Heinz Politzer

Heinz Politzer ( born December 31, 1910 in Vienna,. † July 31, 1978 in Berkeley / Cal ) was an Austrian - American writer and literary critic.

Life

Heinz Politzer studied in Vienna and Prague German and English. In 1938 he emigrated to Palestine (from 1941 in Jerusalem). From 1947 he lived in the United States, whose citizenship he assumed in 1952. There Politzer was formerly a professor at Oberlin College in Ohio (1952-1960), 1960-1978 then a professor of German language and literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

As a writer, he created poems, stories, novels, and Critical. As a literary scholar, he identified himself as an expert on Franz Kafka, Kafka made ​​in the United States known, concerned the publication of the first complete edition of Kafka's works in the U.S. and was closely connected to Max Brod.

Among the honors bestowed on him become himself finds the invitation, the festive opening speech musician Redeemed demonic to the Salzburg Festival to hold in 1967. In 1974, the City of Vienna Prize he was awarded for the Humanities.

Heinz Politzer's grave is located in St. Peter's Cemetery in Salzburg. At the time of his death he was survived by his wife, Jane Hinman Horner Politzer and four joint sons: Mike, Dave, Steve and Eric.

Publications (selection)

• Window in front of the firmament ( poems, 1937)
• Poems Jerusalem ( 1941)
• Franz Kafka (1962 )
• Franz Grillparzer or The abgrundige Biedermeier (1967 )
• The Silence of the Sirens ( 1968)
• John Urzidil ​​: Morning ride will be home. Bohemian Tales, ed. and epilogue by Politzer
• Oedipus (1974 )
• Freud and the Tragic (2003)