Alfred Gong

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Alfred Gong (born August 14, 1920 in Czernowitz , Romania as Alfred Liquornik ; died October 18, 1981 in New York City ) was a Romanian-American, German-speaking writer.

Life

After high school, he studied Romance studies and comparative literature at the University of Chernivtsi in Romania. In his youth, Alfred Liquornik was friends with Paul Celan and Immanuel Weissglas . In 1940 he was hired as a village school teacher by the Soviet annex power, but his family was deported to Siberia. After the German and Romanian conquest of Bukovina in 1941, he was ghettoized as a Jew and deported to a labor camp in Transnistria , from which he was able to flee to Bucharest . In Bucharest he worked for the Capitala newspaper . After the Communists came to power, he fled to Vienna via Budapest . From 1946 to 1951 he lived in Vienna and moved to the USA in 1956 . In 1957 he was naturalized there under the name Alfred Gong . He worked for various magazines, was friends with the writer Rose Ausländer from Chernivtsi in New York and took part in the Oskar Maria Graf regulars' table .

Works (selection)

  • Israel's last psalm. Poems. Rimbaud, Aachen 1995, ISBN 3-89086-929-7 .
  • Grass and omega. Poems. (1960) Rimbaud, Aachen 1997, ISBN 3-89086-967-X .
  • Manifest Alpha. Poems. (Bergland Verlag Vienna 1961) Rimbaud, Aachen 2001, ISBN 3-89086-735-9 .
  • Happening on Park Avenue. New York Stories Piper, Munich 1969.
  • Grace period. Poems. (1980) Rimbaud, Aachen 2006, ISBN 3-89086-733-2 .

literature

  • Bernhard Albers (Ed.): Blue owl suffering. Bukovina 1940–1944. Rimbaud, Aachen 2003 ISBN 3-89086-806-1
  • Natalia Shchyhlevska: Alfred Gong. Life and Work , New German-American Studies Volume 32, Peter Lang, Bern 2009 ISBN 978-3-03911-420-7
  • Gong, Alfred. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 9: Glass Green. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-598-22689-6 , pp. 242-248.
  • Peter Rychlo : Transatlantic Odysseus of the 20th Century. In: “Zwischenwelt. Literature, Resistance, Exile. "Ed. Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft , Jg. 33, H. 1-2, Vienna 2016 1606-4321 pp. 5–8 (detailed biography)
  • Joachim Herrmann: Gong, Alfred. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 174f.

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personal data
SURNAME Gong, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liquornik, Alfred (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-speaking writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernivtsi
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1981
Place of death New York City