Anton Kuh

Anton Kuh ( born July 12, 1890 in Vienna, † January 18, 1941 in New York ) was an Austrian- Jewish journalist, essayist, short story writer and speaker.

Family

Anton cow came from a family in Prague with literary disposition. His father Emil Kuh (1856-1912) was an editor and later editor of the Neues Wiener Tageblatt. His grandfather David cow (1819-1879) was a journalist in Prague.

Anton Kuh was the brother of Marianne cow ( 1894-1948 ). She was a friend of the psychoanalyst and anarchist Otto Gross; the relationship comes from the illegitimate daughter Sophie Templer-Kuh.

Life and work

Under his own name and under the pseudonym Anton Kuh Yorick has published texts satires and numerous short prose pieces in which he referred to in pacifism and democracy, critical, witty and perceptive grappled with his time. Cow appreciated early the paramount importance of Franz Kafka and advocated already in the 1920s and almost prophetic against the emerging zeitgeist right. Cow was known during his lifetime primarily as a performance artist. Kurt Tucholsky called him a " hands- plate", which does not seem quite accurate in the face of quite extensive published oeuvre.

One of the most famous Kuh impromptu speeches, The monkey Zarathustra, one held on 25 October 1925 at the Vienna Konzerthaus polemic against Karl Kraus is survived only by stenographic transcripts. In her cow attacked not only the actor -like vanity of the writer and reciter Kraus and its public contempt, but especially the elitist apolitical " Krausianertum " community of his followers:

" You walk in the labyrinth of his dark spiral spins as seminarians at the monastery cloisters. How cool it is there, how far away from Moscow and Berlin "

Two weeks before the "Anschluss " and thus the German invasion of Austria asked cow in his last Vienna impromptu speech:

"Are the Jews intelligent? " And appealed: " If so, you will save. It is high time! "

Anton Kuh was a master at obtaining advances for essays and commentaries, which he understood to elicit by some brilliant records from the editors. He never had the intent to deliver the promised item. On the contrary: He despised colleagues who advances abarbeiteten. He once said of Torberg:

"This is such a unkollegialer colleague. He takes advance and delivers on time. I've caught him a couple of times there. "

Anton Kuh did not love his last name. In vain he used to imagine with the words:

" Cow - all the jokes already made. "

To the charge of a friend, " Why are you always so aggressive, Anton? " he gave his philosophy price:

"If a cow is, and wants to be taken seriously, he must do so, as if he were a bull. "

Cow lived first in Prague and Vienna, then moved in 1928 to Berlin, because he

"Dear, in Berlin Viennese rather live in Vienna under Kremsern ' wanted '

From the Nazis reviled as " Kulturbolschewik " he had to leave Germany in 1933. After the German invasion of Austria in 1938, he emigrated to the United States. His works have been rediscovered in the 1960s. At the time of Viennese literary scholar Walter Schübler Kuh prepares Biography and complete works.

In the year 2002 ( 3rd District ) Anton Cow Lane was named after him in Vienna highway.

Quote

"Why objectively, if it can be done in person. "

Works

First editions

• Jews and German, Berlin 1921 ( digitized )
• Downstream of Goethe. Essays in sayings, Leipzig, Vienna, Zurich 1922
• Borne of the contemporary. Introduced and edited by Anton Kuh A selection, Leipzig and Vienna 1922
• The ape of Zarathustra, 1925
• The immortal Austrians, Munich 1931

Collection expenses

• Air lines. Feature articles, essays and journalism, ed. by Ruth Greuner, Löcker Verlag, Wien 1981 - ISBN 3-85409-022-6
• Zeitgeist literary cafe. Feature articles, essays and journalism, new collection, ed. by Ulrike Lehner, Löcker Verlag, Wien 1985 - ISBN 3-85409-081-1
• Jews and German ed. and with an introduction by Andreas B. Kilcher. Löcker Verlag Wien 2003 - ISBN 3-85409-369-1
• Now we can go to sleep! Between Vienna and Berlin. Edited and with an afterword by Walter Schübler. Metro -Verlag, Vienna, 2012. ISBN 978-3-99300-069-1. ( Four dozen previously unpublished texts, Gregor Auenhammer in: daily Der Standard, Vienna 26 May, 2012, Supplement album, page A11)

Audiobooks

• Helmut Qualtinger: Austrian reading book - Helmut Qualtinger reads Anton Kuh, Preiser Records, Vienna, LP 1962 / CD 1988
• Helmut Qualtinger: Helmut Qualtinger Reads Anton Kuh Episode 2, Preiser Records, Vienna, LP 1981 / CD 1999
• Stephan Paryla - Raky reads Anton Kuh: The Immortal Austrians ISBN 3-900277-19-2, ISBN 978-3-900277-19-2