Max Fürst

Max Prince ( born June 2, 1905 in Königsberg, † June 21, 1978 in Stuttgart ) was a German writer.

Life

He was born the only son of a German - Jewish family with five children. In 1920 he turned, along with his childhood friend, Hans Litten, the German - Jewish youth group with social revolutionary ideas "Black Heap " to which the liberal comrades, German - Jewish migrant covenant belonged to 1927 and disbanded in 1928. Here he also met his future wife Margot Meisel, with whom he later had two children ( Birute Hanna, born May 27, 1930; Hans Elnis, born February 18, 1933).

With the decision to leave high school and start a carpentry apprenticeship, he returned the bourgeois- Jewish world of his parents' house aware the back, left in 1925 Königsberg, built a Jewish youth group and founded the counseling center "Youth advises youth " in Berlin. In 1933 he came with his wife arrested by the Gestapo, later in the Oranienburg concentration camp. After his release in 1934 he had the first and only encounter with his sister Hilde Meisel, which became known as resistance fighter later under the name Hilda Monte. In his work Talisman Scheherezade he has erected a monument to her.

In 1935 he succeeded together with the family to flee to Palestine. 1945 here began his lifelong friendship with the later writer Ludwig Greve.

1938 all four members of the royal family was the German citizenship (published on 23 May 1938 at the German National Gazette and in the Prussian State Gazette ). 1950 Prince Max was able to return to Germany with the help of the Quakers. Zionism and Jewish nationalism, as he saw, did not conform to his world view. By Minna Specht, whom he had met in the 1920s, Max and Margot prince got a job in the Odenwald School until 1951. Together with HAP Grieshaber the couple was then ruler of the Bernstein monastery in Sulz am Neckar in the Bernsteinschule operates a private art school which served as an academy replacement in the post-war period for artists and art students.

In 1973 he published his autobiography, Gefilte fish, the Heinrich Böll " small miracle " described as a. Three years later, the sequel followed with Talisman Scheherezade. Both books became bestsellers in Germany. Until his death in 1978 Prince Max worked as a carpenter and furniture restorer in Stuttgart.

In May 2006, was moved in front of his former home in Berlin -Mitte, Zolastraße 1a, a stumbling block.

Works

• Gefilte fish. A youth in Königsberg, 1973, re: Publishing House of the Nation, Husum 2002, ISBN 978-3-373-00512-4. as dtv Paperback, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-423-01187-4.

• Gefilte fish and how it went, dtv, Munich 2004 ISBN 3- 423-13190 -X (both previous autobiographies together with the estate )