HW Katz

HW Katz (actually Henry William Katz , born as Herz Wolff Katz in 1906 in Rudky , Austria-Hungary ; died June 7, 1992 in Florida , USA) was an Austro-American writer and journalist .

Life

Katz was a journalist for the Berlin newspaper Die Welt am Montag until 1933 . He witnessed the 1933 book burning in Germany on May 10, 1933 and the attacks against Jews and regime critics since the seizure of power . He first emigrated to France (arrival in Lyon on May 17, 1933). From 1939 to 1940 he was a soldier in the French army. In March 1941 he emigrated to the USA. He is considered an exile author . He was named "Fischmann's Katz" after his main work "Die Fischmanns" (The Fishmans). His estate is in the German Exile Archive 1933–1945. He used different spellings of his name, e.g. B. Willi Katz, Bill Katz, Guillaume Katz, Herz Wolff and the pseudonym Willibald Kater.

Works

• The Fischmanns . Amsterdam: Allert de Lange u. a. 1938.
• No. 21 Castle Street . New York: Viking Press, 1940
  • German Schlossgasse 21 , Frankfurt, Fischer paperback, 1986,

literature

• Ena Pedersen: Henry William Katz: The life and work of an German-jewish writer and journalist in exile, 1933–1945 . Oxford, 1998 (Oxford, Univ., Diss. 1998).
• 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 , p. 601
• Ena Pedersen: Katz, Henry William. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 267-269.

Web links

• Literature by and about HW Katz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Estate of HW Katz in the German Exile Archive of the German National Library