Anna Langfus

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Anna Langfus
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Anna Langfus (born January 2, 1920 in Lublin , Poland as Anna-Regina Szternfinkiel ; died May 12, 1966 in Paris ) was a Polish-French writer.

Life

She was born to an assimilated Jewish family. At the age of 15 she was already publishing short stories in Polish magazines. She studied mathematics at the Polytechnic in Verviers (Belgium), where she went with her first husband Jakob Reis in 1938 after graduating from high school. When the war broke out in 1939 , the couple were on vacation in Poland and from then on were subjected to the worst persecution in the course of the repression of the German occupiers against the Jewish population. Both were deported to the Lublin ghetto . An escape failed. Szternfinkiel and her husband were suspected of being Russian spies and tortured. Later her husband was murdered as well as her parents. She fled again and joined the Polish Home Army .

After the Red Army marched in at the beginning of 1945, she returned to Lublin. In 1946 she left Poland and settled in France, where she first worked in an orphanage and later worked as a mathematics teacher in Rueil-Malmaison . She married Aron Langfus, whom she already knew from Poland, and gave birth to a daughter Maria. In her new home she was culturally involved and took part in the activities of various Jewish institutions. She joined the French Judaism group , with which she went to Israel and visited, among other things, the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem .

As one of the first Jewish and female survivors of the Shoah, she began her literary work in French about her experience of persecution, murder and survival. In France, she wrote three novels as well as at least two plays and several radio plays before her untimely death. Anna Langfus died unexpectedly at the age of 46. She was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Bagneux .

Awards

  • 1961 "Prix Charles Veillon" for the novel Le sel et le soufre
  • 1962 Prix ​​Goncourt for the novel Les bagages de sable

Works

  • Les Lepreux Dt .: The lepers . Play, 1952 (world premiere 1956; directed by Sascha Pitoeff)
  • Amos ou les fausses esperances. German: Amos or the false hopes . Play. First performance in 1963 in Brussels
  • Salt and sulfur. (Le sel et le soufre) Translated by Martha Johanna Hofmann. Lucas Cranach, Munich 1964
  • Baggage made of sand. (Les bagages de sable) Translated by Yvonne Meier-Haas. Piper, Munich 1964
  • Saute, Barbara Gallimard, Paris 1966 (only French published)
  • The last witness radio play. Hessischer Rundfunk 1966 (Director: Fränze Roloff)
  • Guide juif de France by Roger Berg, with collabor. by Anna Langfus. Edition Migdal

literature

  • Joe Friedemann: Langages du désastre. Robert Antelme , Anna Langfus, André Schwarz-Bart , Jorge Semprun , Elie Wiesel . Nizet, Saint-Genouph 2007 ISBN 9782707812964 (French).
  • Erwin Miedtke: Anna Langfus (1920–1966) - a European author. In: European education, 1-2008, pp. 16–19
  • Judith Klein : Literature and Genocide: Representations of the National Socialist mass extermination in French literature . Vienna: Böhlau, 1992, pp. 108–126

Web links

Commons : Anna Langfus  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna Langfus. ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ośrodek Brama Grodzka - Teatr NN. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tnn.pl
  2. ↑ 2008_1_Europaeische Erbildung.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Langfus, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Szternfinkiel, Anna-Regina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-French writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Lublin
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1966
Place of death Paris