Fred Uhlman
Fred Uhlman ( born January 19, 1901 in Stuttgart, † April 11, 1985 in London, Manfred Uhlmann ) was a German lawyer, painter and writer.
Life
Uhlman visited the renowned Eberhard -Ludwigs -Gymnasium in Stuttgart and studied law in Freiburg, Munich and Tübingen, where he received his doctorate in 1925 with a thesis on the partial sanity. In Freiburg he became a member of the batting fraternity Ghibellinia in KC.
As from 1927 established lawyer, he was an active member of the SPD and had other contacts such as Kurt Schumacher. When he had to go into exile in France because of his Jewish origins and his political activities in 1933, he could not exercise his profession longer and tried as an art dealer and trade of aquarium fish. In 1935, he met his future wife Diana Croft, daughter of Sir Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft, in Spain know and because of them went to England in 1936. Even in France, he had begun to paint as an autodidact. He sat in England continued successfully and moved in artistic circles ( among others, the Free German League of Culture in Great Britain), where he met Oskar Kokoschka and Berthold Viertel.
During the war he was interned for six months in Douglas (Isle of Man). During the internment, he met Kurt Schwitters, who had managed to flee from Norway to England, Schwitters painted his portrait. In later years Uhlman was primarily for his autobiography, The Making of an Englishman and translated into 19 languages novella Reunion (Eng. 1978, under the title reconciled in 1979, a new edition The new-found friend 1988 film F / D / UK 1989) as known writer.
Works
- The Making of an Englishman. 1960 ( Eng.: Memories of a Jewish Stuttgart Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart, 1992, ISBN 3-608-91370- X edition: .. . The Making of an Englishman, memories of a German Jew Diogenes Verlag Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-257 -23018-4 ) - Amazon.
- Reunion. 1971 ( Eng.: Hermansen, Cologne, 1978, ISBN 3-921549-22-1, in new translation: The new-found friend, Diogenes Verlag Zurich, 1988, ISBN 3-257-05705-9 ).
- With a new name - A story in two parts. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1985 ( Reunion and No Coward Soul Is Mine ), ISBN 3-421-06241-2.