schnitzler. The latter judges according to Carsten Tergast over the works of his friend Auerheimer: "fine, hardworking, but frail ." From 1923 Auerheimer 's first President, then Vice- President of the Austrian PEN Club. Although he is neither a rich nor a " Bolshevik " tuned Jew, Auerheimer was arrested in March 1938 and deported in celebrities transport from Vienna to Dachau concentration camp. Soon afterwards, the Consul General of the United States intervened, Raymund mind, due to a petition of the writer Emil Ludwig Auer against heimer procrastination. Released in late 1938, early 1939 Auerheimer can emigrate with his family over Venice to New York. He died (1948 ) at the age of 71 years in Oakland, California. In 1960, the Viennese Auerheimer alley is named ( in the 22nd district ) after him. For Alfred Zohner the "fake " Vienna was nevertheless quite " under the spell of traditionalism "; best describes his work was amiable. His strength as a writer was lying in the field of novella and the comedy.

Works

  • Talent, comedy, 1900
  • Roses, we can not reach, short stories and sketches, 1901
  • Renée. Seven chapters of a woman's life, 1902
  • Playboys, novella, 1903
  • The lovers, short stories and sketches, 1904
  • The great passion, comedy, 1904
  • The Lady with the Mask, dialogues, 1905
  • The anxious Dodo, short stories, 1907
  • The you do not marry, short stories, 1908
  • The happiest time, comedy, 1909
  • The Lord God cast iron, short stories, 1911
  • The couple after their fashion, comedy, 1913
  • Laurenz Haller Prater journey, story, 1913
  • The allied powers, comedy, 1915
  • Heart in limbo. Short stories, 1916
  • The true face, short stories, 1916
  • The secretive story, 1918
  • The older Vienna, essay, 1919
  • Masked ball. Amendment in costume ", 1920
  • The capital, novel, 1923
  • Casanova in Vienna, comedy, 1924
  • Josef Kainz Memorial Book, Vienna 1924
  • The left and right hand, novel, 1927 ( re-issue: Graz 1985)
  • The Viennese woman in the mirror of centuries (ed. and foreword ), 1927
  • The fire bell, comedy, 1929
  • Evariste and Leander, narrative, 1931
  • Spirit and community, speeches, 1932
  • The dangerous moment. Adventure and transformations, short stories, 1932
  • Gottlieb Less serves justice, novel, 1934
  • Vienna. Image and destiny, 1938
  • Metternich. Statesman and gentleman, 1947 ( re-issues: Vienna 1973, Munich 1977, 1981)
  • Franz Grillparzer. The poet of Austria, 1948 ( re-issue: Vienna / Munich 1972)
  • The inn of lost time, Autobiography, 1948
  • Viennese gossip: six one-act plays, Vienna / Munich 1974
  • From our lost time. Autobiographical notes 1890 - 1938 ( with an afterword by Patricia Ann Andres ), Vienna 2004
  • Narrative is all about, be sworn to the truth. Annotated Edition ( Patricia Ann Andres ) of the German and English version of the previously unreleased KZ report " in the camp - Through Work to Freedom", Frankfurt / Main - Berlin 2010
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