Franz Blei
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Franz Blei | |
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| Born | January 18, 1871 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | July 10, 1942 (aged 71) |
| Education | Westbury |
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Franz Blei (pseudonyms: Medardus, Dr. Peregrinus Steinhövel, Amadée de la Houlette, Franciscus Amadeus, Gussie Mc-Bill, Prokop Templin, Heliogabal, Nikodemus Schuster, L. O. G., Hans Adolar; January 18, 1871 – July 10, 1942) was an essayist, playwright and translator. He was also noted as a bibliophile, a critic, an editor in chief and publisher. He was a friend and collaborator of Franz Kafka.[1]
Life
He was the son of a shoemaker and trained as an architect. As a member of the literati, he was at great risk in Nazi-occupied Europe and eventually succeeded after a lengthy odyssey in reaching the USA in 1941 where he settled in New York City.
Work
He translated into German work by Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde and Molière among others and also published his own monograph on the paintings of the symbolist Félicien Rops. He was also a prolific editor of small-press journals. Kafka said of him: "Franz Blei is much cleverer, and greater, than what he writes." (Janouch, 1971. "Conversations With Kafka").
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Hyperion
From 1908 to 1909, he co-edited the short-lived journal Hyperion with Carl Sternheim, which was the first to publish work by a young Franz Kafka. The first issue published a short fragment of Kafka's story "Description of a Struggle". More substantial extracts of the work were published in the final issue of Hyperion in the spring of 1909. Extracts from another seven Kafka works were also published in the magazine.
Bibliography
- Paul Raabe, "Franz Kafka und Franz Blei", in: F. Kafka. Ein Symposium. Datierung, Funde, Materialien, Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 1965, pp. 7–20.
- Ulrich E Bach, "Franz Bleis einsames Exil." In: Deutschsprachige Exilliteratur seit 1933 3/I USA Supplement. Ed. John M. Spalek, Konrad Feilchenfeldt and Sandra H. Hawrylchak. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010: 3-13. [1]
Notes
- ↑ Stach, Reiner (2005). Kafka: The Decisive Years. New York: Harcourt. pp. 16–19. ISBN 978-0151-00752-3.
External links
- Works by Franz Blei at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Franz Blei at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) File:Speaker Icon.svg
- Works by or about Franz Blei at the Internet Archive
- 19th-century Austrian dramatists and playwrights
- Austrian essayists
- Austrian translators
- Translators to German
- Austrian theatre critics
- Austrian editors
- Austrian publishers (people)
- Bibliophiles
- Writers from Vienna
- 1871 births
- 1942 deaths
- Male essayists
- 19th-century translators
- 19th-century Austrian male writers
- 20th-century translators
- 20th-century Austrian male writers
- 20th-century publishers (people)
- 19th-century essayists
- 20th-century essayists
- 20th-century Austrian dramatists and playwrights
- Austrian male dramatists and playwrights