{"id":2147,"date":"2015-04-10T10:41:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T10:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warpoets.org.uk\/worldwar1\/?page_id=2147"},"modified":"2015-04-10T10:41:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T10:41:34","slug":"albert-ehrenstein","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/warpoets.org.uk\/worldwar1\/poets-and-poetry\/albert-ehrenstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Ehrenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

Albert Ehrenstein, poet and story writer, came from a Jewish-Hungarian family and was born in Vienna. His brother Carl (1892\u20131971) was also a poet. From 1905-1910 Albert Ehrenstein studied history and philosophy in Vienna and received his PhD in 1910 with a thesis on \u201cThe Situation in Hungary in the Year 1790\u201d. The same year his expressionist poem Wanderers Lied <\/em>was published in Karl Kraus\u00b4 journal Der Fackel. <\/em>A story named Tubutsch<\/em> appeared in 1911 with illustrations by Oskar Kokoschka. The cooperation with Kokoschka let to contact with Herwarth Walden, editor of the leading avantgarde periodical Der Sturm<\/em>. Ehrenstein then published in both this journal and in Franz Pfemfert\u00b4s Die Aktion<\/em>. In this way he established himself as a significant proponent of expressionism.<\/p>\n

At the outbreak of war he was deemed unsuitable for military service and was instead required to work in the war archive in Vienna. However his literary work at this time attests to his strong opposition to the war; for example, he published some outspoken poems in the “Wei\u00dfe Bl\u00e4tter” and during 1916-1917 contributed to the Dadaist Neue Jugend <\/em>(New Youth), a journal that was banned in Germany due to its anti-Kaiser standpoint. For a time he worked as an editor at Kurt Wolff Verlag in Leipzig. He emigrated to Switzerland in 1917, but returned to Germany the next year and supported the revolutionary activities there.<\/p>\n

In the 1920s he travelled with Kokoschka and others in Africa, the near East and China. He then began reading and translating poetry from the Chinese and wrote a novel in Chinese style M\u00f6rder aus Gerechtigkeit<\/em> (Murderer Out of Justice, 1931). <\/em>After the accession of the national socialist regime his books were banned and he fled to Switzerland. He lived for a time in Z\u00fcrich and Brissago in the house of the art patron Bernhard Mayer, but was unable to obtain a long-term residence permit, in spite of the intervention of writers such as Hermann Hesse, who was then permanently resident in Switzerland. In 1941 he emigrated to the USA and died in New York in 1950. Later friends were able to retrieve his ashes and have them interred in London, where his brother Carl still lived.<\/p>\n

Selected writings and references<\/h3>\n

A. Ehrenstein, Gedichte<\/em>, Max Rascher Verlag, Z\u00fcrich, 1919<\/p>\n

A. Ehrenstein, Todrot<\/em>. Eine Auswahl an Gedichten <\/em>(Selected poems), <\/em>2009,<\/em> hochroth Verlag, Berlin. ISBN: 978-3-9812619-3-6<\/p>\n

F. Martini:\u00a0Ehrenstein, Albert<\/em> In: Neue Deutsche Biographie<\/em> (NDB). Vol.4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, p.\u00a0355, www.deutsche-biographie.de\/ppn 118688227.html<\/a> , accessed April 2015.<\/p>\n

S. Zweig: Albert Ehrensteins Gedichte<\/em>, in: Rezensionen 1902\u20131939. Begegnungen mit B\u00fcchern<\/em>. 1983<\/p>\n

K.-M. Gau\u00df: Wann endet die Nacht. \u00dcber Albert Ehrenstein – ein Essay<\/em>. Edition Moderne, Z\u00fcrich 1986, ISBN 3-907010-24-8.<\/p>\n

A. Wallas: Albert Ehrenstein. Mythenzerst\u00f6rer und Mythensch\u00f6pfer<\/em>, Boerverlag, Grafrath 1994. (This is the most complete and thorough study of Ehrenstein\u00b4s literary work to date.)<\/p>\n

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