Andreas von Klewitz

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Andreas von Klewitz (actually Klaus-Andreas von Klewitz; born April 9, 1960 in Wiesbaden ) is a German writer , film author and publicist .

family

Andreas von Klewitz is the son of the diplomat Wilhelm von Klewitz and his wife Hertha, b. Niemöller, a daughter of Martin Niemöller . Jan and Anti von Klewitz are his siblings. He is married and lives in Berlin.

Career

Klewitz grew up in Yugoslavia, Denmark and Berlin. After studying Slavic Studies and Eastern European / Southeast European History at the Free University of Berlin , he was a film author, translator and editor for Chronos-Film GmbH in Kleinmachnow ( Bengt von zur Mühlen ) from 1993 to 2001 . During this period, documentaries were created on the history of the Second World War , on allied war crimes trials , on the history of the resistance and on the Holocaust . In 1995 he made his first documentary film July 20, 1944 in Paris about the putsch of the German military administration against the Nazi regime. Work followed him. a. for the Archiv Verlag Braunschweig , WETA-Film Washington, rbb Fernsehen and Spiegel TV , finally the publication of several books on the subject of resistance, on Soviet war crimes trials and the US follow-up trials from 1946 to 1949 against members of the Wehrmacht and SS .

In 2004 Klewitz published his first novel Das Lied des Polyphemus. Portrait of a mass murderer published by Parthas Verlag in Berlin . Using real events, he tells the career of the (fictional) singing student Harald Gerneweg, who, having grown up in a middle-class background, comes to the SS more or less by chance and develops into a mass murderer. The novel appeared before Jonathan Littell's The Well-Minded and received a positive response due to its unusual perspective, its psychogrammatic character and the density of language. Der Erzchinese followed in 2004 , also with Parthas Berlin, further publications are: Café Vaterland ( Edition diá , Berlin 2013), Carl Chun, die Valdivia and the discovery of the deep sea (the preparation of a popular scientific bestseller about a deep sea expedition from 1900, published by Parthas Verlag , Berlin 2013), Endstation Deutschland (Verlag am Park, Berlin 2015), Kegilé or The Strange Journey of the valet Jeremias Grobschmied from Brandenburg to Africa (Edition diá, Berlin 2016) and Eisenhandschuh's last journey. The life and death of Governor Jørgen Iversen Dyppel (Edition diá, Berlin 2017).

Klewitz was u. a. Guest at the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Göttingen Literature Autumn and held readings at the Goethe Institutes in Minsk / Belarus and Almaty / Kazakhstan . In 2009 he received a working scholarship from the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers , Scotland, and in 2010 he was nominated as a scholar by the Society for Curious Thought, London . As an author of contemporary history and cultural contributions, he works for various newspapers. He also writes for various shipping magazines. He is a legal knight of the Order of St. John . For this he works as an editor .

Works (excerpt)

  • St. Franziskus , short story in: dtv-Taxigeschichten , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2002.
  • The Song of Polyphemus. Portrait of a mass murderer. Novel . Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2004.
  • Christmas in Minsk , short story in: All good things come from above? . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv Galleria), Munich 2004; Online publication on the Society for Curious Thought homepage, London 2009.
  • The Archchinese or how a foolish Silesian country gentleman became a great gentleman at the Prussian court. Novel . Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2005.
  • You have no new messages at the moment ; You don't treat yourself to anything else ; Gastronomy Reitfüßl in the Himmeltal ; In the stadium , short stories for Akazienblatt , Akazien Verlag, Berlin 2008.
  • Chester's dream or the governor of Wolkenstein , online publication of the MVB / Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels . Frankfurt am Main 2008.
  • Dahlem memories . In: war jewesen - West Berlin 1961–1989 , edited by Gabriela Wachter and Detlev Holland-Moritz , Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2009.
  • Malutki - A rural tale in eight acts to pictures by Lilla von Puttkamer . Self-published, Berlin 2012; New edition (Epubli) 2017.
  • Cafe Fatherland. Novel by two brothers . E-Book Edition diá, Berlin 2013.
  • Carl Chun, the Valdivia and the discovery of the deep sea , literary adaptation of the report of the first German deep sea expedition in 1898/99. Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-86964-071-6 .
  • End of the line in Germany. Novel . Verlag am Park, Berlin, 2015. ISBN 978-3-945187-27-2 .
  • Kiss me when the world ends The strange experiences of Commissioner Ivar Gullemose in the end times. Novel . Epubli, 2016. ISBN 978-3-7418-1804-2 .
  • Kegilé or the strange journey of the valet Jeremias Grobschmied from Brandenburg to Africa. Novel . Edition diá, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-86034-549-8 .
  • Iron Glove's last trip. The life and death of Governor Jørgen Iversen Dyppel. Novel . Edition diá, Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3-86034-550-4 .

more publishments

  • July 20, 1944 in Paris (Ed. With Bengt von zur Mühlen and Frank Bauer). Chronos Film GmbH, Kleinmachnow 1995.
  • The 12 Nuremberg Follow-up Trials 1946–1949 (Ed. With Bengt von zur Mühlen). Chronos Film GmbH, 1999.
  • The defendants of July 20 before the People's Court (Ed. With Bengt von zur Mühlen). Chronos Film GmbH, 2000.
  • Castles and mansions in the Lower Silesian district of Strehlen / Strzelin. An endangered European cultural heritage . CA Starke Verlag, Limburg 2002.
  • "As before times ..." A documentary about the Brandenburg-Prussian court preacher and Bishop Benjamin Ursinus von Bär . Zenkert Verlag, Mahlow 2011.
  • Johann Christoph Beckmann, Notes on the Knightly Order of St. John ... (Reprint). Finckenstein & Salmuth, 2012.
  • The Bailiwick of Brandenburg of the Knightly Order of Saint John of the Hospital of "Jerusalem". The Protestant Branch of the Knights. In: The Orders of St. John and their ties with Polish territories (edited by Przemyslaw Deles and Przemyslaw Mrozowski). Museum Königsschloss Warsaw / The Royal Castle in Warsaw-Museum, Arx Regia, Warsaw 2014, pp. 251–276.
  • Wolfgang von Gronau , The "flying Prince of Homburg". In: Schiff Classic , magazine for shipping and marine history eV of the DGSM , edition: 7/2019, pp. 38–41.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f No resistance without the will of the heart. In: daz.asia. GmbH Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung - Asia, February 26, 2010, accessed on June 16, 2018 .
  2. ^ Andreas von Klewitz: The family v. Klewitz. A slightly different chronicle. (PDF; 4.1 MB) written and revised by Andreas von Klewitz. In: klewitz.de. 2012, p. 72 , accessed on June 16, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Author: Andreas von Klewitz. In: wordpress.com. Retrieved June 16, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Carl Chun, The Valdivia and the Discovery of the Deep Sea. Author text. In: exlibris.ch. Retrieved June 16, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Uta Beiküfner: The fictional "Portrait of a mass murderer" by Andreas von Klewitz. Like a game of skittles. In: berliner-zeitung.de. March 10, 2005, accessed June 15, 2018 .
  6. ^ Andreas von Klewitz: Carl Chun, the Valdivia and the discovery of the deep sea. In: elementareslesen.de. Petra Wiemann, December 29, 2013, accessed June 16, 2018 .
  7. ^ Andreas von Klewitz: Die Johanniter, Archive 2017. In: http://www.johanniter.de/ . Johanniter, 2017, accessed June 18, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Archive 2011. In: johanniter.de. Retrieved June 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Klewitz, Andreas von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, film author and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden