Erich Pfeiffer-Belli

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Erich Pfeiffer-Belli (pseudonym: Andreas Heldt ) (born August 18, 1901 in Heidelberg ; † November 27, 1989 in Munich ) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

Pfeiffer-Belli came from a long-established and wealthy family in Frankfurt am Main and grew up in the upper class milieu of his hometown. His father was the writer and literary scholar Wilhelm Pfeiffer-Belli . The grandparents lived in a representative classical building at Neue Mainzer Straße 55, which still exists today.

Pfeiffer-Belli studied art at the Bauhaus in Weimar and training in bookbinding workshop of Paul Klee . In 1926 he married Charlotte Stern . Her daughter, born in 1928, was the writer Silvia Tennenbaum . The marriage ended in divorce soon after.

In 1929 Pfeiffer-Belli became the features editor of the Königsberger Hartungschen Zeitung . After they closed, he wrote for the Stuttgarter Neue Tagblatt in 1933/34 and for the Berliner Tageblatt in 1935–37 . On the mediation of Benno Reifenberg he became cultural editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung in 1938 and of the Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten from 1943 on .

After the Second World War , Pfeiffer-Belli lived as an art and theater critic in Munich , where he mainly worked for the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Pfeiffer-Belli wrote novellas and short stories (including Die Reise nach Chur , 1941) and edited works by Rudolf Kassner and Rainer Maria Rilke . With Willy Droemer he worked on the series “Bücher und Welt”. In 1986 his autobiographical work Young Years in Old Frankfurt and a Long Life Journey was published .

literature

Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer-Belli, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heldt, Andreas (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1989
Place of death Munich