Salcia Landmann

Salcia compatriot ( born November 18, 1911 in Zolkiew, Galicia, Austria - Hungary, † 16 May 2002 in St. Gallen, Switzerland ) was a Swiss writer, journalist and founding member of the PEN Club Liechtenstein.

Biography

Salcia countryman came from a Jewish family and was the daughter of Israel Passweg and Regina Passweg (born man of God ). In 1914 the family moved to Switzerland to St Gallen. After attending a grammar school Salcia compatriot studied in Berlin, first law and then philosophy at Nicolai Hartmann. In parallel they learned the profession of fashion illustrator. After 1933, she continued her studies in philosophy in Basel with Herman Schmalenbach and ended it in 1939 at the University of Zurich with a dissertation on phenomenology and ontology. In 1939 she married the philosopher Michael Landmann; In 1950 their son Valentin was born. In 1960 she published her first book, The Jewish joke, the reüssierte a bestseller and standard work and was translated into various languages. In 1978 she founded together with nineteen other writers the Liechtenstein PEN Club. In the 1990s she published multiple articles in the edited by Hans -Dietrich Sander State letters.

Work

Country man understood her work as a silent requiem for the lost Eastern Jewish culture world. Her first book, The Jewish joke appeared in 1960 in the preface of Marxism and sour cherries she described in 1979 how expanded the subject area. "My next books were the same thematic area. Yiddish language and literature, Jewish race, Kosher cuisine » The turn to political issues was carried out from their efforts to contribute to the preservation of the Jewish heritage: " Due to the intensive use of the so brutally destroyed world of East European Jews, I was now for any kind sensitized outside the Jewish area of ​​threat. "

The book Marxism and sour cherries for them was an attempt " to illustrate this rational difficult intelligible, perhaps irreparable and irreversible self-destruction tendency in the free part of the West of examples from politics, education, higher education, art, religion, psychology, economics, literature and Justice ».

Criticism

Torberg criticized Salcia country 's anthology The Jewish joke, accusing it of to convey anti-Semitic prejudices. Despite these criticisms, the book became a bestseller and in various editions and languages ​​in more than 800,000 copies (as of 1979) was sold.

Works

  • Phenomenology and ontology. Husserl, Scheler, Heidegger. Heitz, Leipzig 1939 ( dissertation, as " Salcia Passweg ")
  • The Jewish joke. Sociology and collection. Foreword by Carlo Schmid. Walter, Olten 1960; 14 revised. A. Patmos, Dusseldorf, 2006, ISBN 3-491-45039- X
  • Jewish jokes. Selected and introduced by Salcia compatriot. Walter, Olten 1962 expanded paperback edition: DTV, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-423-21017-6
  • Revision as: The kosher kitchen. Heyne, München 1976, ISBN 3-453-40181-6
  • Revision as: bitter almonds and raisins. Stories and recipes. Herbig, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7766-1306-8
  • Revision as: The Jewish cuisine. Recipes and stories. Kosmos, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-440-10859-7
  • Revision as: Jewish anecdotes. Afterword by Valentin Landmann. Huber, Frauenfeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-7193-1569-6
  • New, revised edition as: Who are the Jews? History and anthropology of a people. DTV, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-423-00913-6
  • 2nd edition as: Memories of Galicia. Limes, Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-8090-2208- X
  • Newly revised and expanded edition as: My Galicia. The land behind the Carpathians. Herbig, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7766-1921- X
  • Updated and expanded edition: Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-548-34597-2
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