Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld (Hebrew אהרון אפלפלד; born February 16, 1932 in Sadhora ( = Zhadowa ) near Czernowitz, then Romania) is an Israeli writer.

Life

Aharon Appelfeld was born in 1932 as Erwin Appelfeld. He grew up in a middle-class household in Czernowitz on, which was perceived by him as a cultural and university town .. and his parents spoke German ( and speaks it fluently as before ), with his grandparents Yiddish, with other people often Ukrainian.

When he was eight years old and had the first grade of elementary school behind him, his mother was killed by Romanian anti-Semites and he shared with his father in a forced labor camp ( he is not designated in 2011 as a concentration camp ) in Transnistria, then the most eastern part of Romania, abducted, where he was separated from his father. He managed to escape, hiding in the woods to hold and later work as a casual laborer on the Romanian farms. I was blond and blue-eyed, remembering Appelfeld, who managed to hide his Jewish identity and impersonate Ukrainians. In 1944, he joined the westward advancing troops of the Red Army as a kitchen boy.

After the war, he reached in 1946 with other refugees to Italy Palestine, where he had to learn Hebrew and earn his baccalaureate degree. Then he studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. From 1975 until his retirement in 2001 Appelfeld was a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben- Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba.

At the end of the 1950s he published his first stories in the Hebrew language, in which he describes the problems of survivors. In addition, the lost world of his childhood always finds its way into literature. In his work we Appelfeld mainly deals with the fates of Jewish people in an era marked by multiculturalism society.

International Appelfeld with the appearance of the English translation of his novel Swimming Home (1980 ) became known for the Iron path he was awarded the National Jewish Book Award in 1999.

Awards

Works

  • Everything that I loved. Novel. Festival, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8286-0128-6.
  • Baden home. Novel. dtv, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-423-12929-8.
  • Flowers of darkness. Novel. Rowohlt, Berlin, 2008. ISBN 978-3-87134-585-2.
  • The iron path. Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2006, ISBN 978-3-499-24146-8.
  • The Eismine. Novel. Festival, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-8286-0068-9.
  • Parents country. Novel, Rowohlt, Reinbek 2007, ISBN 3-87134-551-2.
  • For all sins. Novel. dtv, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-423-12845-3.
  • Story of a life. ( Autobiographie. ) Rowohlt, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-87134-508-3.
  • Tzili. Novel. dtv, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-423-13307-4.
  • The immortal Bartfuß. Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1995, ISBN 3-499-13171-4. ( First: Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-455-00172-6. )
  • Time of miracles. Novel. dtv, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-12996-4.
  • Until the day dawns. Novel. Translation by Anne Birch Hauer. Rowohlt, Berlin 2006 ISBN 3-87134-538-5
  • My story is actually unthinkable. In: Martin Doerry (ed.) and Monika breeding (Photos): nowhere and everywhere at home. Conversations with survivors of the Holocaust. DVA, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-421-04207-1. ( also on CD ), pp. 16-27.
  • Katerina. Novel. Translated from the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler. Rowohlt, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-87134-680-4.
  • The man who did not stop to sleep. Novel. Translated from the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler. Rowohlt, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-87134-732-0.
  • In the clearing. Novel. ( Ortiginaltitel: ʿ ad Hod ha - tsa ʿ ar, translated by Mirjam Pressler ). Rowohlt, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-87134-771-9.
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