Ernst Fischer (writer)

Ernst Fischer
Fischer in 1952
Fischer in 1952
Born(1899-07-03)3 July 1899
Komotau, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
(now Chomutov, Czech Republic)
Died31 July 1972(1972-07-31) (aged 73)
Deutschfeistritz, Styria, Austria
Pen nameErnst Peter Fischer
Peter Wieden
Pierre Vidal
Der Miesmacher
OccupationJournalist, writer, politician
LanguageGerman
EducationUniversity of Graz
Notable worksThe Necessity of Art (1959)
Spouse
(m. 1932; div. 1954)
Louise Eisler
(m. 1955)
ChildrenMarina Fischer-Kowalski
RelativesWalter Fischer (brother)

Ernst Fischer (3 July 1899 – 31 July 1972), also known under the pseudonyms Ernst Peter Fischer, Peter Wieden, Pierre Vidal, and Der Miesmacher, was a Bohemian-born Austrian journalist, writer and politician.

Biography

Ernst Fischer was born in Komotau, Bohemia, in 1899 as the son of the Imperial and Royal colonel and teacher of mathematics and descriptive geometry at military schools Josef Fischer and his wife Agnes. He served on the Italian Front in the First World War, studied philosophy in Graz and did unskilled labour in a factory before working as a provincial journalist and then on the Arbeiter-Zeitung from 1927. In 1932, he married Ruth von Mayenburg. Initially a social democrat, Fischer became a member of the Communist Party of Austria (Kommunistische Partei Österreichs or KPÖ) member in 1934 after being disillusioned in liberal democracy for not being able to withstand fascism.

In 1934, after Fischer and his wife were involved in the Austrian Civil War, they had to leave Austria.[1] They went to Czechoslovakia, where he began working for the Comintern as an editor.[2] In 1938, they went to Moscow, where Fischer continued to work for the Comintern. They lived at Hotel Lux,[3] a luxury hotel that had been built in 1911,[4] and was taken over by the Communist Party after the October Revolution. Following Adolf Hitler's seizure of power, the hotel became a refuge for communist exiles, especially Germans.[5] The Fischers lived there from 1938 until 1945.[4]

When Fischer and his wife arrived at Hotel Lux, the Stalinist purges were still taking place and the exiles living at the hotel were living in a climate of fear and terror. The autumn after their arrival, Fischer came home from work one evening, looking terrified. Gustl Deutsch, an Austrian who had been arrested and had imprisoned, had managed to smuggle him a note to alert him to the danger facing Fischer. Under torture, Deutsch had named Fischer as being involved in a plot against Stalin's life. Although the charges were completely false, by being accused, Fischer was in grave danger and he immediately sought help from Georgi Dimitrov, one of the leaders of the Comintern. Dimitrov replied, "I will be able to save you, but the others...?"[6]

After the war, Fischer remained an important figure in the KPÖ until 1969. He served as Communist minister of information in the first post-war government of Renner (27 April 1945 – 20 December 1945). He published articles in Weg und Ziel, monthly journal of the KPÖ.[7]

Fischer and his wife were divorced in 1954.[1]

His book, Erinnerungen und Reflexionen ("Memories and Reflections"), was released around the same time his ex-wife's book came out, Blaues Blut und rote Fahnen. Revolutionäres Frauenleben zwischen Wien, Berlin und Moskau ("Blue Blood and Red Flags. Revolutionary Female Life Between Vienna, Berlin and Moscow"). The two books covered the same period.[1]

Fischer is particularly famous in the West for his book The Necessity of Art (1959). In this Fischer took many of the commonplace concepts of Marxist artistic theory up to that point - art as labor, collective vs individual, formalism and socialist realism - and develops them in a wide-ranging essay on the history of art from magic and religion to the Romantics, critical realism and art in the service of building socialism (critically) not just state propaganda.

The book has influenced many writers since the late 1950s, in particular Kenneth Tynan and John Berger. John Berger wrote a new introduction to the recent Verso Books edition.

Fischer was expelled from the Communist Party in 1968 for being against the suppression of the Prague Spring. Being a former associate of moderate wing of the KPÖ, Fischer gradually moved to the "undogmatic Marxists" in Austria and even renounced the concept of a dictatorship of the proletariat.[8] He continued to publish the monthly journal Wiener Tagebuch with Franz Marek and played a role in the public sphere primarily as an undogmatic Marxist theorist.

Fischer died on 31 July 1972 in Deutschfeistritz.

Literary works

  • Krise der Jugend. 1931
  • Freiheit und Diktatur. 1934
  • Die Entstehung des österreichischen Volkscharakters. 1944
  • Franz Grillparzer. 1948
  • Roman in Dialogen. 1955 (with Louise Eisler)
  • Von der Notwendigkeit der Kunst. 1959 (English translation: The Necessity of Art. 1963)
  • Kunst und Koexistenz: Beitrag zu einer modernen marxistischen Ästhetik. 1967
  • Was Marx wirklich sagte. 1968 (translated as How to Read Marx)
  • Erinnerungen und Reflexionen. 1969
  • Das Ende einer Illusion. 1973
  • Von Grillparzer zu Kafka. 1975
  • Born in Austria

References

  1. ^ a b c "Köstliche Entdeckung" Der Spiegel (3 November 1969). Retrieved 14 November 2011 (in German).
  2. ^ "Nachts kamen Stalins Häscher" Der Spiegel (16 October 1978), p. 98. Note: The html file is from a low-quality OCR scan and is full of typos. There URL has a link to a PDF version, but it is low-quality too. Retrieved November 15, 2011 (in German).
  3. ^ "Nachts kamen Stalins Häscher", p. 94.
  4. ^ a b Peter Dittmar, "Der steinerne Zeuge des stalinistischen Terrors" Die Welt (30 October 2007). Retrieved 11 November 2011 (in German).
  5. ^ Hermann Weber, Hotel Lux - Die deutsche kommunistische Emigration in Moskau (PDF) Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung No. 443 (October 2006), p. 58. Retrieved 12 November 2011 (in German).
  6. ^ "Nachts kamen Stalins Häscher", p. 102.
  7. ^ Fritz Fellner (June 1988). "The Problem of the Austrian Nation after 1945". The Journal of Modern History. 60 (2): 267, 275. doi:10.1086/600336. S2CID 144927157.
  8. ^ "ERNST FISCHER, MARXIST WRITER". The New York Times. 2 August 1972. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 5 September 2023.

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