Eric Koch

Eric Koch (2009)

Eric Alfred Koch (born August 31, 1919 in Frankfurt am Main ; † April 28, 2018 in Toronto) was a Canadian radio journalist , writer and social scientist . He lived in Toronto .

Life

Eric Koch grew up in an assimilated Jewish family in Frankfurt am Main.

After Hitler came to power , the family emigrated to Great Britain in 1935 , where Koch began to study law at the University of Cambridge . In 1940 he was interned as an enemy alien and deported to Canada. There, after being recognized as a victim of the Nazi regime, Koch continued his studies at the University of Toronto . He worked for 35 years as a journalist and presenter at CBC , first for Radio Canada International and finally as regional director in Montreal.

He then taught at York University .

Works (selection)

• The recreational revolutionaries . Heyne, 1973, ISBN 3-453-30388-1 .
• The span of life . Heyne, 1976, ISBN 3-453-30532-9 .
  • CRUPP (includes "The Leisure Revolutionaries", "The Span Life") . Heyne, 1987, ISBN 3-453-00456-6 . Library of Science Fiction Literature , 67; Afterword by Florian F. Marzin
• Deemed suspect: A wartime blunder. Methuen, Toronto 1980
• Kassandrus. He could actually see the future, but no one believed him. Heyne, 1988, ISBN 3-453-03131-8 . Übers. Walter Brumm
• Hilmar and Odette: Two lives in Germany . Bleicher, 1998, ISBN 3-88350-658-3 .
• Love and Murder on Xananta . Eichborn, 1998, ISBN 3-8218-0237-5 .
• Nobel Prize for Goethe . Fischer, 1999, ISBN 3-596-14536-8 .
• I remember the location exactly. Mosaic Press 2005. Vorw. Alfred Grosser
  • The bride in the twilight. Memories . Weidle Verlag , 2008, ISBN 978-3-938803-11-0 . Translated by Ruth Keen, Stefan Weidle . Forward Alfred Grosser

literature

• Geneviève Susemihl: "... and it became my home." The assimilation and integration of the German-Jewish refugees from Hitler in New York and Toronto. Series: Studies in North American History, Politics and Society - Studies in North American History, Politics and Society, 21. Lit, Münster 2004

Partial estate

• Years 1937–1982. Signature at Library and Archives Canada : MG30-C192 / R2408-0-5-E. Koch's correspondence, documents from other internees, memories, poems, dramas, drawings, interview recordings, film material, photographs. Below : Private records - Second World War

Web links

• Literature by and about Eric Koch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Eric Koch in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Eric Koch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Works by and about Eric Koch at Open Library
• Eugen Banauch: "Home" as a thought between quotation marks. The Fluid Exile of Jewish Third Reich Refugee Writers in Canada 1940 - 2006. Full text Diss. Phil. University of Vienna , 2007. Eric Koch passim
  • Revised Fass. In Eugen Banauch: Fluid Exile: Jewish Exile Writers in Canada 1940 - 2006. Series: Anglistische Forschungen, 395. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2009, pp. 50 - 52 and passim
• German-born author Eric Koch was held in Canada during wartime. Full obituary, The Globe and Mail , May 11, 2018, by Fred Langan

notes

1. ^ Annotation of Death , The Globe and Mail , accessed May 2, 2018
2. ↑ On this measure: Annette Puckhaber, A privilege for a few. German-speaking migration to Canada in the shadow of National Socialism. Series: Studies in North American History, Politics and Society. Lit, Münster 2002. Zugl. Diss. Phil. University of Trier , 2000. Available in Google books .
3. ^ Table of contents on the German National Library: DNB 962797308
4. ↑ only published as a translation. The German National Library provides a false statement, not an original
5. ↑ Contains several passages from The Bride in Twilight
6. ↑ available in Google books . P. 211: Map of all internment camps in Canada for the first enemy aliens , then "friendly aliens"