Charles Haldeman

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Charles Haldeman (born 27. September 1931 in Pickens , South Carolina as Charles Heuss , died 19th January 1983 in Athens ) was an American author .

Life

Charles Heuss was born the son of a German emigrant; after his early death, he was adopted by his mother's second husband. The family moved around a lot due to work.

Haldeman attended Erskine College in South Carolina , Antioch College in Ohio, and the Ringling College of Art and Design in Florida . He completed four years of military service in the United States Navy until 1954 and then studied from 1955 for two years at Heidelberg University . He traveled through Europe and found a job in Greece as a teacher at the American Community Schools of Athens. From 1959 he was settled in Crete .

Haldeman wrote his first novel The Sun's Attendant , published in 1963 , in which he settles the lives of two protagonists, one of them the writer Rainer Maria Gerhardt (1927-1954), in recent German history, as a diptych . Two more novels followed, scripts for documentaries about places in Greece and the screenplay for the film Johnny Minotaur (1971) by Charles Henri Ford .

He also developed friendships with many writers and poets of the time, not least among them Nikos Gatsos , the Greek poet, and the American writer Henry Miller . Disturbing older Miller at work, he later wrote in the foreword to his book “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”: “My heartfelt thanks go to Charles Haldeman, who came all the way from Winter Park , Florida, for Wilhelm To put Franger's book Hieronymus Bosch in my hands. May he forgive me for being such a poor host that day! ”(Translated). Peter Levi , the English poet and travel writer, speaks in a 1979 interview for The Paris Review about dinner and trying to write surrealist poetry with Gatsos and Haldeman: “Towards the end of the evening Nikos suddenly said, 'You know, I remember, when we were young and surrealism was all the rage, Elytis and I played a game often. Shall we play it? '”The result became Levi's poem: Pancakes for the Queen of Babylon , which Haldeman remembers as a warm and passionate man who often (despite his often precarious financial position as a full-time writer) met other writers and artists and met many travelers.

Works

  • The Sun's Attendant, a diptych. Simon and Schuster, New York 1963.
    • The sun watcher. From the American by Egbert Hörmann and Uta Goridis. With an afterword by Martin Meyer. Metrolit, Berlin 2015.
  • The Snowman. Simon and Schuster, New York 1965.
  • Teagarden's gang. Cape, London 1971.
  • without graves — no resurrections. Poems. Preface by Peter Levi . Five Seasons Press, Madley 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Haldeman , at Aufbau-Verlag
  2. ↑ Johnny Minotaur (1971) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  3. ↑ Jannika Hurwitt: Peter Levi, The Art of Poetry No. 24 Interview with Peter Levi, issue 76, autumn 1979, on theparisreview.org
personal data
SURNAME Haldeman, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Pickens, South Carolina
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1983
Place of death Athens