Richard Behr-Hoffmann ( him. Richard Beer-Hofmann ; July 11, 1866 , Vienna , Austrian Empire - September 26, 1945 , New York , USA ) - Austrian novelist , playwright and poet .
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Biography
After the early death of Richard's mother, an aunt, who had houses in Brunn and Vienna (where Richard attended the Academic Gymnasium) had taken into his family, was taken to her family. After graduating from high school, he began studying law and in 1890 received a doctorate degree. In the same year, he met the writers Hugo von Hoffmannstal , Hermann Bar and Arthur Schnitzler , with whom he had a long friendship. In 1898, he married Paulina Anna Lissi, whom everyone called Paula; Three children were born in this marriage: Miriam, Naema and Gabriel.
Being well-to-do, Ber-Hoffman did not consider literary activity as a way of earning money and wrote for his own pleasure. In 1893, the Novellen collection was published (which included such novels as Das Kind and Camelias ), in 1897 the collection of poems Schlaflied für Mirjam was released, in 1900 the story Der Tod Georgs , and in 1904 the tragedy Der Graf von Charolais . Since 1906, Ber-Hoffmann worked on the dramatic cycle Die Historie von König David .
The First World War and the subsequent inflation undermined the well-being of Ber-Hoffmann. Forced to seek work, he became a director and worked on this until 1932 , working with, among others, Max Reinhardt . During this period, he also participated in a discussion on the Austrian national and linguistic identity, which was conducted at a high political level. Around 1933, he declared the homogeneous North German standard language:
The one who lives on the southern, Austrian land, meeting with the North German, either enters into a confrontation with a word use that is alien to him, or allows him to convince himself that it is not his original word usage that is right (...), or (...) in the soul to reject, but, nevertheless, being somewhat frightened by this “unnaturalness”, reconciles with North German word usage, remaining with a bad conscience [4] . |
In Germany, after the Nazis came to power, all the books of Ber-Hoffmann were included in the list of books to be burned .
Only a year after the Anschluss , on August 19, 1939 , Ber-Hoffmann managed to emigrate to Zurich , Switzerland , where his wife Paula died on October 30 . After that, Ber-Hoffman refused to work on the cycle of King David, which was therefore left unfinished, and went to New York . All his further work was devoted to the memory of his wife. In 1945, he received American citizenship and died the same year.
Ber-Hoffman’s works are stylistically related to modernism .
Ber-Hoffman repeatedly became the winner of literary awards: for example, in 1905 in Germany he was awarded the Schiller People's Prize, and in 1945 he was awarded the prize of the National Institute of Arts and Language of the United States. A year after his death, the Ber-Hoffman Society was founded in New York.
Ber-Hoffman’s literary heritage is stored at Leo Beck’s New York Institute.
In 1968, in Vienna's Floridsdorf (21st district), an alley (Beer-Hofmann-Gasse) was named after Ber-Hoffmann.
In 1999, the Visiting Ber Boffmann exhibition was held at the Jewish Museum of Vienna.
Works
- Novellen, 1893.
- Schlaflied für Mirjam, 1897.
- Der Tod Georgs, 1900.
- Der Graf von Charolais. Ein Trauerspiel, 1904.
- Gedenkrede auf Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, 1906.
- Die Historie von König David (unfinished cycle)
- Jaákobs Traum. Ein Vorspiel, 1918.
- Der junge David. Sieben Bilder, 1933.
- Vorspiel auf dem Theater zu König David, 1936.
- Verse, 1941.
- Paula. Ein Fragment, 1949.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118654756 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 3 BNF ID : 2011 open data platform .
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Ingo Reiffenstein. Deutsch in Österreich im 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert. // Dieter Langewiesche, Georg Schmidt. Deutschlandkonzepte von der Reformation bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg. - München: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2000. - ISBN 3-486-56454-4 . - S. 303.
Literature
- Berlin, Jeffrey B. Notes on an Unpublished Letter: Brandes, Beer-Hofmann, Schnitzler. // Text & Kontext. Zeitschrift für germanistische Literaturforschung in Skandinavien. - Kopenhagen / München: Wilhelm Fink, 1982. - S. 164-170.
- Berlin, Jeffrey B. The Unpublished Letters of Richard Beer-Hofmann to Hermann Bahr (with the unpublished letters between Beer-Hofmann and Theodor Herzl ). // Gelber, Mark H. (Hrsg.). Identity and Ethos: A Festschrift for Sol Liptzin on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday. - New York / Bern / Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1986. - S. 121—144.
- Berlin, Jeffrey B. The Friendship and Unpublished Correspondence between Thornton Wilder and Richard Beer-Hofmann. // Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift. - nf. - Bd. 40. - Heft 3. - 1990. - S. 304–323.
- Eberhardt, Sören; Goer, Charis (Hrsg.). Über Richard Beer-Hofmann. Rezeptionsdokumente aus 100 Jahren. - Paderborn: Igel, 1996 (= Kölner Arbeiten zur Jahrhundertwende. - Bd. 8; Literatur- und Medienwissenschaft, Bd. 46). - ISBN 978-3-89621-023-4 .
- Helmes, Günter; Schardt, Michael M .; Thomasberger, Andreas (Hrsg.). Große Richard Beer-Hofmann-Ausgabe. - 8 Bände. - Paderborn / Oldenburg: Igel, 1993–2002.
- Hoh, Daniel. Todeserfahrungen und Vitalisierungsstrategien im frühen Erzählwerk Richard Beer-Hofmanns. - Oldenburg: Igel, 2006.
- Scherer, Stefan. Richard Beer-Hofmann und die Wiener Moderne. - Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1993.
- Weidermann, Volker. Das Buch der Verbrannten Bücher. - Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2008. - ISBN 978-3-462-03962-7 . - S. 73-75.
Links
- Richard Behr-Hoffmann in the Literary Encyclopedia
- Behr-Hofmann Richard - Article from the Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia
- Richard Behr-Hoffmann on the Zentralen Verzeichnis digitalisierter Drucke (zvdd) (him) site
- Fritz Martini. Beer-Hofmann, Richard // Neue Deutsche Biographie. - Bd. 1. - 1953. - S. 737-738 (German)