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Arthur "Art" Buchwald (born October 20, 1925 in Mount Vernon , New York , USA ; † January 17, 2007 in Washington, DC ) was an American publicist and humorist .
Life
Art Buchwald was the son of the Austrian - Jewish emigrant Joseph Buchwald and his Hungarian wife Helen Klineberger. Buchwald sen. fled to the United States before the war service in the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian army and opened a factory for the production of curtains and seat covers. Art Buchwald never got to know his mother, as she was admitted to a psychiatric clinic shortly after his birth and he later didn't dare to visit. He had three sisters, Alice, Edith and Doris. He grew up in Forest Hills, in a community of the Municipality Queens in New York City . He spent his childhood and youth in orphanages and replacement families. Here he learned to assert himself and find recognition by making people laugh. He stopped high school and joined the army when he was seventeen.
Buchwald served in the US Marine Corps Reserve from 1942 to 1945 . After working as a columnist for Variety magazine in the 1940s , he went to Paris in 1949 , where he worked for the New York Herald Tribune until 1962 . During this time he reported in his column collection "Paris After Dark" mainly on the nightlife of the French capital. From 1951 the column "Mostly About People" followed, later "Europe's Lighter Side".
In Paris he also met his wife Ann McGarry, who worked as a writer for the fashion designer Pierre Balmain in Paris. They married in 1952 and adopted three children.
His columns have appeared in more than 300 different US newspapers and magazines. Hailed as the "King of Satire", the author wrote more than 8,000 columns and 30 books.
Buchwald litigated Paramount Pictures in 1990 for the illegal adaptation of one of his stories. The film Coming to America based on this story (German: The Prince from Zamunda ) with Eddie Murphy was released in 1988. Buchwald won the trial.
After serious health problems, in particular a stroke in 2000, a severe kidney disease and a leg amputation in early 2006, Buchwald retired to a hospice on medical advice to die . There he held court extensively and, contrary to expectations, recovered so that he could leave the facility again. His last book, created during this time, he titled "Too Soon to Say Goodbye" (German title: I had no idea that dying can be so much fun ). Buchwald died on 17 January 2007 at a hospice in Washington, DC to kidney failure . Buchwald's wife Ann died in 1994.
In 1986 Buchwald was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Publications (selection)
- Little did I know dying could be so fun . Ullstein, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-550-08708-0 (English: Too soon to say goodbye . Translated by Nina Pallandt).
- Sleepyheads of all countries, unite! The inconsistencies of this world - impaled with a sharp pen . Fischer Digital, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-562100-4 .
- Just don't let it get you down . Fischer Digital, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-562099-1 .
- Nothing like trouble with computers - and other tales of suffering from the blessings of progress . Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-596-32088-2 (English: You can fool all of the people all the time . Translated by Hardo Wichmann).
Awards
In 1982 Buchwald received the Pulitzer Prize for his satirical commentary, which he had written for the Los Angeles Times and published as a book in 1983 ("While Reagan slept "). In 1986 he was elected to the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters .
Web links
- Literature by and about Art Buchwald in the catalog of the German National Library
- Buchwald's columns in the Washington Post , January 18, 2007, with video and a. m.
Obituaries
- "Laughing at death: satirist Art Buchwald died" , Die Welt , January 18, 2007
- “The American humorist Art Buchwald has died” , NZZ , January 19, 2007
- "Art Buchwald, 81 Columnist and humorist Who Delighted in the Absurd," , New York Times , January 18, 2007 with video
- "Satirist Art Buchwald this at 81. Columnist hit political targets, won Pulitzer Prize" , The Boston Globe January 19, 2007
Single receipts
- ↑ "Art Buchwald, 81 Columnist and humorist Who Delighted in the Absurd," , New York Times 18 January 2007
- ↑ "Der Spiegel" issue 4/2007
- ↑ Members: Art Buchwald. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 18, 2019 .
- ↑ 1982 Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buchwald, Art |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Buchwald, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American publicist and humorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mount Vernon , New York , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 2007 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC , USA |