Helen Chambers

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180 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 4 Jun

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In Our Time · Joseph Roth · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

He had lots of friends who didn't have money, but looked after him, took him to hospital immediately.

They didn't diagnose it properly.

They withdrew alcohol completely and he had terrible delirium.

He had to be strapped to the bed and indeed died the very opposite kind of death from his own literary creation.

Well, it's the human condition in bright, beautiful colours in quite short works.

And I think they're wonderful.

I might say something about his funeral.

Can I say something about that?

So he was buried in the cimetière Thiers, which is in the south of Paris, because nobody had enough money to put him in Père Lachaise, where Heine was, and he really should have belonged.

But at the gravesite, he was never baptised, but he went to the Catholic Church there.

in Paris, the Austrian Catholic Church.

So there was a Catholic priest officiating and there were a lot of Eastern Jewish friends there at the gravesite.

And then there was Egon Ervin Kish, the great communist who turned up with his red communist banner and his red carnations.

And then there was also a Talmudic scholar, Gottfried Stein, who wrote, spent a lot of time with in Paris, and he was prepared to pronounce the Kaddish and some people wanted the Kaddish.

Oh, and I've missed out the Austrian legitimist monarchist because...

Otto von Habsburg had sent a wreath which would have had the yellow and black ribbons on it because he wanted to restore the monarchy.

And he actually had fairly concrete plans to do that before things got really bad.

So there were monarchists, communists, Eastern Jews and Catholics at the graveside.

And they were kind of, I mean, it nearly came to ugly scenes.

And then the chap that was going to say Kaddish was with his friend Soma Morgenstern, also an Eastern Jew,

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