Felix Seebauer

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Felix Seebauer (born July 30, 1921 in Brno ; † February 7, 2003 ibid) was a German-Moravian journalist, author and translator. As an opponent of the National Socialist regime and in particular the establishment of the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , he spent the years from 1939 to 1945 in various prisons and camps.

Life

Seebauer attended the Evangelical Rudolph School in Brno , then the German Commercial School and the German Commercial Academy . The Gestapo arrested the then 17-year-old on the day the Protectorate was established (March 15, 1939) because he and Czech friends had protested against the German invasion in leaflets (according to another source in an article). On January 19, 1941, he was sentenced to eight years in prison by the People's Court in Potsdam for “ aiding and abetting high treason ”. Years of imprisonment in the Spielberg Fortress in Brno and in camps in prisons in Breslau-Kletschkaustraße, Bautzen, Dresden, Chemnitz, Bayreuth-St. Georgen and near the Müritz. When he returned to Brno in 1945, he suffered from pulmonary and intestinal tuberculosis .

Because of his clearly pro-Czech stance during the Nazi era, he was not initially expelled like most other Brno Germans, but was then arrested again because of his criticism of the expulsion and the increasing Stalinization of Czechoslovakia. At the end of February 1948, just days after the communist revolution in February , he was charged for political reasons and not least because of his German origins. The main hearing eight months later before the People's Court in Brno ended with an acquittal.

Felix Seebauer lived in Prague in the following years and worked mainly as a freelance translator, translating a total of 143 books from Czech into German for various publishers. From 1961 to 1966 he studied German and Slavic studies illegally for the most part, and he was finally able to take the three final exams in German at a time of political thaw in the CSSR . From 1968 to 1970 he was editor-in-chief of the (non-political) monthly magazine "Revue Merkur", chairman of the "Club Modernes Deutsch" and later the "Arge Inter-termin". From 1971 until 1989 (according to another source not until after 1989) he worked as the CSSR correspondent for the Austria Press Agency . In 1990 he founded the German-language Prager Wochenblatt , which he published as editor-in-chief until it was hired in 1997.

From 1989 until shortly before his death he reported for smaller German periodicals from the Czech Republic, including the Sudetendeutsche Zeitung, and gave lectures. In the mid-1990s, the Czech Republic officially recognized him as a "Czech resistance fighter of German nationality". At the end of the 1990s he moved from Prague to his hometown, where he founded the “German Language and Culture Association” together with younger Germans and Czechs, of which he was an honorary member until his death.

Seebauer also published several works of fiction, including his childhood memories from Brno ("Fröhlichergasse 15"). He also wrote “Brno Ghost Stories”, “Rübezahl”, the “Brno Decameron”, “The Story of Nathan Blumenbaum” and “Songs in Solitude”.

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SURNAME Seebauer, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Moravian journalist, author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2003
Place of death Brno