PERSONS - register and limited information
SOMA MORGENSTERNs *FRINDS, ACQUAINTANCES, CONTACTS + (in italics:) personally unknown persons mentioned in the oeuvre of SM.
*FRIENDS, as far they are identiefied as such, are presented seperately on the pages FRIENDS .
SOURCES – EXPLANATION OF THE REFERENCES:
[ ] Reference in SM´s autobiographic books with indication of page numbers in the German publication: Alban [Berg] und seine Idole; Joseph [Roth]s Flucht und Ende; In einer anderen [Zeit]; [KBT]: Kritiken, Berichte, Tagebücher. [Flucht] in Frankreich; [Blutsäule-Kommentar]: Morgenstern's afterword of the Hebrew edition of "The Third Pillar" is presented in the German edition of 1977 ("Blutsäule") on page 7-16 containing autobigraphical details.
(Indications between parentheses ( ) refer to texts of the editor Ingolf Schultes, his foot notes or afterword.)oder Nachwort ).
{DEA Number of received letters / used language(s) / location(s) letters sent / year(s)} : received correspondence in SM´s descendant’s estate in the Deutsche ExilArchiv (German exile archive in Frankfurt).
( ) Reference in other (secondary) sources. (RK) = Raphaela Kitzmantel: Eine Überfülle an Gegenwart – Soma Morgenstern biography
Friedrich ADLER
Physician, friend of SM and J. Roth; was (in 1939) also in exile in Paris.
[Roth 248f, 255 ]
Victor ADLER (1852-1918)
politician, leader of the Austrian labour movement
[Berg 346, Roth 40]
Salomon ADLER-RUDEL (1894 Czernowitz – 1975 Jerusalem)
Social worker: 1915-18 in Vienna, 1919-1934 in Berlin. As from 1945 in Palestine/Israel. 1958-75 director of the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem.
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Jerusalem / 1972}
*Theodor ADORNO >>FRIENDS
[Roth 76, (304), (311); Berg 24, 33, 117ff, 136f, 162, 168, 187,203, 325f, 349f, 365f , (328); KBT 506,510,527f, 531, 533f, 536ff, 655]
{DEA}
Karol ADWENTOWICZ (1871-1958)
Polish actor and director
[Berg 346]
Endre ADY (1877-1919)
Hungarian poet
[Berg 346]
Samuel Joseph AGNON (1880 Buczacz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary – 1970 near Tel Aviv)
Writer, lived at first in Lemberg, Krakau and Vienna; from 1908 in Palestine; from 1913 in Vienna, Berlin, Bad Homburg; from 1924 in Jerusalem. 1966 Nobel price for literature.
SM writes a letter to Agnon in Jerusalem with the request to recommend the publicaton of his novel "Die Blutsäule - The Third Pillar" in Israel. Agnon answers in March 1956 :
[...] I have read your work with great interest. Apart from his literary value it appears to me adequate to be published widely in the languages of the peoples. However, you have to know that I don't have any influence on the local publishers. Even at my own publisher my advice does not count. [...] (translated from German)
There is no information if the family Czaczkes, which SM knew, was related to Agnon, whose official name was S.J. Czaczkes till 1924.
[Zeit 223, 262; family Czaczkes: pp45]
{DEA 1 / DE / Jerusalem/1956}
Germaine ALAZARD (1906 Paris - 2019 Paris)
>> photo IJRG (Internationale Joseph Roth Gesellschaft) Wien: mit Joseph Roth 1938/39
Innkeeper of the Café Tournon in Paris, wher Joseph Roth residet. Guardian angel of Roth.
[Berg 19; Roth 194, 198, 202, 228, 253, 262, 272, 273, 282]
{DEA 1 / FR / Paris / 1944}
Scholem ALEJCHEM (1895-1916)
SM reports on an encounter of Joseph Roth with the Yiddish poet inv Vienna 1913.
[Roth 25; Zeit 222f]
Peter ALTENBERG (1859-1919)
Austrian poet
[Berg 57f, 95; Roth 163, 282, (309)]
Jakob ALTMAIER (1889 Flörsheim am Main -1963 Bonn)
German Jewish journalist, member of the resistance, socialist politician. Flew 1933 to Paris, There in exil he frequents (such as Joseph Roth) the bistro of the Hotel de la Poste. Then detention in the camp Audierne, after release active in the resistance on the Balkan. 1949 he returns to Germany and becomes member of the Bundestag (German federal parliament).
[Roth 226-229, 238]
*Lotte ANDOR >>FRIENDS (Roth (307)] {DEA} (RK)
Volker ANDREAE (1879-1962)
Swiss composer
[Berg 178]
Walter APTOWITZER (= W. ARLEN) (1920 in Vienna - 2023 Los Angeles)
Austrian-American composer from Vienna. 1938 to the USA. Teacher on the university in Los Angeles
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / ? / ?}
Louis ARAGON (1897 Paris – 1982 Paris)
French (socialistic) writer. Received in 1939 Joseph Roth and SM in his function as chief editor of the leftist Ce soir.
[ Roth 199 ]
Schalom ASCH (1880 Kutno, Russian Poland – 1957 London)
Yiddish, Polnish-American writer. His works are published in German translationa at Zsolnay. Asch knew Paul Zsolnay and also Ann Mahler, his wife in that time. Alban Berg recommends Asch as an advacate to publish SM's Sohn des verlorenen Sohnes at Zsolnay.
In his memoirs "In einer anderen Zeit" SM tells how in Buczacz Asch was slapped in his face.
[Berg 273, 289; Roth 81; Zeit 222-224]
*Stefan ASKENASE >>FRIENDS [Berg 314f, (356)] {DEA}
*Brooks ATKINSON >>FRIENDS
KBT 640 ] {DEA} (RK; Dan Morgenstern)
Friedrich AUSTERLITZ (1862-1931)
Chef editor of the leading Austrian newspaper Arbeiter-Zeitung
[Berg 346]
Béla BÁLAZS (Herbert BAUER) (1884 Szegedin – 1949 Budapest)
Hungarian film theorist and writer. 1919-1926 in Vienna. SM met him in Vienna in „his“ Café Stöckl in Vienna´s district Hietzing. This café was frequented by Hungarian emigrants. Baron Hatvany introduced SM to Béla Bálazs. "[..] I know him very well. In the beginning I was him mostly together mit Ludwig Hardt, with whom hw was friend." ( translated from German SM, Berg, S.80)
[Berg 77ff, 106; KBT 534f,641]
Hermann BANG (1857-1912)
Danish poet, friend of Dr. Löbl.
Bang monument in Copenhagen
[Roth 168 ]
BASS
Acquaintance from schooldays inTarnopol. SM met him by accident again in Vienna and in the USA.
[Roth 124f ]
Richard BEER-HOFMANN (1866 Wien – 1945 New York)
Austrian poet with a strong Jewish identity. Was friend of Abraham Sonne. In 1935 SM had send to Beer-Hofmann a copy of his first novel.B-H thanks SM for this in writing.
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Wien / 1935)
Imre BÉKESSY (1886-1951)
Blackmailing newspaper publisher in Vienne, against whom Karl Kraus fought in his articles.
[Berg 156]
*Walter BENJAMIN >>FRIENDS [Berg 120, (389, 398) Roth 80, (311, 312, 315); KBT 505-550, 642]
Levi Isaak BERDITSCHEW (1740-1809)
Hasidic "Wunderrabbi", source of many songs, estimated by SM.
[Roth 268]
Fred BÉRENCE (1889-1977)
Swiss journalist and writer; 1911-1932 professor in Prague, as from 1932 in France. Wrote in Les Nouvelles Littéraires an obituary on Jospeh Roth. There he mentiones also SM as "the most faithful one of all followers, who watched over him like a brother". (translated from German)
[Roth 295, (318)]
*Alban & Helene BERG >>FRIENDS [Alban: more or less the whole book; Roth 72, 73, 76, 93, (101, 102), 103, 104, 105, 127, 159, (304, 305, 309, 312, 313, 319, 320,325,); KBT 644, 651-654,655, 659f, 662]; Helene: [Berg: va. 64f, 360ff 376ff; Roth 93, 101]
Carl („Charly“) Bernhard Christian BERG (1881-1952)
Brother of Alban Berg
[Berg 272, 291, 365]
Johanna BERG (1851-1926)
Mother of Alban Berg
[Berg 364]
Smaragda BERG, verh. EGER (1886-1954)
Sister of Alban Berg; piano teacher, Lesbian.
[Berg 272, 290, 312, 364, (395)]
Hermann BERLINSKI (1910 Leipzig – 2001 Washington)
Organist, composer; spoke Yiddish in the family
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / New York / 1956}
Gottfried BERMANN FISCHER (1897 Gleiwitz – 1995 Toskana)
(Exile-)publisher, Berlin / New York.
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Frankfurt / 1957}
*Siegfried (Selig) BERNFELD ?FRIENDS [Zeit 308-309]
Felix BERTAUX (1881 Dombras – 1948 Sevres)
French schoolmaster and specialist in German studies, friend of Joseph Roth.
[Roth 209,]
Pierre BERTAUX (1907 Lyon – 1986 Saint Cloud)
French specialst in German studies, son of Felix B., also friend of Jospeh Roth.
[Roth 209, 248]
Elsa BIENENFELD (1877-1942)
Music writer from Vienna, antecessor of SM as music critic for the Frankfurter Zeitung. She was deported on Augsut 4, 1942 to the Trostinec extermination camp.
[Berg 364; Roth 74]
Rudolf G. BINDING (1867 Basel – 1938 Starnberg)
German nationalist, successful author (e.g "Moselfahrt aus Liebeskummer"). He allowed to be mentioned as as one of the authors, who published in the press a solemn promis of a most faithful loyality to Hitler. However, he still had a reserved attitude to the NS-regime. He worked for the Frankfurter Zeitung, colleague of SM and Joseph Roth and knew them both. In Augsut 1930 he published a (rather early) review about Hitler´s "Mein Kampf" in the Frankfurter Zeitung. There he judged about Hitler: "He does not love anybody. He has only one instinct: to oppress people. Maybe he disprizes everybody. For he surely disprizes those he needs in the end the most in order to achieve his goal: the mass."
SM devotes to him a small chapter in his memoirs about Roth: "How Joseph Roth humbled Rudolf G. Binding"
[Roth 87f]
*Ernst BLOCH & *Karola BLOCH née. PIOTRKOWSKA ?FRIENDS [Roth 76, 80, (304, 330); Berg 120, 122, ( 400); KBT 506, 510, 523 ,538, 542;] {DEA} (RK)
Mies BLOMSMA (1905 – 1940 Blaricum, The Netherlands)
Dutch illustrator. She commited suicide after the occupation of the Netherlands by Nazi-Germany.
In November 1938 she had made a drawing of Joseph Roth in the café. Roth approved it by commenting: This indeed is me: Evil, boozy, but brainy. ("Das bin ich wirklich; böse, besoffen aber gescheit.").
SM erroneously thougt to remember a male artist in the café. The drawing is often published e.g. here: www.literaturepochen.at
[Roth 18]
*Kasper & Edith BLOND ?FRIENDS [Berg 368f, (396); Zeit 339] {DEA}
Kermit BLOOMGARDEN (1904 New York – 1976 New York)
Theater producer (Broadway)
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / New York / 1956}
Joseph BORNSTEIN (1899 Krakau, then Austria-Hungary – 1952 New York)
Leftist journalist. Studied in Berlin and Vienna. 1925 German citizen; Cooperation with Leopold Schwarzschild, Stefan Großmann and Vaeriu Marcu at the „Tagebuch“ in Berlin, as from 1933 in Paris at the "Das Neue Tagebuch". 1940 volunteer in the French army, 1941 to the USA. Was friend of Joseph Roth and possessed a collection of (partly personal) documents from and about Joseph Roth. The origin of this collection is unclear; today it is part of the Leo Baeck Institute collection in New York.
[ Roth 107, 263 ]
Svetozar BOROEVIC VON BOJNA (1856-1920)
Croatian general in the Austro-Hungarian army
[Berg 334]
Sigmund BOSEL (1893 – 1942 [or 1945] ) .
Controversial Viennese Jewish stock market speculator. According to eyewitnesses, he was shot during transport from Vienna to Riga by the notorious Alois Brunner [a follower of Eichmann] in February 1942.
[Berg 171]
John (Hans Julius) BRAHM >>FRIENDS [ - ] { DEA}
Max BRAND (1896 Lemberg – 1980 Langenzersdorf, Austria)
Austrian (opera) composer of Jewish origin
[Berg 29, 230f]
William G. BRAUDE (1907 Telsiai, Litauen – 1988 USA)
1920 to USA; Rabbi in Providence; also taught at the University of Jerusalem
[ - ]
{DEA 10 / EN / Providence / 1950-1957}
*Bertold BRECHT >>FRIENDS [KBT 547-549]
Adalbert BRENNINKMEYER (1893 Mettingen, Westfalen, Germany - 1956 probably Mattsee near Salzburg)
Pastor for the Catholic Austrians in exile in Paris. After the war in Salzburg. Performed Catholic rituals at Roth's funeral (together with the priest Johannes Oesterreicher). Was also active as a writer (Stella. Novellas. Leipzig 1937).
[ Roth 276f, 279 ]
Bernhard von BRENTANO (1901 Offenbach/Main – 1964 Wiesbaden)
German writer, journalist, essayist from a Catholic family; friends with Bert Brecht. Was the Berlin arts correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung from 1925 to 1930. Voluntarily exiled to Switzerland in 1933 (until 1949).
Protested against SM's employment at the Frankfurter Zeitung - and later apologized to SM for it.
[ Roth 75, 204, 227 ]
Hermann BROCH (1886 Wien – 1951 New Haven / Connecticut)
E.E. Noth reports that SM (1932) was passionately committed to the work of "his friend" Broch. This friendship is not otherwise documented, but a personal acquaintance seems likely: Broch was on friendly terms with his old school friend Alban Berg; Broch, like SM (and Ernst and Karola Bloch, Ernst Krenek, Elias Canetti, among others), was part of Anna Mahler's circle of friends, who visited her apartment in Operngasse from 1935 onwards). SM mentions Broch in connection with Musil.
(see also the entry on E.E. Noth below)
[Roth 76, (304); Berg 109, 247]
(Ernst Erich Noth: Erinnerungen eines Deutschen, S. 231)
Max BROD (1884 Prag – 1968 Tel Aviv)
Bohemian-Israeli old Austrian German-speaking Jewish writer and savior of Kafka's literary legacy. Unclear whether he knew SM personally.
[Roth 98]
{DEA 2 / DE / Tel Aviv / 1953 u.1957}
Arnold BRONNEN (1895-1959)
Austrian (play)writer who switched from National Socialism to resistance and communism
[Berg 357 ]
David BRONSEN (1926 USA – 1990 USA [?])
Germanist; Roth biographer; Professor of German at Washington University in St. Louis. Correspondence with SM in connection with his Roth biography.
[ - ]
{DEA 18 / DE / St. Louis / 1969-1972)
Martin BUBER (1878 Vienna – 1965 Jerusalem)
Austrian-Israeli religious philosopher. SM acknowledged Buber's achievements in making the Hasidic world known in the West, but at the same time rejected his "cosmetic treatment" of it.
[KBT 531f, 639; Blutsäule-Kommentar 10, 11, 13]
{DEA 1 / DE / Jerusalem / 1955}
Friedrich BURSCHELL (1889-1970)
German germanist
[Berg 152 ]
Erhard BUSCHBECK (1889-1960)
Austrian director / producer
[Berg 178 ]
*Rafaello BUSONI >>FRIENDS [ - ] {DEA)
George BYRON (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
British poet
[Berg 178 ]
Ida CAHAN (?1912-?1989)
= Ida Cahan-Epstein?
[ - ]
{DEA 4 / EN / ? / 1953-1956)
Elias CANETTI (1905 Russe (Rustschuk) Bulgarien – 1994 Zürich)
(u.a.)
Writer with strong Austrian ties. In Vienna from 1924 to 1938. He was part of Anna Mahler's circle of friends (from 1935 in her apartment in Operngasse) and in the Café Museum. SM is also the only Viennese writer, alongside Canetti, to write about Abraham Sonne ("Dr. Sonne"). In 1950 SM met him again in London.
See also Veza Canetti
[ Roth (304); KBT 684 ]
Veza CANETTI (geb. Venetiana Taubner[-Kalderon]) (1897 Wien -1963 London)
Österreichische Schriftstellerin, Erste Frau von Elias Canetti. Ihre Briefe an SM sind (auch) im Namen von Elias C. geschrieben „der später selber noch schreiben wird“, was er aber vermutlich nicht getan hat.
[ - ]
{DEA 2 / 1956 / London / 1956)
Adolf CASPARY (1898 – 1953)
Ökonom und Politologe. Schüler von Oskar Goldberg . "Die Maschinenutopie, Berlin 1927"; "Wirtschafts-Strategie und Kriegsführung" 1932. War in Briefkontakt mit Th. Mann. Publikation: "Zum Thema Die Idee der jüdischen Mission in: Jüdische Revue, 1, 1936
[ - ]
{DEA 4 / DE / New York / 1952)
Henry CELLERIER
Fragebogen zu J Roth; Autor von "Einführung in die Welt Joseph Roths"Bordeaux 1971, Une patrie pour un émigré: Joseph Roth établi en France 1984
[ - ]
{DEA 4 / DE / Wien / 1975)
Charles CHAPLIN (1889-1977)
SM revered Chaplin. He was convinced that Chaplin's paternal side had to be of Jewish descent
[Berg 115-116, Zeit 328 ]
Eugen CLAASSEN (1895 Zürich – 1955 Hamburg)
Verleger; früherer Name: Jewgenij Schmujlow - Claassen ist der Mädchenname der Mutter. Sohn eines russ. Vaters. Ab 1917 dt. Staatsbürger.
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / Frankfurt / 1943}
Matthias CLAUDIUS (1740-1815)
German poet and journalist, revered by SM
[Berg 20 ]
Gordon CLAYCOMBE (1909-2002)
American pianist, 1929-1934 tought by Webern in Vienna
[Berg (237) ]
Georges CLEMENCEAU (1841-1929)
French statesman who advocated a retrial of Dreyfus; SM mentions him in this context.
[Roth 161f ]
Henriette CLEVE, geb HAMERSCHLAG (1895 Nimburg [Nymburk], Böhmen – 1947 London)
Henriette Cleve, curtesy Renate Arslan-Cleve, Vienna
Henriette Hamerschlag, of Jewish origin, was born on May 30, 1895 in Nimburg in central Bohemia - her father was a railway engineer there - and came to Vienna as a child, where she also attended school. She became a theater agent in Germany, was also active in the Communist Party there, and in 1921 married the German aristocratic actor Heinz von Cleve, with whom she had a son: Heinz Cleve (Munich 1921 - Vienna 1993). The marriage ended in divorce after just two years. Theater agent Henriette Cleve was unable to run a regular household because of her frequent travels, so her son grew up with her family in Vienna from 1924 onwards. However, Henriette got a permanent job (around 1927) at the Jewish theater agency Löwenstein in Mainz so that she could have her son with her. However, the Mainz apartment had to be given up after a year and a half, and the son returned to Vienna. She stayed in Germany, but in 1933 she had to leave as a Jewish communist and then returned to her family in Vienna. There, the "Frau von Cleve" became the partner of Carl Rössler (1864-1948) from 1935. In Vienna she was a "close friend" of Karl Kraus, with whom she is said to have corresponded - unfortunately the letters are lost. After the "Anschluss" she was able to come to England with Carl Rössler, where she found a job as a domestic helper in Oxford. (Her son came to London in 1939). In 1945 she fell ill with cancer and Carl Rössler, whom she had cared for until then, was placed in a nursing home. Her illness made it impossible for her to return to Vienna (her son returned after the end of the war). She died of her illness in a London hospital on April 17, 1947. Her urn was transported to Vienna and later buried in the Döbling family grave.
She came into contact with Soma Morgenstern in her “role” as a friend of Karl Kraus in the Café Museum.
[ Roth 129 ]
Literature (about her son):
- Auer, Manfred/Bauer, Karin/Vieregge, Thomas: Heinz Cleve. Vom Wiederfinden der Heimat in der Fremde, in: Bobrowsky, Manfred (Hg.): Geschichte spüren. Österreichische Publizisten im Widerstand. Wien: Picus Verlag 1990, S. 69–92. (mit einem Interview).
- Sonja Frank (Hg.); Young Austria. ÖsterreicherInnen im Britischen Exil 1938-1947 für ein freies, demokratisches und unabhängiges Österreich. Wien (ÖGB Verlag), 2012. , 488 S. Das Buch bringt einen Beitrag von Renate Arslan-Cleve, der Enkelin von Henriette Cleve, über ihren Vater Heinz Cleve; darin sind auch Informationen über ihre Großmutter enthalten.
Harold CLURMAN (1901 New York – 1980 New York)
Director (parents Yiddish Eastern European immigrants)
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / Hollywood / 1943}
Benjamin Victor COHEN (1894-1983)
American lawyer; 1919-1921 secretary to Chaim Weizmann in the London Zionist Office – and in this capacity a colleague of Abraham Sonne. SM mentions him in conversation with Zweig and Roth in connection with Sonne.
[Roth 162]
Hermann COHEN (1842-1918)
German Jewish philosopher. SM mentions him in connection with discussion about Zionism, which Cohen rejects.
[Roth 35, 289]
Joseph CONSTANT(INOWSKY), Michael MATVÉEV (1892 Jaffa – 1969 Paris)
Sculptor and writer of Russian Jewish descent. Grew up in Odessa, left Russia after a pogrom in 1919, settled in Paris in 1923. Wrote novels in French (according to another source in Yiddish); Roth and SM liked Les Traqués, published in 1933, and Roth compared SM's first novel to this work. The work was published in German in 2010 under the title Die Gehetzten. Constantinowsky was friends with Joseph Roth.
[Roth 111 ]
Jackie COOGAN (1914-1984)
US film actor. Child star in The Kid with Chaplin.
[Berg 115-123 ]
Karl CORINO (geb. 1942 in Ehingen, Mittelfranken)
German journalist, critic, Musil biographer. Correspondence with SM about Musil.
[KBT S.551-563: Über Robert Musil – Aus Briefen an Karl Corino ]
{DEA 12 / DE / Tübingen / 1970-1974}
Benajmin COTLER (1900? – 1986?)
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / Bridgeton, NJ / 1956}
Felix CZERWINSKI
Polish history teacher from SM in the gymnasium in Tarnopol
[Roth 166]
Geza von CZIFFRA (1900-1989)
Hungarian film director who knew Roth well and also published his memories of him (Der heilige Trinker - The Holy Drinker)
[Roth (192)]
Heinrich von DEGENFELD (1890-1978)
Around 1938 Secretary to Otto von Habsburg
[Roth 185]
M.N. DELMAN (?-?)
[ - ]
{DEA / 3 / DE / Florenz / 1959-1969}
Marya DELVARD (née Maria BILLER) (1874 Rixingen / Réchicourt-le-Château, Lotharingen – 1965 near Munich)
Cabaret singer, important representative of early German-language cabaret. Co-founder of the Fledermaus cabaret in Vienna (1907), among others. Lived in Vienna from 1930 to 1939. Associated with Klimt, Loos, Altenberg, Kraus and was friends with Smaragda since her youth. She introduced Smaragda Berg to the Viennese artistic circle, which also gave Alban Berg access there.
[Berg 273, 312 ]
*Marianne DEMEL, Edle VON ELSWEHR >>FRIENDS
Berg 378, Roth 172, 175, 177, 186 ] {DEA }
Ilse DERNBURG (1880 – 1964 or 1965)
German interior designer and playwright. Related to Katia Mann.
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Berlin / 1936}
Hans DEUTSCH (1906 Vienna – 2002 Lausanne)
Controversial Austrian-Israeli lawyer and publisher. From Vienna to Palestine in 1938, back to Vienna in 1953. In Switzerland since 1958. Published SM's in German The Third Pillar "Die Blutsäule) in 1964. In the same year, Deutsch was arrested for fraud against the German state. It remains unclear whether he was the fraudster (and/or) or the deceived (as a victim of Nazi intrigues). Even after his death, his son Joram Deutsch fought together with the lawyer Ed Fagan for his father's rehabilitation. In 2005, a documentary film was made about it in Germany: M. Juncker (director): Germany against German.
SM's publication of Blood Column was published under unfavorable circumstances due to the fraud allegations. Torberg, who had arranged for the publication to be published by Hans Deutsch, developed a bad opinion of the publisher. From his letters to Morgenstern: (4 October 1963):...It is very lenient of you that you have no stronger objection to Doctor Deutsch than his investments in Germany and no harsher description than "stupid". [...] and (19 January 1965): [...] It is really bad luck that this book has been affected by Deutsch's completely justified arrest. [...]
[ - ]
{DEA 4 / DE / Sidney, Lausanne / 1962-1967}
Klaus DOHRN (1909 near Dresden - 1979 USA)
German right-wing Catholic; 1933 to Vienna, worked on the conservative magazine "Der Christliche Ständestaat". 1938 escaped to Paris, where he was part of Catholic-legitimist circles around Otto Habsburg and Joseph Roth (and met SM); 1941 escaped from France, after internment in Spain, in the USA from 1942. After the war, he was a European correspondent for Time and Life.
[Roth: 214ff, 224, 235, 277, 281, 283; Zeit 19f]
{DEA 1 / DE / New York / 1942}
*Serge DOHRN >>FRIENDS [Roth: 214ff, 222ff, 255, 277, 296; Flucht (407)]
Engelbert DOLLFUSS (1892-1934)
Austrian fascist chancellor murdered by the Nazis. A section of SM's memoirs is titled "Trauerfeier für Dolfuss (Funeral for Dollfuss)."
[Roth 128-133]
DONJA (approx 1874 Eastern Galicia -?)
SM's Ukrainian wet nurse, whom he lovingly portrayed in his trilogy - also as Donja, the beloved Alfred's.
[ Zeit 36-43]
Alfred DREYFUS (1859-1935)
French Jewish officer involved in his affair - the Dreyfus affair.
[Berg 96; Roth 161f ]
Carl EBERT (1887-1980)
German actor and director
[Berg 247]
Smaragda EGER-BERG see BERG
Adolf EICHMANN (1906-1962)
Main responsible for millions of murders
[Berg 226]
Alfred EINSTEIN (1880-1952)
German-American musicologist
[Roth 84]
*Hanns EISLER >>FRIENDS
[Roth 147, (304); Berg 49ff, 205, 353, 356; KBT 549]
Lou(ise) EISLER-FISCHER (1906 Wien - 1998 Wien)
Journalist and translator. 1937-1955 Married to Hanns Eisler, from 1955 to the communist author and politician Ernst Fischer.
In a letter dated February 17, 1963 to the Bloch couple, SM writes: "I was also in Vienna, in 1957. There I met Lou Eisler-Fischer and Ernst Fischer, among others, and I heard from them that you live in Leipzig. [...]"
A copy of the letter is in SM's estate in the German Exile Archive in Frankfurt)
Bruno EISNER (1884 Vienna – 1978 New York)
Austrian-American (Viennese) Jewish pianist. From 1910 Berlin, from 1936 USA. Friend of Karol Rathaus, among others. Portrayed by Emil Orlik around 1910. (Link to portrait on a site dedicated to Orlik)
[ - ]
{DEA: 1 / DE / New York / ?}
Jozef EITELBERG
Lawer
[ - ]
{DEA: 1 / PL / Lemberg / 1937}
Wolfgang ELFE
Germanist at the State Univ. of New York; concerns Ernst Weiss
[ - ]
{DEA: 1 / DE / New York / 1972}
Ernst ELY (1877-1947)
Successor to Karl Tschuppik, editor-in-chief of the Viennese scandal newspaper “Die Stunde”
[Roth 102, 140]
Peter ENGEL
Editor of Ernst Weiss
[ - ]
{DEA: 1 / DE / Hamburg / 1975}
*Paul Victor FALKENBERG >>FRIENDS [ - ] {DEA}
Marcel FAUST (1912 Vienna – 2005 Vienna)
Drawing 2004
Austrian-Amerikan ( Viennese) Jewish "highly educated literary buff“ (Milan Dubrovic in his memoirs "Veruntreute Geschichte"). Escaped Vienna 1938, came back in 1945 as Amerikan soldier and stayed (against primariliy intention) in Vienna.
Met SM firstly before WW II in the Café Museum, met him again in 1942 or 1943 (together with Hans Sahl) in Cape Cod, and after the war in the Café Herrenhof, where SM visited the circle around Torberg during his trips to Europe.
[ - ]
(personal information)
Emil FEY (1886-1938)
Austrofascist leader of the "Heimwehr". Fights socialists and national socialists.
[Berg 335]
Stefan FINGAL (FISCHBEIN) (1889 Mostar – 1962 bei Lausanne)
Journalist, writer. Became friends with Roth in 1919 (worked together in Vienna from 1919 to 1920 on the newspaper "Der Neue Tag", moved with Roth to Berlin in 1920. Roth always referred to him as "my friend Fingal"). Belonged to Roth's circle in the Paris Café Tournon around 1938; probably less appreciated by SM. Took care of Roth's funeral and then took care of the grave. Survived the occupation in France under a false name.
[Roth 208, 245f, 275f, 295]
Louis FINKELSTEIN (1895 Cincinnati -1991)
Conservative Rabbi in New York
[ - ]
{DEA: 2 / EN / New York / 1973, 1975}
Ernst FISCHER (1899 Komotau (Bohemia - 1972 Deutschfeistritz (Styria))
Austrian writer and politician. Friends with Ernst Tiller and Stefan Zweig, among others. First (communist) Minister of Education in Austria after the liberation in 1945. In his second marriage in 1955 he married Lou (Louise) Eisler, the former wife of Hanns Eisler.
In a letter dated February 17, 1963 to the Bloch couple, SM writes: "I was also in Vienna, in 1957. There I met Lou Eisler-Fischer and Ernst Fischer, among others, and I heard from them that you live in Leipzig. [...]"
A copy of the letter is in SM's estate in the German Exile Archive in Frankfurt)
Marina FISTULARI (geb. 1943 London)
Daughter of Anna Mahler, granddaughter of Gustav and Alma Mahler
[ - ]
{DEA: 2 / DE / London / 1973}
*Josef FRANK >>FRIENDS [Roth 117, (160), 191, (304); Berg 109f, 122, 329ff; KBT 545; Flucht(370)] {DEA}
*Leonhard FRANK >>FRIENDS [ Roth 167; KBT 507] (RK)
*Myra FRANKFURT >>FRIENDS Frau von Fedor OZEP. Siehe auch dort.
FRANZ JOSEPH I. (1830-1916)
Father in law of Alban Berg; Emperor
[Berg 111f; Roth 82, 241 ]
Esti (Ernestine) FREUD, geb. DRUCKER (1896 Wien – 1980 USA)
Speech therapist, married to Sigmund Freud's eldest son, Martin; mother of the psychologist Sophie Freud. In 1938 she fled to Paris and separated from her husband; later emigrated to the USA, where she completed her doctorate at the age of 59. SM was invited to a dinner with her in New York in 1945.
[ Roth 155]
Sigmund FREUD (1856 Freiberg, Moravia, Austria-Hungary -1939 London)
[Roth 68, 145, 154, 157ff, 163f, 179; Zeit pp308 ]
(Fräulein) FREUND
Joseph Roth occasionally dictated to her in Paris
[Roth 251 ]
Oskar FRIED (1871-1941) German conductor
[Berg 44]
Egon FRIEDELL (1878-19381) Austrian author
[Berg 61]
*Paul FRIEDLÄNDER >>FRIENDS [KBT 519]
Dr. FRIEDMANN (Data unknown)
Doctor who treated Alban Berg too late when Berg suffered from fatal blood poisoning. He was friends with Alma Mahler and later met SM in Paris; they were both in a French concentration camp together.
[Berg 373, 382]
Adolf FRISÉ (1910 Euskirchen – 2003 Frankfurt) Maria FRISÉ (born. 1926)
Musiloge, writer. Contacted SM about Musil. Author of the only obituary for SM in Europe.
[ Roth (324) ]
{DEA: 1/ DE / Bad Homburg / 1974; 1975 Brief von SM an Maria Frisé}
Karl FRUCHT (1911 Vienna – 1991 Vienna)
Viennese Jewish writer, took part in the Viennese literary scene of the 1930s. Friends with Ruth Pauli, George Grosz, Walter Mehring and many others; in 1938/39 in exile in Paris, guest at Roth's regulars' table in the Café de la Poste, about which he was one of the few to report on SM: „Zum Stammtisch Joseph Roths gehörte[…] sein treuer Gefolgsmann Soma Morgenstern […]. Er vereinte in sich die besten Qualitäten des Ghettojuden, indem er gelassen blieb und >ruhig klärte<, wenn andere den Kopf verloren […]“ ("Joseph Roth's regulars' table included [...] his loyal follower Soma Morgenstern [...]. He combined the best qualities of the ghetto Jew in that he remained calm and >calmly clarified< when others lost their heads [...]")
[ - ]
(Karl Frucht: Verlustanzeige. Ein Überlebensbericht. Wien, Kremayt & Scheriau 1992, S. 141 f.)
*Bernhard FUCHS >>FRIENDS [Roth 51, (52), 65ff, 113, 156]
Martin FUCHS (1903 Vienna – 1969 Vienna)
Son of Bernhard Fuchs. After studying law, he became a press attaché at the Austrian embassy in Paris; after the so-called Anschluss, he undertook numerous organizational and journalistic activities in a leading position in the Austrian legitimist-conservative resistance in Paris, and from 1940 in New York; in 1947 he returned to Austria and worked in the diplomatic service, ultimately as ambassador in Brussels and Paris. 1938-39 he had contact with SM and Joseph Roth in Paris.
Literature:
Martin Fuchs: Showdown in Vienna. The Death of Austria, New York 1939;
J.Rovan: L’emigration monarchiste autrichienne en France, Grenoble 1979;
Documentationsarchive of the Austrian Resistance: Österreicher im Exil, Frankreich 1938-1945, Vienna 1984
F.Hausjell (ed.): Vertriebene Wahrheit. Journalismus im Exil, Vienna 1995.
[Roth 229ff]
Hanna FUCHS-ROBETTIN, geb. WERFEL (1896 Prag – 1964 New York)
Sister of Franz Werfel. From 1925, lover of Alban Berg, who wrote his Lyric Suite for her in 1926. SM "kept watch" for Alban Berg because of her, so that Helene Berg didn't notice.
[Berg 307f ]
*László GÁBOR >>FRIENDS . [Berg 110; Roth]
*Lissi GÁBOR >>FRIENDS [ - ] {DEA}
Theodor GALGÓCZY von GALÁNTHA (1834-1896) Husar. Generalmajor, Oberstinhaber des 13. Husaren-Regiments. (War niemals Kriegsminister)
[ Roth 69 ]
Rudolf GECK (1868 Elberfeld - 1936 Frankfurt/Main)
Portraitzeichnung; Titelbild von: Rudolf Geck: -ck. erzählt von Tieren, Kindern und Begegnungen. Frankfurt 1929
Spotted by the publisher L. Sonnemann, Geck was since 1896 editorial journalist of the Frankfurter Zeitung; 1907-1924 he was the director of the feuilleton.
SM dedicates to him a seperate chapter in his memoirs about Jospeh Roth.
[ Roth 49f, 62, 89-92, 127 ]
Astrid GEHLHOGFF-CLAES (1928 Leverkusen – 2011 Düsseldorf)
Writer
[ -]
{DEA: 8 / DE / Düsseldorf / 1962-1966}
Zvi GEZARI (1910 Polen – 1988 New York)
Engineer who built a telescope as a gift for his friend Einstein. Interbellum in Palestine, then in (1940?) USA (Long Island). Married (1938 Tel Aviv) to the artist & educator Temina Gezari 1905-2009
[ -]
{DEA: 1 / EN / New York / 1955}
Blanche GIDON (1883-1974)
French translator of J. Roth, had also helped to publish Roth's texts in France and had preserved Roth's papers during the German occupation.
[ Roth 262, 297, (317)]
{DEA: 1 / FR / Paris / 1944}
Josef GIELEN (1890-1968)
Austrian director whom Edward Steuermann was asked in 1927 to stage SM's plays.
[ Berg 176]
*Darsie GILLIE >>FRIENDS [Roth 193, 202, 211, 212, 287; KBT 680, 681, 685]
Arthur von GIZYCKI-ARKADJEW (? - ?)
Conductor and music writer. Music critic for the Riga and St. Petersburg daily press. Around 1929 in Berlin
[ - ]
{DEA: 1/DE/ Frankfurt/ 1928}
Alan GLASSER (? - ?)
[ - ]
{DEA: 2/EN/ Cleveland/ 1946}
R. GOETZ (? - ?)
[ - ]
{DEA: 1/EN/ New York/ 1957}
Oskar GOLDBERG (1885-1953)
German physician and religious philosopher
[ Berg (352)]
David A. GOLDSTEIN (1903-1990)
Conservative rabbi in Philadelphia.
[ - ]
{DEA: 2/EN/ Philadelphia/ 1956}
Heinrich GOMPERZ (1873 Wien – 1942 Los Angeles)
Austrian philosopher. After forced retirement in 1934 (the social democratic minded man was the only one of the "Vienna Circle (Wiener Kreis) " who did not join the "Vaterländische Front " ("Fatherland Front"), he became a visiting professor in LA. SM attended his lectures at the University of Vienna in the winter semester of 1913
[ Roth 20 ]
*Josef GOTTFARSTEIN >>FRIENDS [Roth 278, (317) ] {DEA}
Sophie GRAYZEL, geb. SOLOMON (1907 – 1980)
Wife of Solomon Grayzel, daughter of Rabbi Elias Solomon
[ - ]
{DEA: 1/ EN / Philadelphia / 1956}
Vera GREEN
[ - ]
{DEA: 1/EN/ London/ 1975}
*Dagmar GRILL >>FRIENDS [ - ] {DEA}
Manon GROPIUS (1916 Vienna – 1935 Vienna)
Daughter of Alma Mahler and Walter Gropius
[ Berg 307]
Mimi GROSSBERG (1905 Wien – 1997 New York)
Austrian writer in the USA. In addition to her own literary works, she published a monograph on literary emigration as well as several anthologies and two exhibition catalogues on Austrian authors in America. Central figure in the group of exiled Austrian authors in the USA. One of the first to publish on SM.
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / New York / 1975}
Eva Louise GROSZ geb. PETER (1895 – 1960)
Wife of George Grosz
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Berlin? / ?}
*George GROSZ >>FRIENDS [ Roth 197 ]
Wilhelm (Will) GROSZ (1894 Wien – 1939 New York)
Viennese Jewish composer of lighter music (e.g. Isle of Capri), pianist, conductor. Was (along with Alban Berg, among others) a board member of the serious music section of the Austrian Composers' Association. Later director of the Ultraphone Grammophon Society in Berlin. Returned to Vienna in 1933, and to London in 1934
[ Berg 133, 157 ]
Klara GRÜBEL (1893? – 1972? Wien?)
Joseph Roth's family in Lemberg had the surname Grübel.
"Juden in Wien" (Jews in Vienna)), AUFBAU 15 Feb 1946 p.29 mentions Klara Grübel as a Holocaust survivor
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Wien / 1951}
Friedrich Theodor GUBLER (1900-1965)
Swiss journalist; arts editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung. Ernst Krenek reports that he got to know SM through Gubler.
[ - ]
(E.Krenek: Atem der Zeit (Autobiographie) , dt. TB 1999, S. 880)
Felix GUGGENHEIM (1904 Konstanz – 1976 Beverly Hills)
Lawyer; publisher; co-founder of the exile publishing house "Pazifistische Presse". Exile publisher in the USA of Th.Mann, Werfel, Feuchtwanger, among others
[ - ]
{DEA: 3 / DE / Beverly Hills / 1953-1955}
*Dolly HAAS >>FRIENDS [KBT 636] {DEA}
Lilly HAHN (1914 Frankfurt - ? [nach 1979])
Journalist
[ - ]
{DEA / 2 / DE / Washington / 1956}
Paula von HAIMBERGER(-ARNO) (1911 Öst. Schlesien – 2010 Surry, USA)
Journalist. 1940 from Austria to the USA, work for the TIME magazine among others
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / ? / 1958}
Jenõ / Eugen HAJNAL (1889-1977)
Hungarian writer (and briefly Minister of Posts)
[Berg 83]
Murray G. HALL (1947 Winnipeg - 2023 Vienna)
Canadian Germanist in Vienna
[ - ]
{DEA / 2 / DE / Wien / 1974}
Józef HALLER VON HALLENBURG (1873-1960) Polnischer Oberstleutnant der k.u.k. Armee in Galizien
[Berg 344]
Philipp HALSMANN (1906-1979)
Accused of patricide in a sensational trial in Innsbruck in 1928, which also triggered anti-Semitic reactions.
[Roth 150]
Ferdinand HANUSCH (1866-1923)
Austrian social democratic politician
[Berg 345]
*Ludwig HARDT >>FRIENDS [Berg 80ff, 294f ; Roth 97f; KBT 547] {DEA}
Wladimir von HARTLIEB (1887-1951)
Austrian German nationalist author
[Berg (98)]
Michael & Evelyn HARTMAN
[ - ]
{DEA / 1 / EN / St. Petersburg, Florida / 1956}
*Lajos / Ludwig HÁTVANY-DEUTSCH >>FRIENDS [Berg 77f, 86, 112; Roth 201; KBT ]
Gerhard HAUPTMANN (1862 Silesia – 1946 Silesia)
In November 1932, SM was a guest “en petit comité” at Hauptmann’s 70th birthday party. Despite his horror at Hauptmann’s pandering to National Socialism, SM greatly appreciated his work.
[Berg 133, 285, 392; Zeit 321f]
Heinrich HAUSER (1901 – 1955)
German journalist who was succeeded by SM at the Frankfurter Zeitung.
[Roth 89]
Maria HEIDRICH (? – 1946 Wien?)
From the bookstore and antiquarian bookshop Heidrich Wien, founded with her husband Leopold (born 1884) in 1914 in Vienna I, Spiegelgasse
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Wien / 1946}
Rudolf M. HEILBRUNN (1901 Frankfurt/M – 1998 Kaiserslautern)
Historian, author and editor of Jewish origin (at Verlag Witsch)
[ - ]
{DEA 12 / DE / Kaiserslautern / 1961-1973}
Heinrich HEINE (1797 – 1856)
[Roth 277, 296, 299;Zeit 368 ]
Fred (Alfred) HELLER (1889 Obersiebenbrunn, NÖ – 1949 Montevideo, Uruguay)
Brother of Stephan Heller. Until 1938, theater and feature editor in Vienna and author of tabloid comedies. Fled to Uruguay in 1938. There he founded a theater group and worked for (Jewish) magazines in Uruguay and Argentina. In Vienna he met SM (and Joseph Roth).
[Roth 207f]
Stefan (Stephan) HELLER (1895 Wien – 1958 Wien)
Owner (and son of one of the two founders) of the Viennese candy factory Gustav & Wilhelm Heller ("Wiener Zuckerl"), brother of Fred Heller and father of André Heller. Of Jewish origin, converted to Catholicism for social rather than religious reasons. As a staunch opponent of the Nazis with monarchist sympathies, he had contacts with Otto von Habsburg, Austrofascism and Mussolini, whom he also supported financially in the hope of helping to prevent Hitler from coming to Austria. At first he did not believe in the racist seriousness of the Nazis and did not flee after the "Anschluss", but was arrested by the SA in March. Was released through the intervention of Mussolini on the condition that his (considerable) assets remain in "Austria". He fled to Italy, where assets could also be smuggled. His business was Aryanized - his non-Jewish wife, whom he had divorced in order to keep the business for her, was not allowed to take over the company. He fled to Italy, then to Paris. In Paris he (again) made contact with Otto von Habsburg and Joseph Roth (whom he had already met there earlier). He supported Roth financially with the intention of supporting SM through Roth. SM had first met Stephan Heller in Paris and was invited to dinner by him (together with Roth and Oliver de Pierrebourg) in Paris. Heller later fled to London, then back there after the liberation of Paris and after the war back to Vienna to his company. (The company was sold in 1971 and is now part of the Manner company.)
[Roth 207; Flucht (370)]
Ruzena HERLINGER (1893-1978)
Czech-Canadian singer; commissioner for Alban Berg's „Der Wein“.
[Berg (23, 236)]
Emil HERTZKA (1869-1932)
Music publisher, head of Universal Edition in Vienna.
[Berg 32]
*Abraham Joshua HESCHEL >>FRIENDS [ Roth (308), KBT 639 ] {DEA}
Hermann HESSE (1877-1962)
Probably not a personal acquaintance. In SM's estate there is a review by HH of the first edition of the German original of "The Son of the Prodigal Son".
Dietrich von HILDEBRAND (1889 Florenz – 1977 New Rochelle)
Catholic German philosopher, father of Franz von H.; 1933 escaped to Vienna. Head of the official journal “Der christliche Ständestaat”. 1938 to Paris, 1940 to the USA.
[Roth 214]
*Franz von HILDEBRAND >>FRIENDS [Roth 224ff, 255]
Fred HILDENBRANDT (1892- 1963)
German journalist and writer
[Berg 295]
Klaus-Peter HINZE
Germanist at Cleveland State University. Works on Ernst Weiss, among others
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / Cleveland / 1975}
*Al HIRSCHFELD >>FRIENDS [ KBT636, 646,649ff ] (RK; Dan Morgenstern)
I. HIRSCHHORN
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / HE / Tel Aviv / 1950}
Adolf HITLER (1889- 1945)
[Roth (87), (102) 139, 118, 122, 124, 130, 138, 139, 143, 144, 163, 170, 186, 188, 193,199,206, 208, 220, 226, 235, ]
Alfred HOELZEL (1934-1996)
Germanist of Austrian descent at the University of Mass., Boston. First (or at least one of the first) to write about SM, one of the few who also corresponded with SM.
[ - ]
{DEA 6 / EN-DE / Massachusetts / 1974-1975}
Else HOFMANN (1893 Vienna – 1960 New York)
Viennese Jewish art historian, journalist. 1938 via Paris to the USA.
cf.: http://www.univie.ac.at/geschichtegesichtet/e_hofmann.html
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / New York / 1946}
Emil von HOFMANNSTHAL (1884-1971)
Journalist, lawyer, cousin of Hugo, has written an appeal against the anti-Semitic brawls at the University of Vienna.
[Roth 9f, 13]
Hugo von HOFMANNSTHAL (1874 Wien – 1929 Rodaun (damals noch nicht Wien))
SM tells of a conversation he once had with Hofmannsthal at lunch after a matinee in the Josefstadt (district of Vienna).
[Roth 13, 85, 298; KBT 531, 649]
Karl HOLL (1892 – 1975)
Since 1918 employee, 1922-1943 music editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung.
[Roth 75]
*Jascha HORENSTEIN >>FRIENDS [Berg 27, 29, 72, 158, (396f) ; Roth (160, 304, 306, 310)] {DEA}
Bela HOROVITZ (1898 Budapest – 1955 New York)
Owner of the Vienna-based Phaidon publishing house, with whom Joseph Roth once negotiated in SM's presence.
[Roth 206]
Ödön von HORVAT (1901 Fiume - 1938 Paris)
There are no direct documents known to prove that SM and Horvat met in person. However, they must have known each other: In his letter of May 29, 1938 from SM in Paris to Landauer from the Allert de Lange publishing house in Amsterdam, SM writes that he had heard that Horvat was in Amsterdam and sends him his warmest regards. (See also 1938 in the "Curriculum Vitae" on this website.) These greetings could not have reached Horvat. At the end of May 1938, Horvat traveled from Amsterdam to Paris and had a fatal accident there on June 1.
[ - ]
Bronislaw HUBERMANN (1882 Tschenstochau/Czêstochowa – 1947 bei Vevey)
Polish violinist, founder (1935) of the Palestine Orchestra, the predecessor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
[Berg 218]
Jules HUF ( ? - )
Dutch journalist (Telegraaf, NCRV, Elsevier); has dealt extensively with the Nazi past of well-known personalities (Konrad Lorenz, Heesters); Austrian correspondent in Vienna around 1965, employee of Simon Wiesental.
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Wien / 1967}
Naphtali Herz IMBER (1856 - 1909)
Jewish poet from Galicia, author of Hatikva, the Israeli national anthem. Like Joseph Roth, he was an alcoholic.
[Roth 238]
Karl INWALD (1902 Wien – 1982 New York)
Musician, piano accompanist of the Viennese carabetist Armin Berg. After his successful escape from Vienna, he performed in NYC; he probably performed regularly in the (then very famous) New York nightclub EL MOROCCO, where he probably met SM. According to E.M. Remarque's diary entry, Inwald also went out in New York in the evenings with SM and Remarque.
[ - ]
Bilha ISRAELI
[ - ]
{DEA 5 / EN / Nathanja u.a. / 1965-69}
Monty JACOBS (1875 Stettin – 1945 London)
Feuilleton editor and theatre critic at the Vossische Zeitung in Berlin, where SM successfully applied for a position in 1927.
[Roth 97, 98, (99) ]
*Jean JAFFE >>FRIENDS [Zeit 299] {DEA}
Rolf JAHN (1898 Frankfurt/Main – 1968 Aspangberg)
1932-38 Director of the Deutsche Volkstheater Vienna
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Wien / 1932}
n
Leos JANACEK (1854- 1928)
Czech composer loved by Alban Berg
[Berg 299]
Gotthard JEDLICKA (1899-1965)
Swiss writer who used SM's phrase "baking bread" for literary style, in SM's opinion: stolen
[KBT 684f ]
Wolfgang JEHMÜLLER
The letter concerns J. Roth. WJ has published on JR: "On the problem of the 'double testimony' in Joseph Roth - in: Joseph Roth. Text und Kritik. Sonderband, München 1982, S. 76-75
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / München / 1971}
Ernst JOLOWICZ (1882 Posen, then within Germany; today Pozna? Poland – 1958 New York)
German psychiatrist, in Europe opponent of the psychoanlysis. 1933 flight into exile in France. Friend of Joseph Roth. SM met him 1938 in Paris. 1941 immigration to the USA where he "converted" to the psychoanalysis. His estate is in the Leo Baeck Institute in New York.
[Roth 154, 155,156]
Walter JONAS / Jean JANÉS (1899 oder 1900 Deutschland – 1966 Paris)
German Jewish journalist and writer who converted to Catholicism. In exile in Paris in 1938/39 he lived in the Hotel de la Poste as the third person alongside Roth and SM. Later, until his own death, he was a correspondent for the Suhrkamp publishing house. In 1950 SM met him again on his trip to Paris, which does not mean that he liked him. SM: Einer der schamlosesten, charmelosesten widerwärtigsten Schnorrer. Kein Jud, kein Katholik – ein Piefke! (One of the most shameless, charmless, disgusting beggars. Not a Jew, not a Catholic - a Kraut!)
[KBT 679f]
Franz KAFKA (1883 Prague – 1924 Kierling near Vienna)
SM reports about a discussion he has had with Kafka in Prague. (The meeting had been arranged by SMs friend Ludwig Hardt .)
SM saw Kafka as an extrordinary important person. He was engaged with him for decades. The only essays SM wrote in German, in print almost 40 pages (non published during his life), all deal with Kafka. The first text was written in the 1920ies, the last one in the last years of his life. The essays are partly preliminary studies for a never realized bookproject in English: Franz Kafka and his misinterpreters.
In the secondary literature the following papers are about Morgenstern's occupation with Kafka:
Klaus WERNER, Zur "galizisch-bukowinischen" Kafka-Rezeption , in the part Soma Morgenstern. Erfahrungsgeschichte und Zeugenschaft. Studien zur deutsch-jüdischen Literatur aus Galizien und der Bukowina S.259-263; 2003, München, IKGS Verlag
Claudine RABOIN, «Wir Juden sind Erzähler». Soma Morgenstern et Kafka: une relation complexe. In: J. Lajarrige (Hg.): Soma Morgenstern - De la Galicie à l`éxil américain S.345-359. 2014, Berlin, Frank&Thimme.
Kata GELLEN (Duke University) Soma Morgenstern´s Yiddish Kafka. Presentation at the Workshop „Yiddish Culutres in Past and Present Scholarschip: Histories, Ideologies, Methodoligies” an der Hebrew University in Jerusalem 27.-28. May 2015.
[Roth 80, 97f, 167; KBT 443-481 (about the meeting: 471-473;) 522f, 531, 561f, 564, 578, 581, 592, 595, 596f, 608, 612, 615]
Lasar KAGANOWITSCH (1893- 1991)
Soviet Jewish politician who (perhaps) declared his allegiance to the Ukrainian nation.
[Roth 37-38]
Josef KAINZ (1858- 1910)
Austrian actor
[Berg 303f]
Louis L. KAPLAN (1902 Slonim, Russia - 2001 Owing Mills)
President of the Baltimore Hebrew College and Teachers’ Training School
[ - ]
{DEA/ 3 / EN / Baltimore / 1955-1956}
Yella KARDOS (1885 Prag – 1942 Sobibor)
Lived in Vienna II, Zirkusgasse 41; was deported from Vienna to Sobibor on 14.6.42
[ - ]
{ DEA 1 / DE / Wien / 1941}
KARL I. (1877- 1922)
Austrian emperor, the last one
[Roth 284]
Wasili Iwanowitsch KATSCHALOW (1875- 1948)
Russian actor
[Berg 304]
Friedel KATZ (geb. KRÄMER) (geb. Sept 1912 in Heilbronn, lived Sept. 2012 in the USA), wife of
H(erz) W(olf) Katz (1906 Rudki, ca 50km sw of Lemberg -1992 Florida)
H.W. Katz 1930 Photo courtesy of Eve Katz
H.W. Katz was a German-American writer of East Galician origin, whose main work, "Die Fischmanns" (1938), has affinities with SM's "Sparks in the Abyss". The Katz couple fled from Lisbon to America with their two-year-old daughter Eve in 1941 on the same crossing on the MS Guiné as SM, where they also met SM. Two weeks after arriving in NY, Friedel Katz wrote SM a short letter (with an invitation), which is in SM's estate.
H.W. Katz mentions in his essay Warum ich in den USA geblieben bin (Why I stayed in the USA) (in: Mosler., Schreiben nach Auschwitz, Bund Verlag, Cologne 1989): "On April 15, 1941, I landed in New York, with my wife and child and Hans Sahl, Valeria Marcu and Soma Morgenstern." (cf, also anielabraham.net/tree/katz/bill/)
Friedel Katz still remembers the Guiné and Soma Morgenstern well after more than 70 years (as a 100-year-old):" Since there was little else to do on the Guiné except talk, during the voyage to the United States Soma Morgenstern and I spent many hours on deck in conversation. He was a very warm person, extremely kind, and unlike so many other writers, not full of himself! I liked Soma Morgenstern a lot. " (Friedel Katz, September 2012)
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / New York / 2. Mai 1941}
Edgar KAUFMANN (1910 Pittsburg – 1989 New York )
Amerikanischer Mäzen und Kaufhausbesitzer in Pittsburgh (Sohn des Auftraggebers des Fallingwater-Hauses von Frank Lloyd Wright.), studierte Ende der 1920er Jahre an der Wiener "Kunstgewerbeschule des Österreichischen Museums für Kunst und Industrie" (der heutigen "Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Wien"; vermutlich hat er damals SM über den gemeinsamen Freund Laszlo Gabor kenneengelernt. Er hat SMs Flucht in die USA finanziell unterstützt: "Letter of sponsorship" beim Emergency Rescue Committee. (Gabor hat SMs Avidavit ausgestellt)
[ - ]
{DEA: 5 / EN / Pittsburg / 1943-1946}
Gina KAUS (eig. Regina WIENER) (1893 Wien – 1985 Los Angeles)
Öst. Schriftstellerin, verkehrte teilweise in den selben Kreisen wie SM (zB Tschuppik); unklar, ob mit SM bekannt. Sie scheint in SMs amer. Telefonliste auf.
[ - ]
(RK)
Alexandr KERENSKI (1881- 1970) Kriegsminister der provisorischen bürgerlichen Regierung Russlands 1917
[Roth 42f]
*Hermann KESTEN >>FRIENDS
[Roth (47), 100, 108ff, 190, (205), 206, 279, (307, 315, 326); Flucht (375, 378)]
{DEA}
Alfred KESTENBAUM (1890 Wien – 1960 [oder 1961] USA)
Wiener jüd. Ophthalmologe; 1938 nach USA geflüchtet
[ - ]
{ DEA 1 / ? / ? / ? }
Ry… KIMMEL
[ - ]
{DEA / 3 / DE / Jerusalem / 1954-1964}
Egon Erwin KISCH (1885 Prag – 1948 Prag)
Altösterreichischer, tschechischer deutschsprachiger kommunistischer Journalist. Mit Joseph Roth befreundet. SM hat ihn durch Dr. Josef Löbel kennengelernt und ihn gerne gemocht.
[Roth 26, 78, 107, 235]
Erich KLEIBER (1890- 1956) Deutscher Dirigent
[Berg (390f, 394)]
A(braham) M(oses) KLEIN (1909 Ratno (Ratne), Ukraine – 1972 Montreal Prag)
Kanadischer jüdischer Dichter.
[ - ]
{ DEA / 1 / DE / Montreal / 1952}
*Lotte KLEMPERER >>FRIENDS
[ Roth (330) ]
{ DEA}
*Otto KLEMPERER >>FRIENDS
[Berg 122, 162, 196, 301f; Roth (73), 214, (304)]
{DEA}
*Annemarie von KLENAU née SIMON >> FRIENDS
[Berg 19, 144; Roth (50) ]
Marianne („May“) von KLENAU (1907 - ?)
Sister in law of SM
[Berg 147; Roth (174)]
Paul von KLENAU (1883 Kopenhagen – 1946 Kopenhagen)
Danish composer. 1922-1930 in Vienna: Choral conductor/concert director of the Vienna Konzerthaus Society. Represented a "non-Jewish" variant of twelve-tone music, i.e. he had come to terms with the National Socialists. SM got to know him - and especially his daughter - at Alban Berg's; he later became, as SM writes, "my father-in-law, much to his and my even greater regret." (zu seinem großen und meinem noch größeren Bedauern mein Schwiegervater)
[Berg 115, 161, 172, 316f]
Margarethe KOEPPKE (1902 Düsseldorf – 1930 Vienna (Suizid))
Actress. SM dedicated an obituary to her in the Frankfurter Zeitung.
[Berg 195, 199]
Rudolf KOLISCH (1896 near Semmering, south of Bienna – 1978 Watertown, Massachusetts)
Austrian-American violinist and music theorist. Founder of the Kolisch Quartet, brother-in-law of Schönberg.
[Berg 164, 171, 203, 214]
(RK 96)
Hilde KONETZNI (1905 – 1980), Anny KONETZNI (1902-1968)
Austrian opera singers (soprano). Sisters.
[Berg 363f]
Alexander KORDA (Sándor KELLNER) (1893 Hungary -1956 London)
Hungarian-British film director. SM knows him from the Hungarian group at Café Stöckl in Hietzing (Vienna).
[Berg 85]
Julius Leopold KORNGOLD (1860 – 1945),
Important Austrian music critic
[Berg 146, 362, 391]
*Nora KOSTER >>FRIENDS
[ - ]
{DEA}
*Siegfried KRACAUER >>FRIENDS
[Berg 120,122, (389); Roth 89, 205; KBT 506, 513 „Krac“, 522f, 528, 538ff]
Karl KRAUS (1874 Jitschin/Jicín (Böhmen) – 1936 Wien)
It is not known whether Kraus knew SM personally, but it is unlikely: "Karl Kraus remained silent for a long time before commenting on the atrocities of the Hitler regime in Germany. [...] Incidentally, I experienced a surprise that I would not have thought possible. A close friend of Karl Kraus, a woman from Cleve, once came to see me in the Café Museum and said to me: "Karl Kraus has been told that you are also one of those who are worried that the torch has not been published for so long. I am to tell you that if you ever come to the Café Parsifal again and see him there, you should come to his table and he will explain to you why he has been silent for so long." That was probably the greatest honor from Karl Kraus, and that was how he intended it. I did not make use of it, although I did actually feel that this invitation was an honor. But after careful consideration, I decided to forego it. Introducing myself to Karl Kraus at that time could certainly have been understood as if I was making him forget his attitude during the civil war." (translated from Roth, p. 128f.).
In his autobiographical notes in 1951, SM summarizes his attitude to Kraus (in connection with G.B. Shaw) as follows: "In his younger years, when every man, if he is worthy of being or becoming one, wants above all to improve the world and for this good reason is inclined to admire the scoffers, the biters, the tear-downers in literature, art and politics, in these half-mature years I lived in Vienna and I read and loved and admired Karl Kraus. At the age of 35 I stopped admiring him, at 40 I stopped loving him, at 45 I stopped reading him! Nevertheless, even today I would not give Karl Kraus up for a dozen B. Shaws. In wit, humor and power of language, Karl Kraus surpasses everything that world literature of the twentieth century has produced up to now - 1951 - in the way of satire and has to offer, whether Nobel Prize-winning or not." (translated from KBT p. 586).
Anne D. Peter deals with SM's attitude towards Kraus in her book "Komik und Gewalt" (2007 - see literature) on pp. 128-140.
[Berg 27, 61, 68f, 80f, 88f, 93, 109, 137f, 161, 209, 231, 256, 322. 340; Roth 128f, 130, 143, 151, 159ff, 161f , 185, 240, (309), KBT586]
Clemens KRAUSS (1893-1954)
Austrian conductor
[Berg 221, (391)]
*Ernst KRENEK >>FRIENDS
[Berg 234, 258, 364; Roth (159)]
{DEA }
(E.Krenek: Im Atem der Zeit. Erinnerungen an die Moderen S. 881)
Anton KUH ( 1890 Wien - 1942 New York)
Viennese journalist, writer and speaker. In 1938 he fled from Vienna to New York via Paris, where he was also a guest at Roth's regulars' table in the Café de la Post. SM hardly ever talks about his acquaintance with Kuh, only once that he often ate with him in a "Tschecherl" (simple Viennese restaurant) together with Tschuppik and Roth.
[Berg 60, (138), 333; Roth 98, 128, 172, 184, 191, 265]
Kurt S. LACHMANN ( 1899 Berlin - 1985 München)
German journalist, colleague of SM: foreign correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung. In exile from 1933.
[Berg 335; Roth 55]
Walter LANDAUER (1902 Berlin – 1944 Bergen Belsen)
Editor at Kiepenheuer Verlag, after 1933 publishing director of the "German department" of Allert de Lange Verlag, which became one of the most successful exile publishers under his leadership. Works together with Hermann Kesten; publisher, friend of Joseph Roth. After the occupation of the Netherlands, Landauer is murdered in a concentration camp. In 1938, SM von Paris corresponds with him, trying - in vain - to get his second novel published by the Amsterdam publisher.
[Roth 108, 131, 166, 190, 206, 279 ]
(The archive of the Allert de Lange publishing house in the IISG – Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam – contains three letters from SM to Landauer)
Fritz LANDSHOFF (1901 Berlin -1988 Haarlem) German-Dutch publisher, from 1933 head of the German-speaking exile department of the Amsterdam-based Querido publishing house.
[Roth 108, 131, 190, 206]
Else LASKER SCHÜLER (1869 Wuppertal – 1945 Jerusalem)
SM had met the poet in Berlin through his friend Ludwig Hardt.
Else Lasker Schüler was a distant relative of SM's wife Ingeborg (niece of her great-grandmother), which SM probably didn't even know himself. Anyhow Dan Morgenstern did not know.)
[Berg 81, 294f]
Henry-Louis LA GRANGE (1924 Paris - 2017 Switzerland)
Musicologist, Mahler biographer
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN . Korsika/ 1973}
Pierre LAVAL (1883-1945)
French politician. Executed for high treason in 1945.
[Roth 210ff]
Berta LEADER
[ - ]
{DEA / 1 / DE / London / 1959}
Arthur LEBERT
Helene Berg’s brother-in-law was married to her (half-)sister Anna Nahowski.
[Berg 151]
Alix LEO
Is related to Hans Ferdinand Redlich (see there)
[ - ]
{DEA / 1 / DE / München / 1961}
Theodor LESCHETIZKY (1830-1915)
Galician pianist and music teacher, active in Vienna from 1878. Piano teacher of SM's friend Renée
[Berg 50]
*Conrad LESTER >>FRIENDS
[Berg 359; Roth 125, 307, (Flucht 370)]
{DEA}
*Ludwig LEWISOHN >>FRIENDS
[Berg 352f; Roth 155]
{DEA}
Hans LIEBSTÖCKL (1872-1934)
Austrian music critic
[Berg 172, 304. 391]
*Hugo & Annie Renée LIFCZIS >>FRIENDS
[ Berg 379 ]
{DEA}
*Otto LIFCZIS (LIFF) >>FRIENDS
[Berg 365, 379]
{DEA}
Leopold LINDTBERG (1902 Wi Vienna -1984 Sils Maria, Switzerland)
Austrian-Swiss Jewish director
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Wien / 1958}
Eugen LÖBEL (1907 Slovakia – 1987 New York)
Marxist, minister in Czechoslovakia, moved to the USA after 1968. Jewish. Survived the anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia in 1952.
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / New York / 1975}
*Josef LÖBEL >>FRIENDS
[Berg 134; Roth 26, 78, 134, 138f, 168ff, 176, 284, 293]
LOIBUSCHER
Martin Fuchs's colleague in Paris in the (monarchist) Accueil français aux autrichiens (1938-1940) who was unfriendly to SM
[Roth 230, 232f]
Adolf LOOS (1870 Brünn [Brno] – 1933 Kalksburg (today part of Vienna))
Famous important Architect. SM met him several times in the (Schönbrunn) Café Stöckl (at the Schönbrunn castle) and dedicated a separate section to him in his memories of Berg.
[Berg 99f, 107-110, 218, 258, 329]
Malcom LOWRY (1909-1957) Author of the novel Under the Volcano appreciated by SM
[Roth 294]
Erich LUDENDORFF (1865-1937)
German general about whom Karl Tschuppik wrote a biograpy
[Roth 136]
György / Georg LUKÁCS (née LÖWINGER) (1885 Budapest – 1971 Budapest)
The Marxist literary critic and philosopher Lukács fled to Vienna after the failure of the Soviet Republic in Hungary and was part of the Hungarian exiles there in the early 1920s. Balázs introduced SM to Lukácz (and at the same time to Robert Musil) in 1921 or 1922 in the Café Stöckl in Hietzing, where they then had a small discussion about (Russian) literature.
[Berg 79; KBT 534ff, 641]
*Alma MAHLER-WERFEL >>FRIENDS
[Berg 47, 118f, 267, 307, 347, 358, 369; Zeit 322; KBT 676f, 693ff]
{DEA}
*Anna MAHLER >>FRIENDS
[Berg 273, Roth (304)]
{DEA 21/ DE/ Spoleto/1970-1095}
Gustav MAHLER (1860-1911)
the Austrian composer
[Berg 96, 308f; Zeit 336]
Fedor MAMROTH (1851-1907)
Chef of the Feuilleton division at the Frankfurter Zeitung
[Roth 46]
Andrea MANGA BELL, geb. JIMENEZ (1902 Hamburg – 1985 Paris)
Daughter-in-law of the King of Cameroon, partner of Joseph Roth in Paris until 1936.
She served as Klaus Mann's model for the character of Juliette Martens in his novel Mephisto.
[ Roth 100, 101, 105, 106,
107, 278, 293 ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Paris / 1976}
Harold MANHEIM
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / London / ?}
Heinrich MANN (1871 Lübeck – 1950 Santa Monica)
Known personally? – appears on SM's California phone list
[ -]
(RK)
Thomas MANN (1875 Lübeck – 1955 Zürich)
It is unclear to what extent SM and Thomas Mann knew each other personally. In 1938, Mann lobbied the American Guild for German Cultural Freedom to provide SM with financial support, and in 1942 Mann appears on SM's telephone list in Hollywood. SM did not particularly appreciate some of Mann's works, including his treatment of biblical figures.
[Berg 39, 107, 146, 350f; Roth 79, 127, 157; KBT 654f]
(RK)
Sophie MANNHEIM
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Tel Aviv / 1946(?)}
Valeriu MARCU (1899 Bukarest – 1942 New York)
German-speaking writer from a Jewish family in Bukovina, political journalist, friend of Joseph Roth. From 1933 in France, in 1941 (on the same ship as SM) to the USA.
[Roth 235, (307) ]
Han(n)s MARGULIES (1889 Sosnowitz-Sosnowiec, (russisch)Polen – 1960 London)
Austrian journalist (court reporter for the Viennese newspaper "Tag"), dramaturge at the Vienna Volksbühne. 1934-1937 artistic director of the political cabaret "ABC" ("Brettl im Alsergrund", Pozellangasse 1). Was engaged to Friedl, the later wife of Joseph Roth.
cf. page about Hans Margulies (written by his grandson)
[ Roth 150, 151]
*Moses MARGULIES / MARGALIOTH >>FRIENDS
[ Zeit 297, 371, 378f ]
{DEA}
Georg(e) MARTON (1899 Budapest – 1979 Hollywood)
Hungarian-Jewish literary agent, publisher, writer. Studied at the Sorbonne, 1925-1937 literary agent in Vienna, 1937-1939 in Paris and again in Paris for 20th Century Fox after the war until the 1960s. He only became a writer after his retirement.
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Quebec / 1946}
Aimee (Amy) Semple McPHERSON (1890-19447)
Canadian-American preacher
[Roth 266]
*Walter MEHRING >>FRIENDS
[Roth 215, 220]
Annemarie MEIER-GRAEFE (BROCH), née EPSTEIN (1905 Berlin -1994 Saint-Cyr-Mer)
Graphic artist and painter; married in 1925 to the art historian Julius Meier-Graefe, with whom she rented a property in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer in 1930, which later gave impetus to a German refugee colony in the neighboring Sanary-sur-Mer. Her husband died in 1935. She was often in Vienna, where she visited Anna Mahler, where she met Hermann Broch in early 1937, whom she married in 1949.
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / New York / 1947}
*Jacques de MENASCE (1905 Bad Ischl – 1960 Gstaad) & Georgette de Menasce >>FRIENDS
[Roth 104] {DEA}
Georg (eig. Juer David) MERKEL (1881 Lemberg – 1976 Wien)
Austrian Jewish painter, 1907 member of the Hagenbund in Vienna, 1909 moved to Paris; 1914 returned to Vienna, conscription, deployed to the front as a war painter. During the interbellum in Vienna, moved (like SM) in the circle of friends around Anna Mahler (Canetti wrote a eulogy for him in 1976 and writes about him in his autobiography Das Augenspiel). 1938 to Haute Cagnes near Paris, 1972 returned to Vienna.
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Cagnes / 1950}
Nance MEROWIT (1888-1978)
American lady in New York who worked for the American Guild for German Cultural Freedom for Austrians (e.g. SM, Uriel Birnbaum, Theodor Kramer, Hermina Zur Mühlen).
In January 1939 SM writes to her the following letter: (>>>Scan of the letter):
1.1.1939 Soma Morgenstern Paris 6e 18 rue de Tournon Hotel Poste
Liebe und verehrte Frau Nance Merowit, Ich habe grosse Schwierigkeiten und bitte Sie sehr, mir zu helfen: Mein amerikanisches Visum ist schon seit September bewilligt, aber auf dem Consulat sagt man mir, dass ich auf meine polnische Quota-Nummer noch mindestens bis Juli vielleicht aber sogar noch bis Dezember 1939 werde warten müssen. Es droht mir, weil das solange dauert, ausserdem eine Ausweisung aus Frankreich. Sie können sich denken wie verzweifelt ich bin. Bitte, sprechen Sie mit H. Stefan Zweig: vielleicht findet sich ein Weg, meine Quota-Nummer schnell zu bekommen. Meine Daten: Dr Morgenstern Salomo, Österreicher, seit März 1938 in Paris. Alles andere wissen Sie ja selbst. Ich wünsche Ihnen und Herrn Stefan Zweig ein gutes Neues Jahr und bin mit den herzlichsten Grüssen Ihr ergebener Soma Morgenstern.
Bitte um schnelle Hilfe per cabel an amerik. Consulat oder Gesandten.
Addition of Joseph Roth: Liebste Gnädige vielleicht können Sie und Stefan Zweig Morgenstern effektivst helfen. Wann sehen wir uns wieder? 1939? Dies wünsche ich mir – und Ihnen viel Besseres. Küsse Ihre liebe Hand, Ihr Joseph Roth
[The letter is in the archive of the American Guild for German Cultural Freedom]
Approximate translation of the letter:
Dear and esteemed Mrs. Nance Merowit, I am in great difficulty and I would like to ask you to help me: my American visa has been approved since September, but the consulate tells me that I will have to wait until at least July, but perhaps even until December 1939, for my Polish quota number. Because it is taking so long, I am also threatened with expulsion from France. You can imagine how desperate I am. Please speak to Mr. Stefan Zweig: perhaps a way can be found to get my quota number quickly. My details: Dr. Morgenstern Salomo, Austrian, in Paris since March 1938. You know everything else yourself. I wish you and Mr. Stefan Zweig a Happy New Year and am yours sincerely, Soma Morgenstern.
Please send a cable to the American consulate or envoy for immediate help.
Addition of Joseph Roth: Dearest lady, perhaps you and Stefan Zweig Morgenstern can help most effectively. When will we see each other again? 1939? That is what I wish for myself – and much better I wish for you. Kiss your dear hand, Your Joseph Roth
Aenne MICHALSKI (1908-1986) Czech soprano at the State Opera of Vienna.
[Berg 342 ]
Wilhelm MIKLAS (1872-1956) President of Austria
[Berg 337 ]
Nathan MILSTEIN (Odessa 1903 – London 1992)
Ukrainian-American violinist. "Einmal kam Nathan Milstein zum Abendessen [in das Elternhaus in der Belvederegasse in Wien] und sagte, ich hätte die Hände eines Geigers. [...]"* (Dan Morgenstern mentioning to Raphaela Kitzmantel, in: Eine Überfülle an Gegenwart. Soma Morgenstern. Biographie. Wien 2005)
*Once Nathan Milstein came to dinner [at the house of Dan´s parents in the Belvederegasse in Vienna] and said I had the hands of a violinist.
[ - ]
Dimitri MITROPOULOS (1896-1960) Greek conductor
[Berg 48 ]
Lothar MOHRENWITZ (1896 – 1960)
German literary agent and publishing director. In the 1930ies he emigrated to London and later to Switserland
[ - ]
{DEA 4 / DE / London / 1941-1957}
Alexander MOISSI (1880-1935)
Austrian outstanding actor
[Berg 303]
Franz MOLNAR (1878-1952)
Hongarian wirter, playwright
[Roth 110 ]
John MONASH (1865-1931)
British General. Highest ranking Jew in WW I.
[Roth 43 ]
Dan MORGENSTERN (October 24, 1929 Munich - September 7, 2024 Manhatten)
SM's son. Jazz authority
Dan Morgenstern lived the first nine years of his in life in Vienna. There he met - via his father - Alban Berg, Joseph Roth and some more personalities. SM reports about that quite extensivly in his mermoirs about Roth. Here is a part of a longer passage (translated from German; the book exists next to the German original also in French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch, but not yet in English.):
I went to my son in his room, where he was "dressing up" for the visit, to tell him that our guest used to drink a glass or two of cognac before dinner, and - "If our guest is the same famous Mr. Roth that you always talked about so much on our walks with Karl Tschuppik, I already know that he is a drunkard; do you think I'm deaf?" said my son. We went into the living room together. My son made his deepest bow to his guest. Joseph Roth, one of the most polite men of the century (who, like Ernest Renan, was polite to everyone, "even dogs"), stood up in front of the boy, shook his hand and returned the bow. "You are a big boy for your age," he said. "Yes," replied my son, "I have grown very quickly in recent years." Roth sat there beaming, his right hand very carefully reaching for the glass in front of him. But he quickly withdrew his hand, because my son was not the kind of man who would let a conversation stop. "I haven't read your books. Dad thinks I'm too stupid for that, but -" - "Dan," I warned him, "I don't remember exactly what I said, I certainly didn't say too stupid." - "You said too young; that's the same thing." ....
Dan Morgenstern probably was the last living person with personal memories about Roth and others. With the death of Dan Morgenstern likely the last ccontemporary witness´of Vienna´s intellectual (mostly Jewish) life in Vienna of the 1930ies is gone.
After the so-called Anschluss Dan escaped the now by Nazis ruled Vienna to Denmark and Sweden. Only after the war he came with his mother to his father in New York, were he stayed.
Dan M. was very committed to his father’s work, has handed over SM’s estate to the German (National) Library and has also published about him.
PUBLICATIONS:
- 2005: Soma Morgenstern´s Life in America in: Robert G. Weigl (Hrsg.) Vier große gailizische Erzähler im Exil: W.H. Katz, Soma Morgenstern, Manes Sperber und Joseph Roth. (New Yorker Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft Band 7), p.154-166, Frankfurt, Verlag Peter Lang
- 2012: Dan Morgenstern im Gespräch mit Sylvia Asmus in: S.Asmus (Hg.) So wurde ihnen die Flucht zur Heimat pp21-27, Bonn, Weidle Verlag
- 2014: Soma Morgenstern und die Musik in: J. Lajarrige (Hg.): Soma Morgenstern - Von Galizien ins amerikanische Exil, p197-209, Berlin, Frank&Thieme
Dan M has also contributed to events about his father:
CONFERENCES / MEETINGS:
- 2012: Frankfurt am Main, Deutsche Nationalbibiothek (on occasion of the exhibition "Soma Morgenstern und Jospeh Roth" )
- 2013: Toulouse, University (at the conference "Soma Morgenstern - Von Galzien ins amerikanische Exil")
Dan Morgenstern giving lectuere in Toulouse
- 2016: Vienna, Jewish Museum (Dan M. was in Vienna on occasion of revealing the memory plaque for SM at the last adress of the Morgensterns in Vienna; where Dan has lived his first nine years)
REVEALING THE MEMORY PLAQUE.
- 2019: Vienna, University (Video contribution in German at the meeting "Soma Morgenstern - an Austrian Jewish writer from Galicia - and the Ukrainy" on occasion of the presentation of the Ukrainian editition of SM´s memoirs of his youth):
[ Berg 313, (400); Roth 166, 172-177, 186, 192;KBT 683]
Helena MORGENSTERN (1883 Eastern Galicia – 1942 KZ Birkenau)
SM's sister
[ Roth 242; Zeit]
*Inge(borg) MORGENSTERN >>FRIENDS
[ Berg (19), 316; Roth 105, 166, 172, 175, (303) ]
{DEA}
Sara MORGENSTERN, geb. SCHWARZ (1859 Budzanow / Ostgalizien – 1942 KZ Theresienstadt)
SM's mother, was murdered in Theresienstadt, shortly after her 83rd birthday.
Todesanzeige in: (c) http://www.holocaust.cz
[ Roth 242; Zeit]
*Robert MUSIL >>FRIENDS
[Berg 18, 79, 122, 271, 299; Zeit 197f, 302-305; Roth 76-83, 112f, 131, 241, 287, 298, (301, 315, 328); KBT 534, 551-563, 641-644. 684]
Martha MUSIL (-MARCOVALDI, geb. HEINEMANN) (1874 – 1949)
Widow of Robert Musil
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Rom / 1948}
Anna NAHOWSKA, née NOVAK, married and divorced HEUDUK (1859 – 1931)
Mother of Helene Berg, lover of Emperor Franz Joseph I.
[ Berg 112 ]
Anna (Antschi) NAHOWSKA, geborene HEUDUK (1883 – 1973)
(Half-)sister of Helene Berg. Probably natural daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph, mother of the writer Hans Lebert.
[ Berg 151 ]
Franz Josef NAHOWSKI (1889 – 1943)
Bruder von Helene Berg. „Franzl“. "Ökonom", war ab 1930 voll entmündigt, Alban Berg war sein Kurator.
[ Berg 111-116, 242 ]
Fritz (Perez) NAPHTALI (1888 Berlin – 1961 Tel Aviv)
Business journalist, politician
[ - ]
{DEA 2 / DE / Jerusalem / 1958, 1959}
Hans NATONEK (1892 Königliche Weinberge, Austria-Hungary – 1963 Tucson, USA)
H.N. 1939, Drawing by Bil(l) Spira. Reproduced with kind permission of Lehmstedt Verlag, Leipzig
German-speaking journalist and writer from Bohemia; German citizen from 1928; German citizenship revoked in 1934 and emigrated to Prague; escaped to Paris in 1938; escaped from Paris in 1940; in the USA from 1941 (US citizen from 1946).
In 1938/39 Natonek moved in Paris in the circle around Joseph Roth and was also in contact with SM, as can be seen from SM's brief correspondence with Max Riccabona, who was also there at the time. In 1957 Natonek visited Europe with his (third) wife and was in Paris with SM at the same time. SM answers Max Riccabona's letter of December 30, 1963, in response to his question about Natonek: "[...] Unfortunately, Hans Natonek died here in America a few months ago. I last saw him in Paris in 1957, where he looked completely unchanged, i.e. very young, and newly married." (Hans Natonek had already married his third wife in 1949.)
[ - ]
{ - }
cf also entry about Max RICCABONA.
There is a biography about Hans Natonek that is worth reading: Steffi Böttger: Für immer fremd. Das Leben des jüdischen Schriftstellers Hans Natonek.(Forever a stranger. The life of the Jewish writer Hans Natonek) Lehmstedt Verlag, Leipzig, 2013. There are no references to SM in Hans Natonek's estate (kind information from Ms. Steffi Böttger).
Hermann NEUBACHER (1893 Wels – 1960 Vienna)
National Socialist mayor of Vienna (1938-1940), but previously got along well with SM.
[Roth 242f ]
Robert NEUMANN (1897 Wien – 1975 Munich)
The Austrian-British author has founded in London in 1939 the "Free Austrian PEN Club"
In a letter dated March 15, 1940 SM asks him to become member of this club. The letter is archived in Vienna at the DÖW (Documentary Archive of the Austrian Resistance - DÖW 11.548/13)
[-]
Ignace NEUMARK (1888 Plock – 1959 The Hague)
Polish-Dutch conductor
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / FR / Scheveningen / 1946}
Danny NEWMAN (1919 – 2007)
Press Officer of the Lyric Opera of Chicago
[ - ]
{DEA 15/EN/Chicago/1950-1956 [+1971]}
Max NORDAU (1849-1923)
Co-founder of the World Zionist Organization
[Roth 11 ]
*Renée NOSSAL >>FRIENDS
[ -]
{DEA 9 / DE /Wahroonga, Australia / 1955-1974}
Ernst Erich NOTH (Paul Albert KRANTZ) (1909 Berlin – 1983 Bensheim)
German left-wing writer and literary scholar, from 1929 freelance contributor to the Frankfurter Zeitung, March 1933 escaped to Paris, where he often met Joseph Roth. Indirectly through the Frankfurter Zeitung he also met SM, as he reports in his memoirs:
" Heinrich Simon vermittelte [wohl 1932 GBD] eine Einladung auf das abgelegene oberbayrische Landgut seiner Schwester Frau Annemarie von Klenau. Hier traf ich den österreichischen Journalisten und Schriftsteller Soma Morgenstern, der mit der ältesten Klenautochter verheiratet war. Er war reglemäßiger Mitarbeiter der FZ und berichtete vornehmlich über das Wiener Kunst- und Geistesleben. Außerdem war er, wie Kracauer, in den Film vernarrt. Als Kritiker, aber auch in Privatdiskussionen, setze er sich damals leidenschaftlich für das Wek seines Lansmannes und Freundes Hermann Broch ein, dessen "Schlafwandler" in literarischen Kreisen Aufsehen zu erregen begannen." (Ernst Erich Noth: Erinnerungen eines Deutschen, Classen, Hamburg und Düsseldorf. 1971, S. 230-231)
Translation: Heinrich Simon arranged an invitation [probably in 1932 GBD] to the remote Upper Bavarian estate of his sister Annemarie von Klenau. Here I met the Austrian journalist and writer Soma Morgenstern, who was married to the eldest daughter of Klenau. He was a regular contributor to the FZ and reported primarily on Viennese art and intellectual life. He was also, like Kracauer, fond of film. As a critic, but also in private discussions, he passionately supported the work of his fellow countryman and friend Hermann Broch, whose "Sleepwalkers" was beginning to attract attention in literary circles.
[ - ]
{-}
Clifford ODETS (1906 Philadelphia – 1963 Glendale)
Jewish American playwright and screenwriter; actor
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / Los Angeles / 1944}
Johannes (später John M.) OESTERREICHER (1904 Libau/Moravia – 1993 Livingston, N.J.)
Austrian catholic cleric of Jewish origin. Exile 1938 to France, 1940 to USA. Has taken part of the celebration at the funeral of J. Roth in Paris in 1939.
[ Roth 274, 276, 279]
{DEA: Part of a letter from SM in New York to Oesterreicher. without date}
Jacques OFFENBACH (1819-1880) Composer
[Berg 27 ]
Immanuel OLSVANGER (1888 Grajewo, Poland – 1961 Jerusalem)
Jewish folklorist, journalist.
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / Jerusalem / ?}
Eugen ORMANDY (Jenõ Blau) (1899 Budapest – 1985 Philadelphia)
Hungarian-American conductor
[Berg 127]
*Fedor (Fjodor) OZEP >>FRIENDS
[ - ]
(RK)
Eugenio PACELLI, Pius XII (1876-1958)
From 1939 Pope
[Roth 215; KBT 657 ]
Karl O. PAETEL (1906 Berlin – 1975 New York)
German journalist, publicist. 1935-1940 exiled in Paris, then in New York.
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / New York / 1941}
Max PALLENBERG (1877-1934)
Austrian actor, comedian
[Roth 64f ]
Daniel PASMANIK (1869 Hadjatsch, Ukraine – 1930 Paris)
Russian Zionist writer, Marxist, who strangely enough collobarated in the Russion civil war with the partly radicylly antisemitc Wrangel´s White Army.
SM followed in the school in Tarnopol his three month course about Karl Marx´ Das Kapital.
[ Zeit 297-299]
Magarita PAZI (1920 Böhmen – 1997)
Germanist at the University of Tel Aviv. Publications on German-Jewish literature, including Max Brod, Ernst Weiss.
[ - ]
{DEA 3 / DE / Berlin / 1972-73}
Hertha PAULI (1906 Wien -1973 New York)
Austrian (-American) writer and actress (sister of Wolfgang Pauli). Close friends with Ödön von Horvath, Walter Mehring and Karl Frucht, among others
Pauli fled Vienna after the so-called Anschluss and came across Roth and his circle of friends in Paris, where she met SM, who, however, did not mention her in his notes. In her "book of experiences" Der Riss der Zeit geht durch mein Herz (The Crack of Time Goes Through My Heart), she wrote about SM several times: "Nie fehlten dort [an Roths Stammtisch] Roths Jugendfreund Soma Morgenstern, ein Heimatdichter aus Galizien, von wo sie beide stammten, und eine schöne, dunkelhäutige Frau, die Roth wie ein Schatten durchs Exil begleitete." ("Never missing there [at Roth's regulars' table] were Roth's childhood friend Soma Morgenstern, a local poet from Galicia, where they both came from, and a beautiful, dark-skinned woman who accompanied Roth like a shadow through exile.") (p.46 - SM would probably not have agreed with the term "Heimatdichter"(local poet).. "Joseph Roth erschien in der Tür, von Maga Bell, der dunklen Gelibten, und Soma Morgenstern [...] wie von zwei Schatten begleitet." (p.88) ( "Joseph Roth appeared in the doorway, accompanied by Maga Bell, the dark lover, and Soma Morgenstern [...] as if by two shadows.")
[ - ]
(Hertha Pauli, Der Riß der Zeit geht durch meine Herz, Zsolnay Verlag, Wien 1970, S. 46, 85, 88, 96)
Pinchas PELI (eig. HACOHEN) (1930 Jerusalem -1989 Jerusalem)
Israel. modern-orthodox rabbi and professor for Hebrew and Judaistic studies at the Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba. He had helped SM by arranging the Hebrew translation (by Manfred Winkler) of "The Third Pillar".
[ Blutsäule-Kommentar 12 ]
{DEA 6 / EN / Jerusalem / 1974-75}
Sigismund PELLER (1890 Tarnopol – 1985 San Diego)
Doctor. Director of the Vienna City Health Office. 1934 to Palestine, 1939 to the USA, medical practice in New York until 1968.
[ - ]
{ DEA 12 / DE / Tel Aviv / 1969-1974}
Leo PERUTZ (1882 Prague – 1957 Bad Ischl)
Austrian Jewish writer from Prague; from 1905, mainly in Vienna, fled to Palestine in 1398, and re-adopted Austrian citizenship in 1952. SM's report only reveals that Perutz and SM knew each other personally.
[Berg 59]
Erich PFEIFFER-BELLI (1901 Heidelberg – 1989 Munich)
Journalist (also at Frankfurter Zeitung) and writer
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Munich / 1975}
Hans PFITZNER (1869-1949)
German composer sympathetic to the Nazis
[Roth 127 ]
André PHILIP (1902-1970)
French politician, leader of a resistance organization
[Roth 232 ]
Marie Georges PICQUART (1854-1914)
French general, friends with Gustav Mahler
[Berg 96 ]
Clemens PIRQUET (1894-1929)
Austrian doctor (and brother of the space pioneer) who “discovered” allergy.
[Berg 167 ]
*Olivier de PIERREBOURG >>FRIENDS
[Roth 195f, 207, 232, 252, 277; KBT 685]
{DEA}
Erwin PISCATOR (1893 Ulm – 1966 Sternberg)
Theater director, producer. Not clear whether personally acquainted with SM.
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Berlin / 1964}
Paul PISK (1893 Vienna – 1990 Los Angeles)
Austrian music critic, musicologist, critic, composer
[Berg (27), 234]
Rudolf PLODERER (1884-1933 Wien - Suizid)
Lawyer in Vienna, close friends with Schönberg, Berg and Webern. Co-founder of the music magazine “23” and visitor to the Café Museum.
[Berg 237]
Erich PODACH (1894 Budapest – 1967 Heidelberg)
Writer, ethnologist, from, as SM correctly suspects, a (German-)Hungarian-Jewish family.
[KBT 685]
Alfred POLGAR (urspr. POLAK) (1873 Wien – 1955 Zürich)
Austrian writer, aphorist. Appreciated by MS as a writer (at least initially) (cf. KBT p. 14f), but not as a character: MS reports in a letter to Gershom Scholem that Polgar deliberately thwarted SM's first attempt to escape from France across the Spanish border in 1940 (KBT p. 507)
[Berg 284, 295; Roth 78, 298; KBT 14f; 507]
Marc POULAIN
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Frankfurt / 1971}
Joachim PRINZ (1902-1988)
German rabbi, Zionist. ("best tennis player among the rabbis")
[Roth 236 ]
Marcel PROUST (1871-1922)
writer
[Roth 103,161, 299, (319); Zeit 306 ]
Max RAPPAPORT
lawyer
[ - ]
{DEA 2 / DE / London / 1946, 1947}
*Karol RATHAUS >>FRIENDS
*Gerta RATHAUS
[Berg 24f, 29, 50, 118, 131, 304; Roth 33, 36, 94, 96, 104f, 114f, 118, 120, 191, 240, 284, 285, (304, 306); Zeit 186f, 307, 330, 349; Flucht (373f) ]
{DEA }
Rudolf RATHAUS (1900? – 1968?)
Polish economist, diplomat, activist
[ - ]
{DEA 8 / PL / New York/ 1957}
Walter RATHENAU (1867-1922)
German Jewish liberal politician, Foreign Minister, victim of a political assassination
[Berg 102; Zeit 363]
*Erwin RATZ >>FRIENDS
[Berg 49]
Hans Ferdinand REDLICH (1903 Wien – 1968 Manchester)
Austrian composer and musicologist, and writer (including "Alban Berg, the Man and His Music", 1957). 1939 to Great Britain
[ - ]
{DEA 2 / DE / Edinburgh / 1961}
Willi REICH (1898 Wien – 1980 Zürich)
Musicologist, student and friend of Alban Berg, co-founder of the music magazine “23”. First biographer of Berg.
[Berg 125]
Marek REICHMANN
[ - ]
{DEA 2 / DE / Sao Paulo / 1967}
*Benno REIFENBERG >>FRIENDS
[ Roth (51), 75, 113, 121f, 203, 204, 205]
{DEA}
Edward R. REILLY (1929 Virginia – 2004 New York)
American musicologist at the University of Georgia (Athens). Publications on Mahler, Guido Adler.
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / Athens, Georgia/ 1964}
Max REINHARDT (1873 Baden bei Wien – 1943 New York)
In 1925, SM was in contact with the Theater in der Josefstadt and was supposed to start work there in October, but this probably never happened. In this context, SM may have had direct contact with Reinhardt, who was managing the theater at the time.
[ Berg (143), 164]
(RK; Schulte , Nachwort zu Dramen, Feuilletons, Fragmente, S. 472}
Alfred J. REIS (1882 Wien – 1951 New Brunswick, NJ, USA)
Austrian physicist, whom Einstein rescued and brought to the USA. Studied chemistry and physics in Vienna and Strasbourg, 1913-1928 lecturer and professor of physical chemistry at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, 1930-1933 at the Technical University of Berlin. Expelled in 1933 and sent to France, and in 1941 to the USA. SM fled with him through France and portrays him (indirectly) in his work „Flucht in Frankreich“.
[Roth 223; Zeit 301, Flucht(407)]
Erich REISS (1887 Berlin – 1951 New York)
German publisher who was still allowed to publish Jewish authors after 1933 – like SM's Son of the Lost Son. Musil put SM in touch with Reiss.
[Roth 131, 132, (329); KBT643]
Erich REMARQUE (1898 Osnabrück – 1970 Locarno)
German writer who once met SM in person. The meeting may have come about through Alma Mahler-Werfel, as one can assume from his diary entry (translated from German):
March 26 [1951. New York] [...] In the evening at Alma Werfel's. Drank. With Soma Morgenstern to El Morocco. Met Gontard. With a girl related to Oscar Straus. Alone, after being with Inwald and Soma in a new Monte Proser place, went to the Golden Keys Club. Sat there. Back in the morning light. Hangover. Telephones. Walked. Spoke to Gontard. Alma. Margot. Ruth. Kater. Clear sky. Why am I drinking?
Quoted with thanks to T.Schneider, Erich Maria Remarque Peace Center, Osnabrück
[Berg 349]
*RENÉE >>FRIENDS
[ Berg 105,355; Roth 28, 31; KBT 645 ]
Karl RENNER (1870-1950)
Austrian president
[Berg 338]
Max von RICCABONA (1915 Feldkirch – 1997 Lochau, Vorarlberg)
Austrian painter and writer who met SM in exile in Paris.
[Roth 271f]
{DEA 1 / DE / Feldkirch, Vorarlberg/ 1963}
(Das Felder Archiv in Innsbruck enthält Morgensterns Gegenbrief; vgl auch Petra Nachbaur in EXIL (Edita Koch) Nr. 2. 2001, Frankfurt/M)
Rainer Marie RILKE (1875 Prague – 1926 bei Montreux)
SM met the Bohemian-Austrian poet in Paris.
[Roth 94, 231, 286]
Maxim RIVOS
Russian historian, private scholar, whom SM knew in Casablanca in 1941.
[Roth 37f]
Harry ROBIN
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / Hollywood/ 1957}
David Mostyn ROBINS
Germanist at the University of Exeter; The letter to SM concerns J.Roth
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / Hollywood/ 1972}
Alexander RODA RODA (Rosenfeld) (1872 Dirnowitz, Moravia – 1945 New York)
Austrian writer. He frequented the Café Museum in Vienna (with SM). Roda Roda celebrated New Year's Eve 1944/1945, his last, in a small circle with SM in New York.
Roda Roda with Carl Rössler in the Café Museum 1934. (c) unclear - taken from Brandstätter/Schweiger: Das Wiener Kaffehaus, Wien-München-Zürich, Fritz Molden 1978
[Berg 134]
(Roda Roda Tagebuch – Nachlass: Siehe R. Hackermüller, RR Bildbiographie, Herold Wien 1986, S.248)
Susan RODGERS LIDDINS
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / USA/ 1973}
Arthur ROSEN
Editor
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / New York / 1956}
Jacob ROSENHEIM (1870 Frankfurt – 1965 Jerusalem)
>> Buchcover (Erinnerungen 1870-1920, Frankfurt 1970)
Rabbi and publisher. Founder and president of Agudas Yisroel. Has enthusiastically praised SM's "Son of the lost Son."
[ Roth 112 ]
{DEA 2 / DE / London / 1936, 1941}
Leon Eliser ROSENZWEIG siehe Leon ROTH
Arthur A. ROSIN (1896 Nordeheim, Baden-W. – 1963), Elvira ROSIN
[ - ]
{DEA 2 / DE / London / 1957}
Carl RÖSSLER (Franz Reßner) (1864 Wien – 1949 London)
Carl Rössler with Roda Roda in the Café Museum in 1934. (c) unclear - taken from Brandstätter/Schweiger: Das Wiener Kaffehaus, Wien-München-Zürich, Fritz Molden 1978
Austrian Jewish actor and (comedy) writer. Friends with Wedekind and with Roda Roda, with whom he also wrote works together and who wrote numerous anecdotes about him. Lived in Germany (Berlin, then Munich), from 1933 back in Vienna, in 1939 in England. From 1935 partner of Henriette von Cleve. SM was with him - together with Roda Roda and Dr. Josef Löbel - in the Café Museum.
[Berg 134,136]
*Josef ROTH >>FRIENDS
[Roth: mehr oder weniger das ganze Buch, etwa 260 Erwähnungen; KBT 644, 661, 678-684, 689; Zeit 19, 173f, 354 ]
{DEA }
*Leon ROTH-ROSENZWEIG >>FRIENDS
[Roth 7-10; Zeit 184, 233ff, 251-253, 255, 258, 268, 271f, 279, 281, 284, 288f, 292- 294, 297, 335, 348-350, 353, 357, 371f, 378 ]
{DEA }
Friedl (Friederike) ROTH née. REICHLER (1900 Vienna – 1940 murdered in Hartheim next to Linz)
Wife of Joseph Roth, former fiancée of Hanns Margulies. Married Joseph Roth in 1922 in the Pazmanite Temple in Vienna according to Orthodox rites. http://www.ancestryhost.org/margulies/_margulies/img/roth-mcert.jpg She later became mentally ill. In 1932 Joseph Roth wrote to SM asking him to ensure that his wife was moved from an expensive private sanatorium, which he could no longer afford, to a state institution; SM, together with Ministerialrat Bernhard Fuchs and lawyer Hugo Wolf, placed her in an institution in Baden near Vienna, where she remained until she was taken to Hartheim Castle to be murdered in the Nazi gas chamber in Hartheim.
"She was a pretty girl, Friedl. Slender, with long legs, a finely cut face and a smug smile around her small mouth. But why this description? Roth described her very precisely in Job. She is Mendel Singer's daughter, "a gazelle". Like Friedl, she ends up in a mental institution." (translated from German - SM, Roth, p. 151)
[Roth 35, 52ff, 58, 60, 145, 150, 151, 156, 175f; KBT 657]
Th. ROTHFELD
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Milan / 1950}
Alix de ROTHSCHILD (née. Schey von Koromla) (1911 Frankfurt – 1982 Reux, France)
She comes from a Jewish Hungarian noble family. Married to Baron Guy de Rothschild, patriarch of the French branch of the Rothschilds, since 1937. In 1939 she intervened on SM's behalf with the camp commandant in the Montargis internment camp.
[ Roth 196 ]
{DEA 1 / EN / Paris / 1957}
Hans SAHL (SALOMON) (1902 Dresden – 1993 Tübingen)
German anti-fascist writer. In 1933 he went into exile in Paris. In 1939 he went to French internment camps, in 1940 to Marseille, helped Varian Fry to rescue the persecuted, in 1941 on the same ship as SM to New York. There he stayed in the same Park Plaza hotel as SM. In the summer of 1942 or 1943 he met his friend Marcel Faust (initially by chance) in Cape Cod.
Hans Sahl mentioned Morgenstern in interviews, but SM is not mentioned in his written memoirs.
[ - ]
(RK; personal information Marcel Faust)
Leah SALISBURY (1983?-1975?)
(Uncertain information: NY literary and theatrical agent? Columbia university? 1953 play agent in NY of the play "The Diary of Anne Frank" ?)
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / New York / 1959}
Hedwig SALZER geb, Lemberger-Lindtberg (1904 Wien – 2000 New York)
Wife of Felix Salzer (1904 Vienna -1986), an Austrian-American musicologist, fled to the USA in 1939)
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / New York / 1956}
*Maurice SAMUEL (1895 Macin, Rumänien – 1972 New York)
Romanian-British-American writer and translator; has partially proofread the translation of the third part of SM's Sparks in the Abyss.
[ KBT 646 ]
{DEA 3 / EN / New York ua / 1946-1972}
Adele SANDROCK (1864 – 1937) Prominent Viennese actress
[Roth 70f ]
Salomon SCHECHTER (1850 – 1915) Hebrew scholar, teacher, among others in Cambridge.
[Roth 179, 181 ]
Josef Wilhelm Freiherr von SCHENK (1858 probably Stanislau or Tarnopol – 1944 probably Vienna)
The "Galician" Baron was the brother of Helene von Szajnocha-Schenk, whom Joseph Roth had met in 1915 and who (according to J. Wittlin) played an important role for Roth. In 1916/17, von Schenk was the Imperial and Royal Minister of Justice. Roth visited Schenk in Vienna, whom he had probably met through his sister, together with SM.
[Roth 39-45]
Hermann SCHERCHEN (1891 – 1966) German conductor, important interpreter of the Second Viennese School
[Berg (129, 388) ]
David SCHERF (1899 Kimplung, Bukowina – 1977 New York)
doctor; fled from Vienna to New York in 1938
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / New York / 1972}
Volker SCHERLIESS
German musicologist; has also published (1975) on Alban Berg
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Rom / 1973}
Baron Josef von SCHEY (1853 – 1938)
Prominent Austrian legal scholar who taught at the University of Vienna and Graz. Father of Irma Simon, father-in-law of Heinrich Simon.
[Roth 62]
Béla SCHICK (1877 Balatonboglár [Sankt Egidi] (Austria-)Hungaty - 1967 New York)
Austrian doctor, grew up in Graz, professor at the University of Vienna until 1923, head of the children's department of hospitals in New York from 1923; developed a test for diphtheria vaccination named after him. SM met him in New York.
[Zeit 34]
*Dawid SCHMETTERLING - GILEAD >>FRIENDS
[Zeit 297f, 337, 351-361, 351, 371, 378]
{DEA}
Franz SCHNEIDERHAN (1863-1938?)
Cultural functionary (uncle of the violinist Wolfgang Sch.) 1926-1933 General Director of the Austrian Federal Theatres. Not appreciated by Berg and SM.
[Berg 153, (390)]
Arthur SCHNITZLER (1862 – 1931)
[Roth 99, 298]
Othmar SCHOECK (1886 im Kanton Schwyz - 1957 Zurich)
Swiss conductor and composer
[ Berg 178 ]
Gershom SCHOLEM (1897 Berlin – 1982 Jerusalem)
Philosopher and historian of religion; correspondence with SM on Walter Benjamin, which is largely reproduced in KBT.
[KBT 505ff]
{DEA 15 / DE / Jerusalem / 1963-1973}
Arnold SCHÖNBERG (1874 Vienna – 1951 Los Angeles)
SM knew him in Vienna and later met him again in Hollywood.
[Berg 8, 9, 15ff, 25, 34ff, 95,135,138f, 161, 293,297, 310, 320f, 348ff, 356-359; Roth 72, (74), 105, (147, 309)]
Katharina SCHRATT (1855 – 1940)
Friend of Emperor Franz Joseph. SM's very last newspaper article is dedicated to the memory of Katharina Schratt (in Freies Österreich / La Libre Autriche, Paris, May 1, 1940).
[Berg 76, 112]
Walter SCHRENK (1893 – 1954)
German music critic
[Berg 24]
Hugo SCHULZ (1870 Vienna - 1933 Vienna)
Viennese social-democratic journalist, author and military expert;
SM met him as friend of Joseph Roth.
Detailed article about Schulz only in German.
[Roth 57-65, 136]
Maurice SCHUMANN (1911 Paris – 1998 Paris Angeles)
French Catholic politician of Alsatian-Jewish origin.
[Roth 236]
Adolf SCHWARZ (1911 Tarnopol (?) – 1942 Auschwitz (?))
Son of Klara Schwarz-Morgenstern, SM's sister, who survived (died in an accident in Israel in 1953). SM's estate also includes a letter from Adolf Schwarz to his mother and his sister Bertha.
{DEA 1 / DE / Camp de Pigne G.T.E., Bram, Aude in Frankreich / 1941}
Bertha SCHWARZ (1915 Vienna – ca.1995 England)
Son of SM's sister Klara Schwarz-Morgenstern, sister Adolf Schwarz. SM's estate also includes a letter from Adolf Schwarz to sister Bertha.
{DEA 1 / DE / London / 1941}
Jacob SCHWARZ (1907 Tarnopol – ? Haifa?)
Son of SM's sister Klara Schwarz-Morgenstern. From 1914 in Vienna, (1939?) fled from Austria to Israel.
{DEA 20 / DE / Haifa / 1946-1970}
Johann II Fürst zu SCHWARZENBERG (1860 Vienna -1938 Vienna)
[Roth 103 ]
Andrej SHEPTYZKY (1865 Prylbytschi , Eastern Galicia – 1944 Lemberg)
Archbishop of Lviv, Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Scheptytskyj was committed to the Jews in 1941/42, campaigned against the Holocaust and housed numerous Jews in Greek Catholic monasteries.
In his "In Another Time", Morgenstern devotes a section to the bishop's visit to the village where Soma Morgenstern lived at the time. The young Morgenstern sang for the bishop with his father's approval.
We owe the identification of the bishop to Ms. Halyna Petrosaniak.
[Zeit p83-85]
Fritz SEELIG (1890-1968)
Viennese author (1937: Drei Offiziere - Roman des Vergangenen)
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Wien / 1964}
Ludwik SEIDENMANN (1906 Warsaw? – 2003 New York)
Lawyer; Jewish; came to the USA in 1945
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / New York / 1967}
Karl SEITZ (1869 -1950)
Mayor of Vienna
[Roth 126 ]
Milton Ch. SELIGMAN(N) (1866 – 1948) and Marie B. SELIGMAN(N) geb. GANS (1877-1969)
Wealthy Frankfurt hosts of Berg, Webern. Music lovers
[Berg 207 ]
Israel SHENKER (1925 Philadelphia – 2007 Kibbutz Shoval)
NYT-Reporter; Yiddist
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / New York / 1974}
Friedrich SIEBURG (1893 -1964)
from 1926 correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung in Paris
[Roth 240 ]
Georg SIMMEL (1858 -1918)
German philosopher and sociologist, descended from a family that converted to Christianity; valued by SM.
[Roth 179 ]
Heinrich SIMON (1880 Berlin – 1941 Washington)
Brother of SM's mother-in-law; married since 1917 to Irma, née von Schey, from Vienna. Leading managerial position in the Frankfurter Zeitung until 1934, when he had to resign as a baptized Jew. Via Paris to Tel Aviv; there co-founder and director of the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1939 to Washington D.C., where he gave music lessons. Murdered in 1941.
[Berg 121, 277, 390; Roth 49, 62, 112, 113, 153, 203, 232, 315f; KBT 661]
{DEA 2 / DE / ? / 1940?}
Irma SIMON geb von SCHEY (1894 Graz oder Wien – 1983 USA)
Daughter of the prominent legal scholar Josef von Schey. After attending Mrs Schwarzwald's school in Vienna, she attended the University of Vienna. Married Heinrich Simon in 1917. Befriended Max Beckmann (for whom she was important and whom she brought to Vienna in 1920). (Presumably with her husband in 1939 to Washington D.C. SM met her as a guest in the Simon house in Frankfurt.
[ Roth 62 ]
Marcel SIMON (1907 – 1986)
French religious scholar
[KBT 685]
Therese SIMON-SONNEMAN(N) (1855 Frankfurt? - nach 1935 Berlin)
grandmother of SM's wife Ingeborg (cf. Family tree). SM had already visited her in Berlin in 1926.
[Berg 164 ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Berlin / 1935}
*Abraham SONNE >>FRIENDS
[Roth 144f, 162, 167ff, 170, 171, 176, 180, 182f, (304, 312, 329); KBT 642]
John M. SPALEK (1928 Warsaw - 2021 Philadelphia)
American Germanist, Nestor of German exile literature studies; through his mediation, SM's estate came to the exile archive of the German National Library in Frankfurt
[ - ]
{DEA 2 / DE / New York / 1972}
Dorothea SPEYER
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / New York / 1943}
Bil SPIRA (1913 Wien - 1999 Paris)
Bil Spira, self-portrait from the 1930s. Reproduced with kind permission of Dr. Oliver Bentz. (C): Original owned by Oliver Bentz, Speyer. All rights reserved by Dr. Oliver Bentz. Photo Bentz.jpg.
Viennese illustrator who was able to flee to Paris after the so-called Anschluss of Austria to Nazi Germany, where he joined Joseph Roth's circle of friends in the Café de la Poste. He portrayed many of this group. Later he worked for Varian Fry in Marseille as a document forger for the persecuted. Spira's Paris drawings from 1939 also include several portraits of Morgenstern, for example this one:
Reproduced with kind permission of the Theodor Kramer Society
In his autobiography Die Legende vom Zeichner, Spira briefly mentions SM: "Roth's court included the writers Soma Morgenstern, Hans Natonek, Hermann Kesten, Friedrich Torberg [...]"
[ - ]
Bil Spira, Die Legende vom Zeichner Wien - Vernet - Groß-Rosen - Paris, Döcker Verlag, Wien 1997. S. 74
Daniel SPITZER (1835 – 1893)
Viennese columnist highly esteemed by SM
[Berg 72 ]
Armin SPRINGER (1870 -1942)
Viennese actor and comedian; murdered in Treblinka.
[Roth 140 ]
Ernst Rüdiger STARHEMBERG (1899 – 1936)
Austrian Austrofascist politician whom SM attacked in a newspaper article in 1930 when he was Minister of the Interior.
[Berg 338; Roth 93, 128 ]
Ludvik STAUB
Canadian heart surgeon?
[ - ]
{DEA 2 / EN / Haifa, Toronto / 1963, 1966}
Erwin STEIN (1885 Wien – 1958 London)
Austrian (Protestant) musicologist of Jewish descent, conductor; champion of the music of Schoenberg and his circle; friends with Alban Berg. 1938 Escaped from Vienna to London.
[ Berg 126, 248 ]
STENDHAL (1783 – 1842)
For SM, Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir was one of the best novels in world literature. SM's "admiration for the man Stendhal is limited".
[Berg 318-321; KBT658 ]
Desider STERN (1907 Breslau – 2000 Vienna)
Collector and documentalist, from 1949 in Vienna. Editor of the handbook "Werke von Autoren jüdischer Herkunft in deutscher Sprache" (Works by authors of Jewish origin in German) 1967-1970; author of a short biography of SM
[ - ]
{DEA 2 / DE / Wien / 1966, 1970}
James STERN (1904 Irland – 1993 Wien), Tania STERN geb. KURELLA (1904 Breslau - 1995 Wiltshire, UK)
James: English writer (with partial German-Jewish roots);
Tanja: physiotherapist and translator (German-English), in Berlin until 1933, then Paris (where she met James), from 1939 NY, after the war in the UK.
The couple were close friends with W.H. Auden, and together translated works by Kafka (letters), Freud, Hofmannsthal, and others into English.
SM knew Stern's wife Tania from his time in Berlin.
[ Roth 192 ]
{DEA 5 / DE / Wien / 1955, 1963}
Adalbert Graf STERNBERG (1868 – 1930)
enfant terrible of the Austrian high aristocracy
[ Roth 143, 271 ]
*Eduard / Edward STEUERMANN >>FRIENDS
[Berg 14, 25, 27, 29, 51,121, 176, 248, 309f, 342, 353ff; Roth 160, (304); KBT 655]
{DEA}
Herbert STÖRK (STOERK) (1908 Vienna – 1978 New York)
Scientific physician. Son-in-law of Friederike Zweig. Was part of the group around Roth in the Café Tournon around 1938.
[ Roth 275 ]
Richard STRAUSS (1864 – 1949)
not very appreciated by SM
[Berg 294ff, 339, Roth 85]
Igor STRAWINSKI (1882 – 1991)
highly valued by SM
[Roth 73]
Joachim STUTSCHEWSKY (1891 Rommy in Russia– 1982 Tel Aviv)
Composer, cellist, musicologist, music editor; 1924-1927 member of the Kolisch Quartet (close to Schoenberg). In 1933, for financial reasons, the Morgensterns sublet two rooms of their apartment in Vienna - to Stutschewsky. In 1938 he fled from Austria to Palestine. There he found, among other things, an extensive collection of Jewish folk music (now in a music archive in Tel Aviv).
[ Berg 258 ]
{DEA 1 / DE / Tel Aviv / 1976}
Marie SYRKIN (1899 Bern – 1989 USA)
American Jewish poet; commitment to Israel.
[ - ]
{DEA 5 / EN / New York / 1966}
Margarete TENTLAR
A Viennese woman who writes to SM about how much she appreciates SM's novel The Son of the Prodigal Son.
[ - ]
{DEA 5 / DE / Wien / 1935}
Hanna THIMIG née. WISSER (1894-1989)
Austrian actress (films: 1918 Der Voluntär, 1919 Die Insel der Grlücklichen). First wife of Hermann Thimig: 1919-1929. Maid of honour of Ingeborg Morgenstern-Klenau
Hermann THIMIG (1890 Vienna – 1982 Vienna)
Actor through whom SM came into contact with the Theater in der Josefstadt. SM was probably friends with Hermann around 1925, but never mentions him (apart from the letters from that time). Hermann, unlike his sister, stayed in Vienna during the Nazi era and received high Nazi awards.
Helene THIMIG (1889 Vienna – 1974 Vienna)
actress, sister of Hermann Thimig, partner of Max Reinhardt, with whom she also went into American exile.
[ Berg (143 Hermann),154„Thimigs“, 165 Helene]
(RK)
Dorothy THOMPSON (1893 New York – 1961 Lissabon)
American journalist and writer. Around 1920 also a correspondent in Vienna, then in Berlin. Had contact with Ödön von Horvat, Brecht, Zweig, among others. Was expelled from Germany. Helped in the USA during World War II with the naturalization of German and Austrian emigrants. Through her intervention (together with Stefan Zweig) she brought about SM's release from the French concentration camp Montargis in 1939.
[ Roth 196 ]
{DEA 1 / DE / New York / 1941}
Ernst TOLLER (1893 Posen – 1939 New York, Suicid)
German left-wing writer who fled to the USA in 1933. His suicide was a shock for Roth.
[ Roth 265f ]
*Friedrich TORBERG >>FRIENDS
[ - ]
{DEA}, (RK)
M. TRAU
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / Oxford / 1952}
*Karl TSCHUPPIK >>FRIENDS
[Berg 336f; Roth 102, 124, 125, 134-141, 173, 175, 176, (304)]
Jankel TURNER (lived in Eastern Galicia around 1900)
Great uncle of SM. SM lovingly portrayed him as Jankel Christiampoler in his trilogy
[ Berg 130, 176 ; Roth 177]
Jean VERDIER (1864 – 1940)
Archbishop of Paris
[Roth 274]
Paul VERLAINE (1864 – 1940)
SM knows an anecdote about this poet
[Roth 237]
Berthold VIERTEL (1885 Vienna – 1953 Vienna)
Austrian Jewish dramaturge, director. In American exile (Hollywood, New York), back in Europe in 1949. In 1924, Berg tried to interest Viertel, who was then running a theater in Berlin, in SM's play Im Kunstkreis. In Berlin, SM visited Mampe ("Mampes gute Stube"?) with Viertel.
[ Berg 130, 176 ; Roth 177]
Salka VIERTEL née. STEUERMANN (1889 Sambor, Galicia – 1978 Klosters, CH)
Austrian-American actress, sister of Eduard Steuermann, wife of Berthold Viertel, mother-in-law of Deborah Kerr. Ran a salon in Hollywood, among which were many friends and acquaintances of SM (Hanns Eisler, Schönberg, Brecht, Th. and Heinrich Mann).
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{DEA 1 / DE / Klosters / 1967}
Oswald Garrison VILLARD (1872 Wiesbaden – 1949)
American journalist
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / New York / 1961}
Richard WAGNER (1813-1883)
SM: “Wer von Wagner trinkt, verstinkt“ (Whoever drinks from Wagner becomes stinking)
[KBT 659]
*Ernst WALDINGER >>FRIENDS
[ Berg 101-102 ]
{DEA}
Israel WALDMANN (1881 Czortków - 1940 Jerusalem)
Zionist who also supported the foreign national movement in Tarnopol and later in Vienna. Supported Zionist politics in Austrian parliamentary elections before the First World War. Went to Vienna during the First World War and emigrated to Palestine in 1935.
Waldmann influenced SM's father to let his son study.
[Zeit 191-93]
*Anton WEBERN >>FRIENDS
[Berg 300, 307, 333-347, 358f; Roth (160), (304)]
Frank WEDEKIND (1864-1918)
German writer on whose work Berg's Lulu is based.
[Berg 136]
Shlomo WEISSBROT (1891 (near) Tarnopol – ?)
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / EN / Jerusalem / 1955}
Otto WEININGER (1880 – 1903)
Viennese, widely received Jewish misogynist and Jew-hater. Not only negatively rated by SM.
[Roth 264]
Richard WEITZNER
Writer (?) who was friends with SM and with Kaspar and Edith Blond. At the time of the correspondence with SM, he lived first in Zurich, then in England as a long-term guest of the Blond couple.
[ - ]
{DEA 27 / EN / London / 1956-58}
Franz WERFEL (1890 Prague -1945 New York)
SM probably got to know the poet through Berg
[Berg 164, 273,275, 299, 307,358f]
{DEA 1 / EN / ? / ?} Business card with writing on it
Manfred WINKLER (1922 Putila, Bukowina - 2014 Jerusalem)
Israeli author, writes in German and Hebrew; translator of SM's "Blood Column" into Hebrew; in Israel since 1959. Winkler did not know SM personally.
[ - ]
{DEA 14 / DE / Jerusalem / 1974-75}
Jozef WITTLIN (1896 Galicia – 1976 New York)
Old Austrian Polish writer. Graduated from high school in Vienna in 1915, volunteered for the Austrian army in 1916. Befriended Josef Roth, some of whose works he translated into Polish. With the help of Hermann Kesten, he fled to New York in 1941.
[Roth 123, 291 ]
Oskar WLACH (1881 Wien - 1963 New York)
Austrian Jewish architect who worked closely with Joseph Frank in Vienna. In 1941, Wlach sent a letter to SM in New York, but it is unlikely to have survived.
[ - ]
Dr. Hugo WOLF (1889 – 1946 New York)
Viennese lawyer in Vienna I, Teinfaltstr. 7. Represented Joseph Roth in (financial) arrangements for Roth's sick wife. Together with SM and Bernhard Fuchs, Wolf arranged for Roth's wife to be placed in an institution in Baden. Was also legal representative for Irmgard Keun, Roth's friend, in a dispute with the Allert de Lange publishing house. 1936 founding member (alongside Ernst Krenek and Robert Musil, among others) of the Society of Film Friends of Austria.
[Roth156]
{DEA 1 / DE / New York / 1941}
Chune WOLFSTHAL (1851-1924)
Founded the “Kapelle Wolfsthal” together with his brothers in Tarnopol; was also SM’s cello teacher for a while
[Zeit 184-87, 271, 272, 327]
Fritz WOTRUBA (1907-1975)
Alma Mahler's teacher, is part of her circle of friends, which SM has also joined.
[Roth (304) ]
Friedel WYLER (WEIL) ( ? Switzerland? – 1999 New York)
acquaintance of Rilke?
[ - ]
{DEA 2 / DE / New York / 1967}
Stanislav WYSPIANSKI ( 1869 Krakow – 1907 Krakow)
Polish painter (member of the Vienna Secession) and poet. His drama Sedzowie (The Judges), which premiered in 1907, was seen by SM in Lemberg in 1908, which made a strong impression on him and prompted him to want to become a theater critic. In 1920 he translated the drama into German, but he was not able to get it performed. The translation is lost.
[ Zeit 275, 338 ]
Marcell ZAPPLER (1885-1965 New York)
Journalist in Vienna
Sylvia ZAPPLER (1892-1968 New York)
Russian Jew, doctor in Vienna; Joseph Roth wanted to marry her.
[ Roth 149, 175 ]
Paul ZSOLNAY (1895 Budapest – 1961 Wien)
Austrian publisher, including Werfel; married to Alma Mahler from 1919-1933/35.
[ Berg 273, 278 ]
{DEA 1 / DE / New Foundland / 1941}
Emil Zola (1840 – 1902)
[Roth 212f]
Volkmar von ZÜHLSDORFF (1912 Finow – 2006 Berlin)
American Guild for German Cultural Freedom .
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / New Foundland / 1941}
Friederike ZWEIG (1882 Vienna – 1971 Connecticut)
Wife of Stefan Zweig. After her divorce from Stefan Zweig, she lived in France from 1938 to 1941, where she moved in the Roth circle and often met SM there, including in Roth's last days. In her memoirs "Speigelungen des Lebens" (Reflections of Life) (Hans Deutsch Verlag, Vienna 1964, page 202), she briefly mentions Soma Morgenstern as a table companion of Joseph Roth in a Paris café.
[Roth 33, 209, 248, 255, 262, 263, 264, 270ff, 297, 290, 297]
{DEA 3 / DE / New York / 1941, 1943}
Lotte ZWEIG (1908 Kattowitz (Katowice) – 1942 Petropolis)
Second wife of Stefan Zweig, with whom he committed suicide.
[ - ]
{DEA 1 / DE / New York / 1941}
*Stefan ZWEIG >>FRIENDS
[Berg 371; Roth 33, 61, 85, 106, (123), 131, 142f, 157ff, 167, 175, 176, 178ff, 196, (205),(206), (231), 250, 271, 279, 290, 293, 297, (306, 317, 328, 330); KBT 517]
{DEA}
Vilem (Willy) ZWILLINGER (1896 Austria-Hungary – 1963 New York)
film financier
[ - ]
{DEA 2 / DE / Coimbra / 1940, 1958}
