Arnold Bender

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Arnold Bender ( pseudonym : Mark Philippi , born June 12, 1904 in Werne near Bochum as Arnold Siegfried Bender ; † April 16, 1978 in Port Isaac / Cornwall ) was a German - British writer .

Life

Arnold Bender came from a Jewish family; his father was a master butcher. Arnold Bender attended a secondary school in Bochum; at his father's insistence, he had to end school prematurely. He worked for two years as an employee of a bank in Dortmund and then for a trade guild there until his dismissal in August 1933 . During this time he was already active in literature and as a freelancer wrote articles for the " Dortmunder Generalanzeiger ". In April 1934, Bender decided to leave Germany; it came to Great Britain via Denmark and Sweden in September 1934 .

In Great Britain, Arnold Bender worked as a tutor at the University of Manchester and in the relief work for German emigrants, as well as a German teacher, speaker and tour guide. In 1940 he volunteered for the British Army , where he was a member of the Engineer Corps . After the invasion of Normandy , he was used in 1944 to interrogate German prisoners of war in Belgium . In September 1945, his service in the army ended and Bender was granted British citizenship. He later had both British and German citizenship . He traveled regularly to Germany and was often in Dortmund. In Great Britain he worked as a German teacher at Derby Technical College and at Nottingham University . After becoming economically independent through an inheritance in 1953, he ran a tea room in Rye (East Sussex) until 1966 . He spent the last years of his life in Port Isaac / Cornwall . Bender, who had broken away from Judaism in his youth, later became close to the Quakers .

Arnold Bender was the author of novels, stories, essays and poems, and he also translated from German into English. Although he continued to write mainly in German while in exile, two of his novels have only appeared in English and French translations. Bender's extensive estate, which is kept in the Dortmund City and State Library , includes a large number of unpublished works.

Arnold Bender was a member of the PEN Club of German-Speaking Authors Abroad . In 1940 he received the Thomas Mann Prize of the American Guild for German Cultural Freedom for the novel "It is later because you know".

Works (selection)

  • The farm by the lake , London 1943 (English translation of Bender's novel "It's later than you know")
  • Il est plus tard que vous ne pensez , Paris 1948 (under the name Mark Philippi; French translation of Bender's novel "It is later than you know")
  • L'homme sans passé , Paris 1960 (French translation of Bender's novel "The Bridge Saint")
  • The English , Frankfurt (Main) 1971

Translations into English

  • Lina Haag : How long the night , London 1948 (translated together by Ernest Walter Dickes)
  • Annemarie Selinko : Désirée , London [u. a.] 1953 (translated together with Ernest Walter Dickes)
  • Erik Wickenburg : A pocket history of Vienna , Frankfurt (Main) 1972

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personal data
SURNAME Bender, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philippi, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Werne
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1978
Place of death Port Isaac , Cornwall