Camill Hoffmann

Camille Hoffmann (also: Kamil Hoffmann, born October 31, 1878 in Kolin, Bohemia, † October 1944 in Auschwitz ) was a Bohemian- Czechoslovakian journalist and writer.

Life

Camille Hoffmann translated from the French (including Balzac and Baudelaire ) and Czech ( editor of several works of Masaryk and Eduard Benes ), was from 1902 to 1919 features editor of the Viennese magazine Time and Dresdner Latest news, then two years in the press department of the Prague Council of Ministers Presidium since 1920 (until 1938 ) Legationsrat and press officer of the Embassy of the Czechoslovak Republic in Berlin. Hoffmann was deported from the occupied by the Germans in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to Auschwitz and gassed there.

Work

He wrote tender and perfectly shaped Poetry:

• Adagio quiet evenings, 1902
• The vase, 1911
• German poetry from Austria, 1911
• Letters of Love, 1913
• Bells my home, 1936.
• Political Diary 1932-1939. Hrsgg. and annotated by Dieter Sudhoff, Alecto -Verlag. Klagenfurt 1995 ( Edition 4 Mnemosyne ) ISBN 3-900743-90-8