Christian Ferber

Christian Ferber (born October 31, 1919 in Eberswalde ; † March 26, 1992 in Midhurst / GB), actually Georg Heinrich Balthasar Seidel , was a German writer and journalist.

Life

After studying, war and imprisonment, the son of the poet Ina Seidel and the pastor and writer Heinrich Wolfgang Seidel was initially a publisher and journalist, later a theater critic, responsible editor and cultural correspondent of the newspaper Die Welt .

Literary work

Ferber used u. a. the pseudonyms Lisette Mullère and Simon Glas and never published under his real name. After the war, he published the novels: The Net (1951), The weak points (1953) and Everyone as he can (1956), as well as a booklet in 1957 with marriage considerations under the title Love, and a little more . Ferber, who wrote novels, radio plays and essays, emerged as a literary satirist, e. B. Bonner Patiencen (1963) or Die Moritat vom Eigenheim (1967).

He brought the eventful history of his own family as Die Seidels. History of a Bourgeois Family 1811–1977 (1979) also published under a pseudonym.

Honors

He received the Theodor Wolff Prize twice, in 1967 and 1973. In his memory, the German Schiller Foundation awards the Christian Ferber Prize .

literature

• I could write a book. The autobiographical sketches of Georg Seidel (1919–1992) . Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 1996. ISBN 3-89244-227-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Ferber in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

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