Doron Rabinovici
Doron Rabinovici ( born December 2, 1961 in Tel Aviv) lives as a writer, essayist and historian since 1964 in Vienna. His prose includes short stories, novels and essays.
Life
His father, David Rabinovici, managed in 1944 to get from Romania to Palestine. The mother, Shoshana, spent his childhood in Vilna survived the ghetto and extermination camps and reached Israel in the fifties. The story of their survival portrays Shoshana Rabinovici in her book " Thanks to my mother."
1964 moved the Father together with the family for professional reasons to Vienna. Since then, Doron Rabinovici lives in Austria. He studied at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 2000 with the historical work " instances of impotence. The Viennese Jewish community management 1938 to 1945 and their response to the Nazi persecution and extermination. " In Jewish publisher Suhrkamp the dissertation was entitled " instances of impotence: Vienna 1938-1945. The path to the Judenrat " published.
As a committed intellectual, he called in protest against a government of the FPÖ to the big demonstration "No to coalition with racism " in 2000. He is active in the Republican Club - New Austria against anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, and right-wing populism.
In 2013-14, he initiated and designed - together with Matthias Hartmann - the eyewitnesses production The Last Witness at the Burgtheater; production was related to the pogroms of November 1938, the 2013 jährten to the 75th times, gained high esteem by the public and press and became the Berlin Theatre Meeting 2014 invited:
"This is set in Vienna very carefully staged, waived great theater garnish, is telling in the best sense - and it has nothing of dutiful remembrance dislocation with dismay automatic. " The Last Witness " is a haunting, but also fragile (theater ) document. "
Doron Rabinovici is a member of Graz Writers meeting.
Works
- Papirnik. Stories Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1994, ISBN 3-518-11889-7
- Search for M. novel in twelve episodes. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1997, ISBN 3-518-40850- X
- Instances of impotence. Vienna from 1938 to 1945. The path to the Judenrat. Historical study of Jewish publishing house, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-633-54162-4 ( At the same time Diss phil. Vienna University 2000)
- Republic of Courage. Against the Verhaiderung, ( Published jointly with Robert Misik ), Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-746-67027-6
- Anyway. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2004 ISBN 3-518-45736-5
- The eternal resistance. About a disputed term Styria, 2008 ISBN 978-3-222-13239-1
- The jooloomooloo. Children's book with illustrations by Christina Gschwantner, Vienna 2008 ISBN 978-3-200-01231-8
- Elsewhere. Novel. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42175-8 ( Nominated for the German Book Prize 2010) In conversation with Tim Schomacker: "The text is under suspicion " ... A conversation about attacks on the memory and cats that look like Hitler. in concrete terms (magazine), # 1, January 2011, pp. 59f.