Fred Wander

Fred Wander (born 5 January 1917 in Vienna, † July 10, 2006 ibid ), born as Fritz Rosenblatt, was an Austrian writer.

Life

Fred Wander grew up in poverty as the son of Galician immigrants on. Hiking attended in Vienna the elementary and secondary school, was three years apprentice in the textile trade, and then worked in various professions. In 1938, after the invasion of the Nazis in Vienna, it about Switzerland managed to escape to France, where he was interned after the war began as an "enemy alien ". He fled to Marseilles and was finally delivered in 1942 after trying to escape to Switzerland from there to the Vichy police. Walking was deported via Drancy transit camp to Auschwitz and liberated in April 1945 from the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar. His parents were murdered in Auschwitz. He returned to Austria and worked as a journalist and photojournalist. In 1950 he joined the Communist Party of Austria, the Communist Party, at. In 1955 Fred Wander on the first course of the Literature Institute " Johannes R. Becher " in Leipzig in part. 1956 married his wife walking Maxie, born Elfriede Brunner. With it, a later - since the seventies - known writer, he moved in 1958 in the GDR. Here he worked as a freelance writer. Died in 1977 Maxie Wander. Fred Wander married in 1982 his third wife Susan, left together with her 1983, the GDR final and settled down again in Vienna. He died on 10 July 2006 after a serious illness in his apartment in Vienna and was buried in Kleinmachnow.

In his work, he sat down especially with his experience in the German concentration camps during the Nazi dictatorship apart. When his key work applies the novel ' The Seventh Well '. After his self-image he saw himself in the tradition of Hasidic storyteller. In addition to novels and short stories published Fred Wander plays, travel literature and youth books.

Awards

Works

  • Twenty-four hours in the life of a reporter, 1954
  • Typhoon over the islands in 1957
  • Corsica - not discovered in 1959
  • Bandidos, 1963
  • Paris Double Face, 1966
  • Nicole, 1971
  • The Seventh Well, 1971; new edition 2005
  • Holland, at first glance, 1972
  • A room in Paris, 1975
  • Provencal Travel, 1978
  • Hotel Baalbek, in 1991, re-release 2007 with afterword by Erich Hackl
  • Joshua sends his regards. The bungalow. Two Pieces, 1979
  • The dove- gray house, 1977
  • Patrique, Patrique, 1983
  • The Good Life, 1996, expanded new edition in 2006 under the title The Good Life or From happiness in terror. Memories, ISBN 3-89244-855-8

Publishing activities

  • Maxie Wander: Life Please consider a great alternative. Diaries and letters, 1979
  • Maxie Wander: One life is not enough. Diary entries and letters. Edited and with an introduction by Fred Wander, 1990. ISBN 3-518-45963-5
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