Daniel Ganzfried

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Daniel Ganzfried (born August 3, 1958 in Afula , Israel ) is a Swiss journalist.

Life

Daniel Ganzfried came to Switzerland from Israel as a one year old, first to Wabern near Bern , then to Zurich in 1983 , he has lived in Elm GL since 2009 . He completed an apprenticeship as a publishing bookseller, spent several years in Israel, Latin America and the USA and has since worked as a freelance writer, journalist and manager in political campaigns. Ganzfried was co-editor of the publications on the “Hannah Arendt Days Zurich”. Ganzfried wrote, partly as a permanent employee, for the Keystone picture agency , Swiss Radio International , the news magazine Facts , the magazine Health Consultation Hour , the magazine Schweizer Familie and the newspapers Blick and Weltwoche .

In 1995 he published the novel Der Absender , which also provided the template for the film "Kaddish" (1997) by Hans Stürm and Beatrice Michel. In 1998 he was co-editor of the essay volume "After Totalitarism".

In 1998 Weltwoche published Ganzfried's research on the case of the alleged Auschwitz survivor Binjamin Wilkomirski , for which he received a Zurich Journalism Prize in 1999 , and in 2002 the story ... alias Wilkomirski was published. The Holocaust Travesty . In 2004, his report The Rabbi and the Geneva Account , published in Facts , caused the General Secretary of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) Israel Singer to resign over corruption.

Works (selection)

  • The sender . Novel. Zurich: Rotpunkt, 1995
  • The Holocaust Travesty. Narrative. In: Sebastian Hefti (Ed.): … Alias ​​Wilkomirski. The Holocaust Travesty . Berlin: Jüdische Verlagsanstalt, 2002, pp. 17–154, ISBN 3-934658-29-6

literature

  • Eva Lezzi: Daniel Ganzfried. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 160f.
  • Chaïm Vogt-Moykopf: glowing letters. Jewish thinking as a universal concept in German-language literature . Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2009 ISBN 978-3-593-38910-3 ; therein chapter: "Letters glow: On the warmth of text and textual liability of a thought": an assessment of the falsification scandal cases Stephan Hermlin and Binjamin Wilkomirski and their educators Karl Corino and Daniel Ganzfried.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Rabbi and the Geneva Account , Facts, November 4, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Ganzfried, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Afula , Israel