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H.G. Adler : a life in many worlds / Peter Filkins

Filkins, Peter, 1958- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019] [© 2019]

xv, 403 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 385-391

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet ; BfZ (Rechtsgrundlage SLG). WLB Stuttgart

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Erscheint auch als: (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-19-022238-3 (Festeinband : alk. paper)

978-0-19-022239-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff); 978-0-19-022240-6 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2018018276

9780190222383

OCoLC: 1102423308     

GN 2572  | NQ 2350      Ähnliche Literatur

PT2601.D614

* Adler, H. G. [1910-1988] ; Biografie      Zum Register

* Adler, H. G. [1910-1988] ; Biografie ; Biografie      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Adler, H. G ; Authors, German -- 20th century -- Biography

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.