Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz
Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz , born Edgar Kupfer (born April 24, 1906 at Gut Koberwitz near Breslau , Province of Silesia , † July 7, 1991 near Stuttgart ) was a German journalist, poet and prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp . Kupfer-Koberwitz was the author of the “Dachau Diaries”, in which he describes the events in the concentration camp, the camp SS and the prisoner society.
Life
Edgar Kupfer, the son of an estate manager, first worked in agriculture and later as an office worker after completing secondary school. He also wrote poetry and newspaper articles on the side. Later he took the stage name Kupfer-Koberwitz .
After the National Socialists seized power, he emigrated to Paris in 1934 , where he hired himself as a hand weaver. From 1937 he worked for a travel company on the island of Ischia , which he should develop for tourism. In September 1940 he was expelled from Italy to Innsbruck because of a denunciation because he is said to have made derogatory statements against the Nazi regime and Italian fascism .
On November 11, 1940, Kupfer-Koberwitz was sent to the Dachau concentration camp by the Gestapo and from November 1942 he was a clerk in a Dachau satellite camp that worked for the armaments factory of the Präzifix screw factory . During this time, at risk of fatality, he wrote the manuscript from November 20, 1942 to May 2, 1945, known as the “Dachau Diaries”, which he initially hid at his workplace and later buried. In the course of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp , he was released at the end of April 1945.
After the liberation he lived in the USA until the end of the 1950s and from 1960 on Sardinia in the town of San Teodoro . In 1986 he returned to Germany, initially living with a family friend and finally in an anthroposophical nursing home near Stuttgart. Kupfer-Koberwitz was the author of several books; In addition to publications on the Dachau concentration camp and the island of Ischia, in 1947, as a staunch vegetarian, he wrote “Die Tierbrüder - a reflection on ethical life”, a passionate appeal against indifferent and cruel treatment of animals.
Fonts (selection)
- Life - Hell! , Stuttgart 1931
- The animal brothers , Man-Verlag, Augsburg 1947
- Chain of Days: Poems from Dachau , Hatje, Stuttgart 1947
- The forgotten island: A book about the volcanic island of Ischia , Wolff, Flensburg 1948
- The powerful and the helpless: As a prisoner in Dachau , Vorwerk, Stuttgart (Vol. 1. How it began in 1957, Vol. 2. How it ended in 1960)
- Dachau diaries: The records of the prisoner 24814 , Kindler, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-463-40301-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Reading by Barbara Distel : Dachauer Tagebücher. The records of prisoner 24814 Edgar Koberwitz on www.thomasneumann.info; accessed: April 14, 2019
- Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz - bequests on http://www.baylit.de
- Elke Schubert: A lltag in the camp. The Dachau diary of the prisoner Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz . In: Die Zeit online from July 4, 1997
- Björn Berg: Story of a Captivity. Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz: Dachauer diaries. Prisoner's Notes 24814 (Rezensio)
- About the author Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz on http://www.veggiswelt.de
- Freedom for animals (PDF file; 748 kB), issue 2/2011, p. 52f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Massimo Oggiano: Le campanelle di Cuffer ( sic ) . In: Il Levante . San Teodoro August 2019, p. 6 ( facebook.com/levanteicimar [accessed November 15, 2019]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kupfer-Koberwitz, Edgar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kupfer, Edgar (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist, author and concentration camp survivor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gut Koberwitz , Wroclaw District , Province of Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1991 |
| Place of death | near Stuttgart |