Aharon Appelfeld

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Aharon Appelfeld ( Hebrew אהרן אפלפלד; Born February 16, 1932 in Jadova , Storojineț district , Kingdom of Romania (today: Schadowa, Ukraine ) as Erwin Appelfeld ; died January 4, 2018 in Petach Tikwa near Tel Aviv , Israel ) was an Israeli writer .

Life

Aharon Appelfeld was born in 1932 near Chernivtsi in Bukovina . He grew up in a middle-class household in Chernivtsi, which he perceived as a cultural and university town. He spoke German with his parents (and spoke it fluently all his life), Yiddish with his grandparents , and Ukrainian with other people in his home country .

When he was eight years old and had completed the first grade of elementary school, his mother was killed by Romanian anti-Semites and he and his father were taken to a forced labor camp (he did not call it a concentration camp in 2011) in conquered Transnistria , where he was kidnapped by his father was separated. He managed to escape, hide in the woods and later work as a casual laborer on Romanian farms. “I was blonde and blue-eyed,” recalled Appelfeld, who managed to hide his Jewish identity and pretend to be Ukrainian. In 1944 Aharon Appelfeld joined the Red Army troops advancing west as a kitchen boy.

After the end of the war, he and other refugees reached Palestine via Italy in 1946 , where he learned Hebrew and obtained his university entrance qualification. He then studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. From 1975 until his retirement in 2001 Appelfeld was Professor of Hebrew Literature at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba .

It was completely surprising that he learned of his father's survival in the 1950s, before he immigrated to Israel from the Soviet Union and was reunited with his son.

At the end of the 1950s he published his first stories in Hebrew, in which he describes the problems of the survivors of the persecution of the Jews. In addition, the lost world of his childhood found its way into his literature again and again. In his work, Appelfeld mainly dealt with the fate of Jewish people in a multicultural society. "Unlike his fellow Israeli writers, the Middle East conflict has remained as good as invisible to him, and the people he created were not Israelis, but Jews."

Appelfeld published 46 novels. Appelfeld became known internationally with the publication of the English translation of his novel Badenheim (1980), and in 1999 he received the National Jewish Book Award for The Iron Path .

He had three children with his wife Judith, who immigrated to Israel from Argentina and most recently lived in the Jerusalem district of Rechavia .

Awards

Appelfeld received numerous awards and honors for his literary and academic work. He was awarded the following prizes, among others:

Works

German issues, in descending order.

  • My parents. Novel. From the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler . rororo, Reinbek near Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-499-27524-1 .
  • A girl out of this world. From the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler. rororo, Reinbek near Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-499-26896-0 .
  • In the clearing. Roman (Original title: ʿAd ḥod ha-tsaʿar. ) From the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler. rororo, Reinbek near Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-499-26891-5 .
  • The man who never stopped sleeping. Novel. From the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler. Rowohlt, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-87134-732-0 .
  • Katerina. Novel. From the Hebrew by Mirjam Pressler. rororo, Reinbek near Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-499-25510-6 .
  • Until the day breaks. Novel. From the Hebrew by Anne Birkenhauer . Rowohlt, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-87134-538-5 .
  • My story is actually unthinkable. In: Martin Doerry (eds.) And Monika Zucht (photos): Nowhere and everywhere at home. Conversations with survivors of the Holocaust. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-421-04207-1 . (also as CD), pp. 16–27.
  • Flowers of darkness. Novel. rororo, Reinbek near Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-499-25320-1 .
  • Parent country. Novel. From the Hebrew by Anne Birkenhauer. rororo, Reinbek near Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-87134-551-7 .
  • The iron path. Novel. From the Hebrew by Stefan Siebers. rororo, Reinbek near Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-499-24146-3 .
  • Story of a life. Autobiography. From the Hebrew by Anne Birkenhauer. Rowohlt, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-87134-508-3 .
  • Tzili. Novel. From the Hebrew by Stefan Siebers. rororo, Reinbek near Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-499-25945-6 .
  • Everything i loved Novel. From the Hebrew by Anne Birkenhauer. rororo, Reinbek near Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-499-27134-2 .
  • Time of miracles. Novel. Translated from the English by Ute Spengler, rororo, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-25948-7 .
  • Badenheim. Novel. Translated from the English by Martin Kluger, rororo, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-499-25947-0 .
  • For all sins. Novel. From the Hebrew by Stefan Siebers. rororo, Reinbek near Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-25946-3 .
  • The ice mine. Novel. From the Hebrew by Anne Birkenhauer. rororo, Reinbek near Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-24421-6 .
  • The immortal beard foot. Novel. From the Hebrew by Stefan Siebers. rororo, Reinbek near Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-499-13171-4 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Aharon Appelfeld  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statement in the show Menschenbilder on radio station Ö1 of the ORF , broadcast on May 15, 2011.
  2. ^ Nicole Henneberg: The rift through Europe. Chernivtsi 1938: The writer Aharon Appelfeld tells about the last year of his childhood in “My Parents”. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 18, 2018, p. 10.
  3. ↑ a b Jessica Steinberg: Aharon Appelfeld, literary giant who gave vivid voice to Holocaust, dies at 85. In: The Times of Israel . January 4, 2017
  4. ^ David B. Green: Questions & Answers: A Conversation With Aharon Appelfeld. In: Haaretz . April 5, 2010, accessed January 4, 2017
  5. ↑ Jakob Hessing : But it was never nostalgic: On the death of the writer Aharon Appelfeld. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 5, 2018, p. 12.
  6. ↑ Thorsten Schmitz : Aharon Appelfeld has died. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 2, 2018, p. 18.
  7. ↑ Marko Martin: Author Aharon Appelfeld: "During the war I saw life in its nakedness". In: Welt.de . 1st January 2018.
  8. ↑ Prizes, Awards, and Honors of Aharon Appelfeld on the website of Ben Gurion University in the Negev, accessed on December 6, 2015.
  9. ↑ Review: A. Breidenstein: Don't be afraid. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 22, 2006.
  10. ↑ Reading sample with the beginning of the Appelfeld conversation (up to p. 21) ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.5 MB). The publisher Random House , accessed on 15 March 2011th
  11. ↑ Review of Flowers of Darkness . On haGalil . Retrieved March 15, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Appelfeld, Aharon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES אהרון אפלפלד (Hebrew); Appelfeld, Erwin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Jadova , Storojineț County , Kingdom of Romania
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 2018
Place of death Petach Tikwa , Israel