Arnošt Lustig

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Arnošt Lustig (2009)

Arnošt Lustig (born December 21, 1926 in Prague ; † February 26, 2011 ibid) was a Czech writer and publicist who mainly dealt with the Holocaust in his works .

Life

After attending the secondary school in Prague, from which he was expelled as a Jew in 1941, he was interned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp on November 13, 1942 and later transferred to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and finally to the Buchenwald concentration camp . In 1945 he escaped from a transport to the Dachau concentration camp . Lustig hid in various places until the end of the war. After the war he began studying at the Charles University in Prague in 1946 . In 1948 he went to Israel as a reporter for the Israeli War of Independence on behalf of Lidové noviny .

After his return he worked as an editor for the Czechoslovak Radio , as head of the cultural section in the daily Mladý svět (Young World) and as a screenwriter for Czechoslovak TV . He left the country after the Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia in August 1968. He first went to Yugoslavia and worked there in the Zagreb film studio . After a short time in Israel, he lived in the USA from 1970 . There he worked from 1973 to 2003 as a professor of film and literature at the American University in Washington, DC Since the 1990s, he lived again temporarily in Prague and commuted between Prague and Washington, DC from 1995 to 1997 he was editor-in-chief of the Czech edition of the magazine Playboy . After his retirement from the American University in 2003, he moved his permanent residence back to Prague. He was close friends with the writer Ota Pavel .

The multiple award-winning documentary Fighter , which was released in 2000 and directed by Amir Bar-Lev , traces the escape route of Jan Wiener († 2010), a friend of Lustig, from a National Socialist labor camp in Prague in the form of a kind of road movie . Lustig accompanies him and tries to write down Wiener's experiences. As the film progresses, the two of them have philosophical and emotional conversations and discussions about their memories.

His father Emil Lustig was deported in 1943, first to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and in September 1944 to Auschwitz, where he was murdered. A stumbling block was laid for him in Prague.

Award

Works (a selection)

Most of his works dealt with the life of Jews during World War II and the Holocaust. He dealt with the psyche and the relationships of the individual to the events described.

stories

  • 1957: Noc a naděje (Night and Hope)
  • 1958: Démanty noci (German: Diamonds of the Night . Translated by Lotte Elsner-Reiter and Rudolf Iltis. Artia Verlag, Prague 1964).
  • 1959: Ulice ztracených bratří (The Street of the Lost Brothers)
  • 1961: První stanice štěstí (First station luck / happiness)
  • 1962: Transport from Paradise (Transport z ráje)
  • 1963: Nikoho neponížíš (You will not humiliate anyone)
  • 1966: Bílé břízy na podzim (White Birches in Autumn)
  • 1966: Propast: Román (Abyss: Roman)
  • 1968: Hořká vůně mandlí (The bitter smell of the almonds)

Novellas

  • 1961: Můj známý Vili Feld (My friend Vili Feld)
  • 1962: Dita Saxová (Dita Saxová)
  • 1979: Nemilovaná: Z deníku sedmnáctileté Perly Sch. In German: The Unloved - from the diary of a seventeen year old . Translated by Andreas Roschal, Roitman Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-923510-09-8 . New edition expanded by the author, translated by Peter Sacher with an afterword by Jiří Gruša. Ullstein Verlag , Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-548-30224-6 .

Collective works

  • 1962: Noc a den (night and day)
  • 1964: Vlny v řece (waves in the river)

Novels

  • 1964: Modlitba pro Kateřinu Horovitzovou . Novel. In German: A prayer for Katharina Horowitzová . Translated by Peter Sacher. Luchterhand-Literaturverlag, Hamburg, 1991. ISBN 3-630-86764-2 . New edition Berliner Taschenbuch-Verlag , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-8333-0338-8 .
  • 1968: Miláček (darling)
  • 1990: Král promluvil, neřekl nic (The king spoke, he said nothing)
  • 1991: Tma nemá stín ( darkness does not cast shadows ). Roman, translated by Peter Ambros. Luchterhand Literaturverlag , Munich 1994. ISBN 3630868401 .
  • 1991: Velká trojka (The Great Trojka)
  • Trilogy o osudech tří židovských žen (trilogy about the fate of three Jewish women):
    • 1992: Colette: Dívka z Antverp (Colette: A girl from Antwerp)
    • 1992: Tanga: Dívka z Hamburku (Tanga: A girl from Hamburg)
    • 2000: Lea: Dívka z Leeuwardenu (Lea: A girl from Leeuwarden)
  • 1994: Dům vrácené ozvěny (The House of the Returned Echoes)
  • 1995: Dívka s jizvou (The Girl with the Scar)
  • 1995: Kamarádi (comrades)
  • 1995: Modrý den (A blue day)
  • 1995: Porgess (Porgess)
  • 1997: Neslušné sny ( Indecent Dreams)
  • 1998: Oheň na vodě: Povídky (Fire on Water: Stories)
  • 1999: Dobrý den, pane Lustig: Myšlenky o životě (Hello, Mr. Lustig: Thoughts on life)
  • 2000: Krásné zelené oči . Novel. In German: your green eyes . Translated from the Czech by Silvia Morawetz and Werner Schmitz . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2007. ISBN 9783827005762 .
  • 2002: Zasvěcení (The Consecration )
  • 2007: Dita Saxonová

Other works, essays

  • 2000: Odpovědi: Rozhovory s Harry Jamesem Cargassem a Michalem Bauerem (Answers: Conversations with Harry James Cargass and Michal Bauer)
  • 2001: Eseje: Vybrané texty z let 1965–2000 (Essays: Selected texts from the years 1965–2000)
  • 2004: Esence (The Essence)

Autobiography

  • 2002: 3x18 (portréty a postřehy) (3x18 - portraits and observations)

Film adaptations

Memberships

Web links

Commons : Arnošt Lustig  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Marci Shore : The taste of ash. The afterlife of totalitarianism in Eastern Europe . Translated from the English by Andrea Stumpf. CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 340665455X
  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 232 (very brief biographical outline).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.novinky.cz/kultura/226282-zemrel-spisovatel-arnost-lustig.html
  2. ↑ Film summary (English)
  3. ↑ S.Lillian Kremer: Holocaust Literature - Lerner to Zychlinsky, p 779, Routledge, New York 2003
personal data
SURNAME Funny, Arnošt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 2011
Place of death Prague