Eduard Klein

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Eduard Klein (born July 25, 1923 in Vienna , † January 2, 1999 in Berlin ) was a German writer and translator .

Life

Eduard Klein came from a Jewish merchant family. He attended the commercial academy in Vienna and worked as a commercial clerk . After Austria's annexation to the German Reich , Eduard Klein fled with his father and older brother Walter Klein to Czechoslovakia in 1938 and then to Chile via Dakar at the end of 1939 . It was there that Klein began to write literary texts. In 1943 he joined the Communist Party of Chile .

In 1953 he returned to Europe and settled as a freelance writer in East Berlin . Eduard Klein was a member of the SED and, since 1956, of the GDR Writers' Association ; from 1991 he was a member of the Association of German Writers . From 1959 to 1961 he was a full-time secretary of the German Writers' Association. From 1967 to 1981 he was a member of the Berlin city council . From November 1967 he was employed as a lay judge at the Berlin City Court.

Eduard Klein wrote socially critical novels and stories that belong to the adventure genre and are set mainly in South America , but also some books on current problems in GDR society. In the 1950s he translated a number of novels from English . Some of his books appeared in the GDR series " Excitingly told ".

Klein was married to the puppeteer Inge Borde-Klein . He is buried with her at the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery in the row of artist graves.

Awards

Works

Novels and short stories

  • Señor Contreras and Justice , Berlin 1954
  • The Feuerberg , Berlin 1957
  • Gold transport , Berlin 1957
  • Escape , Berlin 1958
  • The Indian , Berlin 1958
  • Northern sun, southern snow , Halle (Saale) 1958
  • Treason , Berlin 1959
  • El Quisco , Berlin 1962
  • The road to San Carlos , Berlin 1965
  • Alchemists , Berlin 1967
  • Explosives for Santa Inés , Berlin 1968
  • The prisoner of the Toba Indians , Berlin 1970
  • Salt of Justice , Berlin 1970
  • Santiago de Chile , Berlin 1972 (together with Thomas Billhardt and Eberhard Hackethal)
  • Severino von den Insel , Berlin 1972
  • The Path of the Dead , Berlin 1973
  • Next year in Jerusalem , Berlin 1976
  • Land of Cold , Berlin 1977
  • The emerald mine , Berlin 1979
  • Mein Schiffchen, das sails therefore , Berlin 1981 (together with Inge Borde-Klein)
  • The burden of the mountains , Berlin 1982
  • Return of the Indians , Berlin 1984
  • Fever on the Amazon , Berlin 1986
  • Terminal 8 - top secret , Berlin 1988
  • The Incas Garden , Berlin 1990
  • Das Zauberschloß , Berlin 1993 (together with Inge Borde)
  • The track of the jaguar , Staßfurt 1997

Translations

Film adaptations

Radio plays

literature

  • Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ-Biographie , Bonn / Berlin 1964, p. 180.
  • Meyers Taschenlexikon, GDR writer . VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1975, pp. 275f.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 627f.

Web links

Commons : Eduard Klein  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Hello, Eduard Klein, what are you working on? . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 12, 1967, p. 10.