Anton Dieterich

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Anton Dieterich (born February 7, 1908 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † August 4, 2002 in Madrid ) was a German journalist and Hispanist .

Life

After attending the Klösterleschule and the Realgymnasium in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Dieterich obtained his Abitur at the Konvikt in Rottweil . He then studied art history , Romance studies and newspaper studies at the universities of Munich , Paris , Rome and Berlin . Finally his studies, he was in 1931 with a thesis on the Italian press and propaganda in World War II from 1914 to 1918 in Munich to Dr phil. PhD. After an editorial traineeship at the Gmünder Zeitung in his hometown, he joined the Stuttgarter Neue Tagblatt in March 1933 as an assistant editor . His first trip to Spain took place in October 1934 to report on the Asturian miners' strike of 1934 . Further stays in Spain followed in 1937 and 1939 as a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War . At the end of 1939 he settled in Madrid as a foreign correspondent for German newspapers. There he married the Spanish schoolteacher Genoveva Arenas Carabantes and had three children.

After military service , for which he was called up in 1944, and five years of Soviet captivity , Dieterich moved back to Madrid in 1951, where he lived and worked until his death. His interest in art and thus the basis of his work came about through contact with the Schwäbisch Gmünder artists Fritz Nuss and Jakob Wilhelm Fehrle, among others .

The author, known as a Prado connoisseur, received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 1984 for his services to German-Spanish relations.

Works

Books

  • From Altamira to the Alcázar, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1954.
  • With camera and Volkswagen in Spain, with photos by Bert Boger, Chr.Belser, Stuttgart 1955.
  • Spain between Cádiz, Córdoba and Valencia, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1957.
  • Kings, artists, toreros. Spanish anecdotes, Bechtle, Esslingen 1958.
  • Tour of the Prado Madrid, Hirmer, Munich 1969.
  • Goya, one night's visions. Drawings, DuMont, Cologne 1972.
  • Central Spain: Art and culture in Madrid, El Escorial, Toledo and Aranjuez, Avila, Segovia, Alcalá de Henares, DuMont, Cologne 1st edition 1975, 2nd edition 1987, ISBN 3-7701-0812-4 .
  • Miguel de Cervantes, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1st edition 1984, 2nd edition 1990, ISBN 3-499-50324-7 .
  • The Prado in Madrid, DuMont, Cologne 1992.

Essays

  • Not only Ortega y Gasset , in word and truth , 3-IX., Freiburg 1954.
  • The Rome of Spain (Toledo) , in Westermanns Monatshefte 1, Braunschweig 1957.
  • Castles in Spain , in Westermanns Monatshefte 7, Braunschweig 1959.
  • Unspoiled Ibiza , in Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza , Merian 3- XIII, Hamburg 1960.
  • Spanish literature , in Lexicon of World Literature in the XXth Century, Herder, Freiburg 1960.
  • Literature under Franco , in word and truth , 2-XV, Freiburg 1960.
  • Góngora's last metamorphosis , in word and truth , 12-XVI, Freiburg 1961.
  • Theater der Welt, Spain , in Westermannsmonthshefte 6, Braunschweig 1962.
  • Spain's suffering from civil war , in word and truth , 3-XVII, Freiburg 1962.
  • Once as big as Biberach , in Madrid , Merian 11-XVI, Hamburg 1963.
  • Unforgettable: Granada, Ronda, Tanger , in Costa del Sol , Merian 2-XIX, Hamburg 1966.
  • Dürer on the Iberian Peninsula , in Albrecht Dürer's Almanach , Verlag Nürnberger Presse, Nuremberg 1971.
  • El Escorial, the heart of the Spanish soul , in Westermannsmonthshefte 6, Braunschweig 1971.
  • Francisco Goya: Visions for Today , in Westermanns Monatshefte 10, Braunschweig 1971.
  • Punic art , in Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza , Merian 2-XXVI, Hamburg 1973.
  • El Greco, between incomprehension and exuberance , in Westermanns MONTHLY 6, Braunschweig 1974.
  • The street of St. Jacob , in Basque Country, Asturias, Galicia , Merian 4-XXVII, Hamburg 1974.
  • Velázquez in the Prado,, in Lynkeus , Biberach 1975.
  • German settlers in the Sierra Morena , in Andalusia , Merian 5-XXX, Hamburg 1977.
  • Ortega in and since the Spanish Civil War , in José Ortega y Gasset Collected Works in 6 Vols., Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1978.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Dieterich: Declaration of love to Schwäbisch Gmünd, in: Merian 6, XVIII, Hamburg 1965.

literature

  • Hans-Helmut Dieterich: In memoriam Dr. Anton Dieterich, in: Einhorn-Jahrbuch 2003, Einhornverlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2003, ISBN 3-936373-10-8 , p. 80.

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personal data
SURNAME Dieterich, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Gmünd
DATE OF DEATH August 4, 2002
Place of death Madrid