Albert Hochheimer

Albert Hochheimer (pseudonym: Bert Jorat, born May 5, 1900 in Steinheim / Westphalia ; † September 28, 1976 in Crocifisso / Ticino) was a German author of books for children and young people, historical and adventure novels, radio plays and newspaper articles.

Life

Albert Hochheimer, son of a Jewish merchant family in Steinheim (Westphalia) (attended school: Steinheim Rector's School, Bad Meinberg Private School, Höxter High School ), was called up as a one-year volunteer for military service. After the end of the First World War , he worked for a long time at the Leonhard Tietz department store group in Cologne. It was probably during this time that he made up his Abitur and studied economics at Cologne University from 1922 to 1924 . He initially earned his living as a student trainee and later worked as a carpet and curtain buyer for a department store group before he became the owner of a leather goods factory in Offenbach, Hesse.

In 1938 Hochheimer emigrated with his non-Jewish wife and their daughter Erika, initially to the Netherlands and in 1939 to Paris , where he again ran a leather goods factory. After the attack by German troops on France, he volunteered for the French Foreign Legion in North Africa to avoid deportation to an internment camp .

In 1942 he managed to escape from the Legion to Switzerland , where he met his wife and daughter who had been briefly interned in a camp near Lyon . The couple later separated, however, and Albert Hochheimer again married a non-Jew (daughter Doris). After the end of the Second World War, Albert Hochheimer lived alternately in Paris and Lyon and from 1950 as a freelance writer in Ticino, Switzerland.

He was a member of the PEN in London and the Association for the Protection of German Writers and in the following decades wrote countless newspaper articles and around a dozen radio plays for Radio Beromünster. But he was best known for his 47 books, mostly adventure, children's and youth books (including for the then well-known series of Lux reading sheets ) and his historical novels. His works have been translated into many European languages.

Albert Hochheimer died in Crocifisso on September 28, 1976 at the age of 76.

Independent publications

• Little Mr. Terri. Fairy tale. Stuttgart: Gnamm 1948, 1949, 1954; with the subtitle Wondrous Stories for Children Big and Small. Zurich, Stuttgart: Classen 1972
• The outlier. Youth book. Stuttgart 1952
• Man and his inner world. Teufen: Niggli 1953
• The white camel. Stories. Stuttgart 1953
• Little Mr. Terri and many other fairy tales and children's poems. Zurich: Swiss printing and publishing house [1954]
• The story of the great rivers. Einsiedeln: Benziger 1954
• Adventure in the Sahara. Einsiedeln: Benziger 1955
• SOS in the Atlantic. Munich: Andermann 1955; Donauwörth: Auer 1965
• Adventure in Goldland. Einsiedeln: Benziger 1956
• In the mirror. Novella. 1956
• Gold, the scourge of the peoples. Einsiedeln: Benziger 1956
• Gold for San Francisco. Einsiedeln: Benziger 1958
• The song of comradeship. Einsiedeln: Benziger 1959
• Breakdown at Fort Flatters. Einsiedeln: Benziger 1959
• Adventure all over the world. Youth book. Einsiedeln: Benziger 1959
• Shadow of world history. Of adventurers, deceivers and strange people. Einsiedeln: Benziger 1959
• The white mehari. Adventurous vacations in the Sahara. Solothurn: Schweizer Jugend-Verlag 1960
• The Kalypso logbook. Einsiedeln: Benziger 1960
• And don't you commit your life ... A Suvorov novel. Zurich: Swiss printing and publishing house 1960
• Hotel to the crown. Experiences of a house boy. Solothurn: Schweizer Jugend-Verlag 1961
• Jorgos and his friends. Einsiedeln: Benziger 1961
• Turn of life. Basel: Gute Schriften 1962
• Henri Dunant. His life and work in the service of humanity. Einsiedeln: Benziger 1963
• Ride through the desert. Donauwörth: Auer Cassianeum 1965
• The salt caravan. Donauwörth: Auer Cassianeum 1966
• The oil geiser. Donauwörth: Auer Cassianeum 1967
• Betrayed and sold. The history of the European mercenaries. Stuttgart: Goverts 1967; German Book Association 1969
• The trip to Gold Castile. A historical narrative. Donauwörth: Auer 1968
• The treasure of Montezuma. Donauwörth: Auer 1969
• The passengers of the Penelope. Novel. Zurich, Stuttgart: Classen 1970
• Night in the sunshine. Donauwörth: Auer 1970
• The siege of Tenochtitlan. Donauwörth: Auer 1971
• Farewell to the colonies. The rise and fall of the European colonial empires. Zurich, Freiburg / Br .: Atlantis 1972
• Troubled years. Episodes from my life. Zurich: Electricity 1972
• Heinrich Gyger. A Bernese patrician as an officer in the Napoleonic service. Zurich, Stuttgart: Classen 1974
• Game between light and dark. Ibid. 1975 - Heinrich Gyger, a Bernese patrician as an officer in Napoleonic service. Ibid. 1974
• The streets of the peoples. Discovery and adventure. Zurich, Cologne: Benziger 1977; Vienna: Book club Donauland 1980.

Radio plays: numerous Radio plays for German and Swiss channels.

literature

• H. Gellhaus: Albert Hochheimer, in: Communication of the culture committee of the city of Steinheim, issue 7, spring 1971.
• Collection: StLB Dortmund, personal collection: newspaper clippings collection.
• W. Sternfeld, E. Tiedemann (ed.): Dt. Exile. 1933-1945. A bio-bibliogr. Heidelberg, Darmstadt 1962
• Kosch, 3rd ed., Vol. 7, 1979
• Handb. Of German-speaking Emigration, Vol. 2, 1983
• Oberhauser / Oberhauser, 2nd edition 1983
• Westf. Literature guide 1992
• German Biogr. Archive, NF, Fiche 593, Col. 46

estate

Private ownership (J. Martinet, Hostun / France).

Web links

• Literature by and about Albert Hochheimer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Albert Hochheimer in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• Biography at Jüdische Literatur Westfalen