Stefan Heym (1913–2001)
Autor(a) de The Wandering Jew
About the Author
Stefan Heym is representative of many intellectuals in the former East Germany who found themselves torn between loyalty to the ideals of their state and disdain for the reality. He was born into a secular Jewish family in Chemnitz. As a young man, he went to the United States to escape Hitler, mostrar mais where he worked for a while as a journalist. In 1943 he joined the American army. His first novel, The Crusaders (1948), became a best-seller. It was loosely based on his wartime experiences and filled with contempt not only for the Nazi government, but for virtually all of German culture. Distressed by the rise of McCarthyism in the United States and by Western tolerance of former Nazi officials, Heym emigrated to East Germany in 1953 and gave his enthusiastic support to the Socialist aspirations of his new homeland. His disillusionment with East Germany was far more gradual and, by his own account, more difficult than that experienced in the United States. In 1976 Heym protested the forced emigration of singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann from the German Democratic Republic. Two years later he was fined and expelled from the East German Writers' Union for accepting royalties for work published abroad. Though Heym continued to believe that the GDR was the "better-half" of Germany, disillusion with the reality of socialism moved him to turn to his Jewish heritage for inspiration in novels such as The King David Report (1972) and The Wandering Jew (1984). In 1992 he became a founding member of the "Committee for Justice," a lobby representing the interests of former East Germans in a newly united Germany. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Stefan Heym
דוח המלך דוד 2 cópias
Flammender Frieden: Roman (Stefan-Heym-Werkausgabe, Romane 2) (German Edition) (2021) 1 exemplar(es)
Keeresztes vitézek 1 exemplar(es)
Ristirüütlid 1 exemplar(es)
Cruciatii (2 vol.) - editie prescurtata 1 exemplar(es)
Korsfarerere 1 exemplar(es)
Reden über das eigene Land: Deutschland I. Gehalten auf dem 'Münchener Podium in den Kammerspielen 83' (1983) 1 exemplar(es)
Oči razuma 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain (2009) — Contribuinte — 54 cópias
The New Sufferings of Young W. and Other Stories from the German Democratic Republic (1997) — Contribuinte — 10 cópias
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Heym, Stefan
- Nome de batismo
- Flieg, Helmut
- Data de nascimento
- 1913-04-10
- Data de falecimento
- 2001-12-16
- Local de enterro
- Weißensee Cemetery, Berlin, Germany
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Duitsland
VS - Local de nascimento
- Chemnitz, Duitsland
- Local de falecimento
- Israël
- Locais de residência
- Chemnitz, Germany
Berlin, Germany
New York, New York, USA
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Berlin, Germany - Educação
- University of Chicago
- Ocupação
- journalist
politicus - Organizações
- United States Army
Berliner Zeitung
Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (PDS ∙ 'Partij van het Democratische Socialisme')
Bundestag/Duitse Bondsdag - Premiações
- Jerusalem Prize (1993)
- Pequena biografia
- Stefan Heym was the pen name of Helmut Flieg, born to a Jewish merchant family in Chemnitz, Germany. He completed secondary school in Berlin, but fled Germany after the Reichstag fire in February 1933, shortly after the Nazi regime came to power. He emigrated to the USA and served in the special German-speaking unit of U.S. Military Intelligence in World War II known as the Ritchie Boys. He earned a degree at the University of Chicago and became a journalist for German-language newspapers, on staff and as a freelancer. In 1952, he moved back to the part of his native country which was then the German Democratic Republic (GDR) or East Germany. He published works in English and German at home and abroad, and despite longstanding criticism of the GDR, remained a committed socialist.
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Geen roem voor helden de Stefan Heym
Na de landing in Normandië trekt het Amerikaanse leger op naar Parijs en vandaar in de richting van Duitsland. De idealen van veel personages in het boek maken langzamerhand plaats voor desillusie: na de oorlog zal iedereen weer net zo goed zijn eigen voordeel najagen. Een enkele keer lukt het een plaats iets beter achter te laten dan die tijdens de oorlog was, maar het Amerikaanse leger is niet voorbereid op het verzorgen en/of huisvesten van alle displaced persons en zo, dus als het een keer lukt, is dat een uitzondering.… (mais)
A kind of irreverent religious fiction about the Wandering Jew, Ahasverus, who has been condemned to wander the earth until the return of Jesus Christ. The main characters are Paul von Eitzen, a hapless clergyman and follower of Martin Luther, Leuchentrager (aka 'Lightbringer' or Lucifer -- you see where this is going) a hunchback who 'helps' von Eitzen on his way; and Ahasverus himself, who debates with 'Reb Joshua' that is, Jesus about his passivity. All in all it's quite a fun and educational romp through Reformation religious history… (mais)
Stefan Heym, tedesco, americano, tedesco democratico convinto, tedesco democratico disilluso e poi di nuovo semplicemente tedesco.
Anche con questo breve resoconto biografico si spiega l'ironia (nemmeno troppo amara tutto sommato) di questi agili racconti ambientati nella DDR subito dopo la caduta del muro e l'apertura delle frontiere col tanto mitizzato OVEST.
Da conoscere meglio!
Anche con questo breve resoconto biografico si spiega l'ironia (nemmeno troppo amara tutto sommato) di questi agili racconti ambientati nella DDR subito dopo la caduta del muro e l'apertura delle frontiere col tanto mitizzato OVEST.
Da conoscere meglio!
Berlijn, juni 1953. De spanningen in de fabriek Merkur lopen op. De werknemers zijn ontevreden met het voornemen van de regering de normen voor de productie te verhogen. Ze hebben de Weimarrepubliek en Hitler overleefd; de nieuwe machthebbers uit de Sovjet-Unie zeggen de arbeiders te vertegenwoordigen. Moeten ze dan nu gaan staken tegen hun eigen leiders?
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- Membros
- 1,070
- Popularidade
- #24,041
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 12
- ISBNs
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