Adam Hochschild

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Adam Hochschild (born 1942 in New York City ) is an American journalist and writer .

Life

Hochschild attended high school in Pomfret, Windham County, Connecticut . Important political experiences, which were also reflected in his later journalistic and literary work, were in the early 1960s during his student days working for several months in an anti- apartheid newspaper in South Africa , experiences as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1964 and Hochschild's involvement in the movement against the Vietnam War .

After working as a daily newspaper journalist for many years, he worked for Ramparts , a left-wing political-literary magazine that existed from 1962 to 1975 and was the forerunner of Mother Jones , of which Hochschild was one of the founders and editorial team in the mid to late 1970s.

Other journals and magazines that Hochschild wrote or writes for include The New Yorker , Harper's Magazine , The New York Review of Books , The New York Times Magazine, and The Nation . He was also a commentator on the National Public Radio news program All Things Considered .

Hochschild's first book Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son is autobiographical and was published in 1986; it describes the difficult relationship between his father and himself. The majority of his subsequent books deal with domination and oppression (and forms of resistance to it) in the context of colonialism . The best known and most awarded was his work King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998; German 2000 as a shadow over the Congo. The story of one of the great, almost forgotten crimes of mankind) , which deals with the Belgian King Leopold II and the Congo atrocities , the largely suppressed murder of several million Congolese between 1885 and 1908.

In October 2016, Hochschild published together with Todd Gitlin , Peter Beinart , Michael Walzer , Edward Witten , and others. a. an open letter in the New York Review of Books calling for a targeted boycott of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories .

Hochschild taught writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley . He lives in San Francisco , is married to the sociologist and author Arlie Russell Hochschild and has two sons with her.

Awards (selection)

Works

  • Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son (1986)
  • The Mirror at Midnight: a South African Journey (1990; reissued 2007)
  • The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin (1994; reissued 2003)
    • German: Stalin's shadow. Conversations with Russians today , Steidl, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-88243-326-4
  • Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels (1997)
  • King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998; new edition 2006), ISBN 0-330-49233-0
    • German: shadow over the Congo. The story of one of the great, almost forgotten crimes of humanity , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-608-91973-2
  • Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (2005; on the anti-slavery movement in the British Empire )
    • German: Break the chains. The decisive struggle for the abolition of slavery , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3-608-94123-1
  • To end all wars. A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918 , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston 2011, ISBN 978-0-618-75828-9
    • German: The great war. The fall of old Europe in the First World War. 1914-1918 . From the American by Hainer Kober, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-608-94695-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Adam Hochschild: The Imaginary Cemetery February 6, 2013. In: theappendix.net. Retrieved January 5, 2014 .
  2. ^ For an Economic Boycott and Political Nonrecognition of the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories , New York Review of Books , October 13, 2016; Over 70 American Intellectuals Call for 'Targeted Boycott' of Israeli Settlements , Haaretz , September 25, 2016.
  3. ^ King Leopold's Ghost - About the Author
  4. ↑ http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/27978.html
personal data
SURNAME Hochschild, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City