Stefan Heym (1913–2001)
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Stefan Heym is representative of many intellectuals in the former East Germany who found themselves torn between loyalty to the ideals of their state and disdain for the reality. He was born into a secular Jewish family in Chemnitz. As a young man, he went to the United States to escape Hitler, mehr anzeigen where he worked for a while as a journalist. In 1943 he joined the American army. His first novel, The Crusaders (1948), became a best-seller. It was loosely based on his wartime experiences and filled with contempt not only for the Nazi government, but for virtually all of German culture. Distressed by the rise of McCarthyism in the United States and by Western tolerance of former Nazi officials, Heym emigrated to East Germany in 1953 and gave his enthusiastic support to the Socialist aspirations of his new homeland. His disillusionment with East Germany was far more gradual and, by his own account, more difficult than that experienced in the United States. In 1976 Heym protested the forced emigration of singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann from the German Democratic Republic. Two years later he was fined and expelled from the East German Writers' Union for accepting royalties for work published abroad. Though Heym continued to believe that the GDR was the "better-half" of Germany, disillusion with the reality of socialism moved him to turn to his Jewish heritage for inspiration in novels such as The King David Report (1972) and The Wandering Jew (1984). In 1992 he became a founding member of the "Committee for Justice," a lobby representing the interests of former East Germans in a newly united Germany. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Die Schmähschrift oder Königin gegen Defoe : erzählt nach den Aufzeichnungen eines gewissen Josiah Creech (1970) 29 Exemplare
Der kleine König, der ein Kind kriegen musste. Und andere Märchen für kluge Kinder. (1984) 7 Exemplare
דוח המלך דוד 2 Exemplare
Keeresztes vitézek 1 Exemplar
Ristirüütlid 1 Exemplar
Cruciatii (2 vol.) - editie prescurtata 1 Exemplar
Reden über das eigene Land: Deutschland I. Gehalten auf dem 'Münchener Podium in den Kammerspielen 83' (1983) 1 Exemplar
Korsfarerere 1 Exemplar
Oči razuma 1 Exemplar
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The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain (2009) — Mitwirkender — 54 Exemplare
The New Sufferings of Young W. and Other Stories from the German Democratic Republic (1997) — Mitwirkender — 10 Exemplare
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- Heym, Stefan
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Flieg, Helmut
- Geburtstag
- 1913-04-10
- Todestag
- 2001-12-16
- Begräbnisort
- Weißensee Cemetery, Berlin, Deutschland
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- Deutschland
USA - Geburtsort
- Chemnitz, Deutschland
- Sterbeort
- Israel
- Wohnorte
- Chemnitz, Deutschland
Berlin, Deutschland
Chicago, Illinois, USA
New York, USA
Essen, Deutschland
München, Deutschland (Zeige alle 8)
Prag, Tschechoslowakei
Ost-Berlin, DDR - Ausbildung
- Heinrich-Schliemann-Gymnasium Berlin (Abitur)
Universität von Chigaco (Magister) - Berufe
- Journalist
- Organisationen
- United States Army
Berliner Zeitung
Party of Democratic Socialism - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Ehrendoktor der Universität Bern (1990)
Ehrendoktor der Universität Cambridge (1990)
Ehrenbürger der Stadt Chemnitz (2001)
Heinrich-Mann-Preis (1953)
Bambi (1975)
Bambi (1982) (Zeige alle 9)
Bambi (1990)
Jerusalem-Preis (1993)
Friedensmedaille der IPPNW (2000) - Kurzbiographie
- Stefan Heym was the pen name of Helmut Flieg, born to a Jewish merchant family in Chemnitz, Germany. He completed secondary school in Berlin, but fled Germany after the Reichstag fire in February 1933, shortly after the Nazi regime came to power. He emigrated to the USA and served in the special German-speaking unit of U.S. Military Intelligence in World War II known as the Ritchie Boys. He earned a degree at the University of Chicago and became a journalist for German-language newspapers, on staff and as a freelancer. In 1952, he moved back to the part of his native country which was then the German Democratic Republic (GDR) or East Germany. He published works in English and German at home and abroad, and despite longstanding criticism of the GDR, remained a committed socialist.
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