Alfredo Bauer

Alfredo Bauer ( pseudonyms Jorge Bermúdez Blanco , Alfredo Ackermann and Roberto Bandler; born November 14, 1924 in Vienna ; died May 21, 2016 in Buenos Aires ) was an Austrian-Argentine doctor, writer , translator and Marxist theorist.

Life

Alfredo Bauer came from a Jewish family. After the annexation of Austria , he emigrated to Argentina with his parents . He attended the German-speaking anti-fascist Pestalozzi School in Buenos Aires and was politically active in the Communist Youth Association.

After the Second World War he stayed in Argentina, studied medicine and worked as a gynecologist . He had been a member of the Communist Party of Argentina since 1946 and repeatedly came into conflict with the ruling regimes because of his political demands.

Awards

Prizes and awards:

1982: “Faja de Honor” of the Sociedad Argentiña de Escritores
1987: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize of the GDR
1991: “Faja de Honor” of the Sociedad Argentina de Escritores
1994: Translation grant from the City of Vienna
2002: Theodor Kramer Prize for writing in resistance and in exile by the Theodor Kramer Society (together with Fritz Kalmar )

Fonts (selection)

La mujer, ser social y conciencia. 1970.
Historia Crítica de los Judíos. 1971. (German: Critical History of the Jews. Neue Impulse, Essen 2005. Download in German: Volume 1 Volume 2 ;
- New edition 2013, foreword by Moshe Zuckermann )
Los compañeros antepasados. 1976.
Witch Trial in Tucumán and other chronicles from the New World . Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85115-230-1 .
with Gerhard Giesa: "Here I start to sing ..." Poems related to the Argentinean gaucho epic "Martín Fierro". German revisions and explanations by Alfredo Bauer and Gerhard Giesa (= Stuttgart work on German studies. Volume 407). Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-88099-412-9 .
Myth scenes . Mini dramas. André Thiele, Mainz 2009, ISBN 978-3-940884-17-6 .
The predecessors. Novel cycle . Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-901602-46-7 .

literature

Alfredo Bauer: I bring my roots to Argentina. In: Gert Eisenbürger (Ed.): Paths of life. 15 biographies between Europe and Latin America . Verlag Libertäre Assoziation, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-922611-48-6 , pp. 109–118 (interview with Gert Eisenbürger following the biography of Alfredo Bauer, pp. 111–118; preliminary biographical note by Gert Eisenbürger, pp. 109–110 ).
Regula Rohland de Langbehn, Miguel Vedda (Ed.): Homenaje a Alfredo Bauer. (= Anuario Argentino de Germanística ). Publishing house Associación Argentina de Germanistas (AAG), Buenos Aires 2012, ISBN 978-987-22406-8-4 . (Spanish).
Siglinde Bolbecher: Báuer, Alfredo. 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 , p. 26 f.

Web links

Literature by and about Alfredo Bauer in the catalog of the German National Library
Alfredo Bauer in the literature archive of the Austrian National Library
Bauer in the exile archive
Biography of Alfredo Bauer
Short biography on klahrgesellschaft.at
Standard interview with Alfredo Bauer: "It was Austria's enemies who drove us out" (October 23, 2009)
2010: Alfredo Bauer honored as a personality of Viennese cultural life

Individual evidence

↑ Exile author Alfredo Bauer dies , obituary, in: Wiener Zeitung , May 23, 2016.
^ Alfredo Bauer: A piece of democratic tradition. 130th anniversary of the founding of the socialist association Forward in Buenos Aires. In: ila . ISSN 0946-5057 , Vol. 25, No. 361, 2012, pp. 50-52.
↑ On this, and in particular on Stefan Zweig's visit to the school, he is extensively quoted as a contemporary witness in an article published in 2014: Robert Kelz: True to Himself: Stefan Zweig's Visit to Argentina in September 1936. In: Birger Vanwesenbeeck, Mark H. Gelber ( Ed.): Stefan Zweig and world literature: twenty-first century perspectives. Camden House, Rochester (New York), 2014, ISBN 978-1-57113-924-5 , pp. 155-172.

personal data
SURNAME	Bauer, Alfredo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian-Argentinian doctor, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	November 14, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	May 21, 2016
Place of death	Buenos Aires

[1] Exile author Alfredo Bauer dies , obituary, in: Wiener Zeitung , May 23, 2016.

[2] Alfredo Bauer: A piece of democratic tradition. 130th anniversary of the founding of the socialist association Forward in Buenos Aires. In: ila . ISSN 0946-5057 , Vol. 25, No. 361, 2012, pp. 50-52.

[3] On this, and in particular on Stefan Zweig's visit to the school, he is extensively quoted as a contemporary witness in an article published in 2014: Robert Kelz: True to Himself: Stefan Zweig's Visit to Argentina in September 1936. In: Birger Vanwesenbeeck, Mark H. Gelber ( Ed.): Stefan Zweig and world literature: twenty-first century perspectives. Camden House, Rochester (New York), 2014, ISBN 978-1-57113-924-5 , pp. 155-172.