Willy Haas

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

Life

Willy Haas - son of a Jewish lawyer - studied law and was a friend of Franz Werfel, Paul Kornfeld and John Urzidil ​​at a young age and had personal dealings with Franz Kafka and Max Brod, whereby its sustainable became interested in literature. This circle, which met in Prague Café Arco, also scored Ernst Polak, husband of Milena Jesenská.

From 1911 to 1912 was produced in Prague in the publishing house of Johann Gottfried Herder Association a year of Herder- leaves, whose editor Willy Haas and Norbert were Eisler. On the last two booklets (No. 4 and 5) Otto Pick has cooperated. In the Herder leaves many literary friends have first published and Willy Haas self-written essays.

After the First World War Haas went to Berlin, where he ( The Joyless Street ) and film critic worked (especially for the Film-Kurier ) next to the editorial work as a screenwriter. Together with Rowohlt 1925 he founded the weekly newspaper The literary world.

When in 1933 his Berlin home was searched several times, he emigrated to Prague, where he worked as a newspaper editor, among other things, for the Prague press. Founded by himself in Prague literary magazine world in the word had to cease publication again soon 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 scriptwriter for at least two Indian films of Mohan Bhavnani. A regular income he earned in addition to working as a censor for the British Army in India. After the war he returned to Germany in 1948 and lived in Hamburg. There he was active among other things for the world and the world on Sunday as well as other magazines, newspapers and the radio. With his work for the world and the world on Sunday he wanted to help " restore the unity of the German literature ." From 1998 began the world with the Saturday supplement The literary world continues the tradition of the literary weekly paper of the Weimar Republic.

Haas was 1919 to 1921 with the translator Jarmila Ambrožova, from 1924 to 1936 with Hanna Waldeck (a son, born 1925 ), married in 1947 with Herta Doctor.

Awards

Aftereffect

• Franz Werfel put his childhood friend Willy Haas in his last novel Star of the Unborn with the figure of " BH" a literary monument.
• At Haas ' memory gives the world since 1999 the WORLD Prize for Literature.
• When CineFest - International Festival of German Film Heritage is an important publication since 2004, awarded annually to the German-language film or a film in Germany in the categories of book and DVD by an international jury of Willy Haas Award for ever.

Filmography

Works

• Playing with fire. Prose writings. Publisher The Forge, Berlin, 1923.
• Figures of the time. Kiepenheuer, Berlin 1930.
• The literary world. Memories. List, Munich 1957 ( Unabridged as: . Literary World memoirs ( = Fischer paperbacks 5607 ) Fischer -Taschenbuch -Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-596-25607-0. ).
• Bert Brecht ( = heads of the XX. Century. Vol. 7, ZDB - ID 0454-1383 ). Colloquium Verlag, Berlin, 1958 ( 6th edition. Ibid, 1989, ISBN 3-7678-0764-5 ).
• Fragments of a life. Eckhardt, Hommerich et al 1960.
• Figures. Essays on Literature and Society. Propylaea -Verlag, Berlin et al 1962.
• Nobel Laureates in Literature. A chapter of world literature of the 20th century ( = Forum Imaginum. Vol. 1, ZDB - ID 503597-1 ). Moss, Heidelberg, 1962 ( 2nd, expanded edition with bibliographical appendix. Moos, Munich 1963).
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal ( = heads of the XX. Century. Vol. 34). Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1964.