Harry Graeber
Harry Graeber (* 1951 in Nuremberg ) is a German writer.
Life
Graeber's parents and his older siblings had fled Gdansk in 1945 before the approach of the Red Army (they only survived because they could no longer find a place on the Wilhelm Gustloff ) and had to go to Germany (first in the Federal Republic of Germany , later in the GDR , then back in the Federal Republic) to get through the already difficult, but for refugees even harder misery of the post-war period . The father was injured in the war, so that the mother had to provide for the maintenance and upbringing of the eight children alone. The youth welfare office then forced the children to be sent to homes , where they were subject to a draconian upbringing style until the end of the 1960s. The family was separated in this way with bureaucratic severity.
In his autobiographical short story Misshandelte Zukunft , Harry Graeber has worked through the experiences and uprooting of his family in post-war Germany and, using the example of his family's fate, provides an insight into the far too little-known precarious situation of refugees in Germany in the 1950s and 1960s and the continuity of authoritarianism Ways of thinking and behaving.
In the Bavarian Radio ( Bayern2Radio ) a one-hour radio story was aired twice (Audiobook see below).
Graeber works today as a wedding speaker and independent supervisor for the disabled and sick. He lives in Markt Erlbach .
Works
- Abused Future 2001, ISBN 3-937624-60-0
- 2nd edition: Abused Future - Shocking report of the experience of a child in a home in post-war Germany 2006, ISBN 3-937624-61-9
- Audiobook Misshandelte Zukunft - Shocking report of a child's experience in post-war Germany 2006, ISBN 3-937624-62-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Harry Graeber in the catalog of the German National Library
- The homepage of Abused Future
- Information about the book and audio book
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harry Graeber on the Marry & more website ( memento of the original from February 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Graeber, Harry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |