Format:
xv, 403 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780190222383
Content:
The biography of H.G. Adler (1910-88) is the story of a survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and two other concentration camps who not only lived through the greatest cataclysm of the 20th century, but someone who also devoted his literary and scholarly career to telling the story of those who perished in over two dozen books of fiction, poetry, history, sociology, and religion. And yet for much of his life he remained almost entirely unknown. A writer's writer, a scholar of seminal, pioneering works on the Holocaust, a renowned radio essayist in postwar Germany, a last representative of the Prague Circle of literature headed by Kafka, a key contributor to the prosecution in the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Adler was a man of his time whose times lived through him. His is the story of many others, but also one that is singularly his own. And at its heart lies a profound story of love and perseverance amid the loss of his first wife, Gertrud Klepetar, who accompanied her mother to the gas chamber in Auschwitz, and the courtship and extended correspondence with Bettina Gross, a Prague artist who escaped to the Britain, only to later learn that her mother had also been in Theresienstadt with Adler before her eventual death in Auschwitz.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 385-391
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190222390
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190222406
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-19-022239-0
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-19-022240-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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German Studies
Keywords:
Adler, H. G. 1910-1988
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Adler, H. G. 1910-1988
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Biografie
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Biografie
Author information:
Filkins, Peter 1958-
