Chronology with links
Introduction
| 8.12.1912 | Juri (birth document) Soyfer was born in Tsarist Kharkow in Russia (today: Kharkiv in Ukraine / a street in Kharkiv was named after Jura Soyfer) Sofer: Knowledgeable of the Torah |
| 1912-1920 | Childhood in Kharkow Languages: Russian and French Eyewitness reports: Pogroms War: Kharkov changed the front several times/ 21 states – including Poland, France, the USA – had invaded revolutionary Russia |
| 1920 | Arrival of the Soyfer family in Vienna numerous commemorative plaques in the city of Vienna, various memorial sites worldwide |
| 1923-1931 | Bundesrealgymnasium III, Hagenmüllergasse Languages: German, English, Latin Commemorative Plaque numerous school projects |
| 1927/28 | Socialist middle school students – there with the „Eighteener“ |
| 1929 | Participation in the political cabaret of the Social Democratic Party |
| 1931 | University of Vienna Studies at Josef Nadler – Soyfer in the Wiener Zeitung: Alma Mater Rudolphina Member of the Academic Legion in the face of violent anti-Semites at the University of Vienna from December 1931 on poems appeared regularly in the Arbeiter-Zeitung under „Jura“ – a newspaper epic was created, which was presented for the first time as such in the theatre Der Kreis of George Tabori – this type of presentation was the basis for the 2012 Edition |
| 1932 | Reports for the Arbeiter-Zeitung from Germany |
| Word Image Satires in the magazine Kuckuck 4.3.1933: Elimination of the Austrian Parliament Reprint: 15 poems in Deutsche Freiheit (German Freedom) (Saarbrücken) |
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| 1934 | February battles and resistance |
| 1934-1937 | Novel So starb eine Partei (The death of a party)- an excerpt is published in English in New Writing by John Lehmann |
| 1935-1939 | Plays: only a part of the dramatic texts have been preserved – these gained world recognition through multilingual performances, radio plays, films |
| 1935 | Start of publications and editorial work in the Wiener Tag |
| 17. November 1937 | Arrest for Communist Activity: Court Records, Letters The Route to Death Memorial plaque for political prisoners 1933-1945 at the Rossau barracks in Vienna |
| 17.2.1938 | Release because of a general amnesty |
| 13.3.1938 | Arrest at the Swiss border Teatro Caprile: On the run Gemeindekotter Gargellen, Prisons Feldkirch, Bludenz, Innsbruck |
| 23.6.1938 | Dachau concentration Camp Dachaulied |
| 23. September 1938 | Buchenwald concentration camp Member of the illegal camp resistance committee |
| Lachen [Laughter] as a form of Resistance | |
| Erinnern und Vergessen, Gedenken | |
| 9./10. November 1938 | Jura Soyfer dies of typhus in Buchenwald concentration camp |
| 2023 | complex, worldwide public: translations, various media, theatre, internet |
Podcast: Jura Soyfer und das Ende der Welt – IIM
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