Franz Schoenberner

Franz Schoen Berner ( born December 18, 1892 in Berlin, † April 11, 1970 in Teaneck / New Jersey, USA ) was a German editor and writer.

Life and work

Franz Schoenberner grew up in Berlin as the eleventh child of the pastor and superintendent Berlin Reinhold Schoenberner. From 1911 to 1914 he studied in Berlin and Munich, literature and art history. He was lecturer in Musarion Publishing and 1923-1925 editor of the foreign mail, the literary supplement of the Allgemeine Zeitung and weekly Süddeutsche Rundfunk. In 1927 he edited the important of Art Nouveau critical art journal youth to succeed Georg Hirth. He was an employee of Thomas Theodor Heine and from November 1929 to March 1933, the last editor of Simplicissimus before Hitler came to power. When it came to conflict with the Nazis in connection with the critical attitude Olaf Gulbranssons, he followed Heine on March 20, 1933 against Switzerland into exile in France and lived in Roquebrune- Cap- Martin on the southern French Riviera. During this time he published, among others, in Klaus Mann's exile magazine The collection, in The New Diary by Leopold Schwarzschild and the social democratic Zürcher Zeitung folk law.

After war broke out in 1939, he was like all located in France German immigrants interned as an "enemy alien ". At the detention center, the former brickworks Les Milles, near Toulon, he met so many artists and writers such as Max Ernst, Walter Hasenclever and Lion Feuchtwanger. In 1941, he fled with the help of the refugee organization Emergency Rescue Committee of Varian Fry over Marseille and Lisbon to New York.

There he published in 1946 the first volume of his memoirs Confessions of a European Intellectual (German title: "Confessions of an European intellectuals "). The second band, The Inside Story of an Outsider (German title: " Interior views of an outsider " ) appeared in 1949.

In 1951, he was brutally beaten in his apartment and spent the rest of his life a paraplegic in a wheelchair. His experiences and thoughts he processed in the third volume of his memoirs You Still Have Your Head: Excursions from Immobility (German title: " excursions from immobility ").

In 1965 Franz Schoenberner went on a trip to 32 years for the first time to Germany. He died in 1970 in Teaneck / New Jersey.

Works

  • Confessions of a European Intellectual. New York, MacMillan, 1946. German edition: Confessions of a European intellectuals. Icking and Munich, Kreisselmeier Publisher 1964
  • German edition: Interior views of an outsider. Icking and Munich, Kreisselmeier Publisher 1965.
  • German edition: excursions from immobility. Icking and Munich, Kreisselmeier Publisher 1966.

Letters

  • Erwin Panowsky. Correspondence 1910-1936 Edited by Dieter Wuttke. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Publisher 2001
  • The truth is often unlikely. Thomas Theodor Heine's letters to Franz Schoenberner from exile. Edited by Thomas Raff Göttingen: Wallenstein Verlag 2004
  • Franz Schoenberner / Hermann Kesten: correspondence in exile from 1933 to 1945. Edited by Frank Berninger. With a foreword by Gerhard Schoen Berner. Göttingen: Wallenstein Publishing 2008 ( ISBN 3-8353-0252-3 )
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