George Clare
George Peter Clare (born Georg Peter Klaar December 21, 1920 in Vienna ; died March 26, 2009 ) was a British journalist of Austrian origin.
Life
Georg Klaar's father Ernst Klaar (1889–1942) was a senior bank clerk at Wiener Länderbank . After Austria's annexation in 1938, Klaar managed to flee to Ireland , his father and mother Ernestine ended up in France and were murdered in Auschwitz in 1942 , and grandmother Julie Klaar in the Theresienstadt ghetto . George Clare was a British soldier in World War II. After the end of the war he was deployed in occupied Berlin as an occupying soldier in denazification procedures . Clare received British citizenship in 1947.
Clare worked as a news editor and was director of the London office of Axel Springer Verlag from 1963 to 1983 . He wrote a family chronicle of his Jewish family in Vienna until their end in the Holocaust ; with the book he won the 1982 WH Smith Literary Award . Another autobiographical book describes the post-war period in Berlin. Clare received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland, Galway in 2005 .
Clare married his childhood friend Lisl Beck in Ireland in 1939, who had also escaped from Vienna; they had three children. After the death of his wife in 1965, he was married to Christel Vorbringer.
Fonts
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Last waltz in Vienna: The Destruction of a Family 1842–1942 . London: Macmillan, 1981 (also under the title Man always does )
- That was the Klaars: traces of a family . Translation: Gabriele Grunwald, Frank Hergün. Berlin: Ullstein, 1980 ISBN 978-3-550-06323-7 also under the title Last Waltz in Vienna: The story of a family until 1938
- Berlin days . London: Macmillan, 1989 ISBN 0-333-48345-6 also under the title Before the Wall: Berlin days 1946–1948
literature
- William D. Rubinstein, Michael Jolles, Hilary L. Rubinstein: The Palgrave dictionary of Anglo-Jewish history . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 ISBN 978-1-4039-3910-4 , p. 155
- Clare, George , in: Handbook of Austrian Authors of Jewish Origin, 18th to 20th Century , 2002, p. 201, entry # 1521
Web links
- Literature by and about George Clare in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about George Clare in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Eoin Bourke : Escaping the Holocaust to an Irish safe haven , in: The Irish Times, June 22, 2005
- Thomas Kielinger : George Clare, contemporary witness and publisher , Die Welt, March 31, 2009
- Christopher Hawtree: George Clare: Memoirist who recalled life in Nazi Vienna and postwar Berlin , in: The Independent, July 1, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Julie Klaar , in: Victims database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clare, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clare, George Peter (full name); Klaar, Georg Peter (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British journalist and author of Austrian origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 2009 |