Heinrich Christian Graf zu Rantzau

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Heinrich Christian Graf zu Rantzau (born January 9, 1922 in Hamburg ; † June 7, 2001 ) was a German writer , translator , interpreter and - since 1976 - also a forester .

Life

Heinrich Rantzau grew up in Altona , attended the Christianeum and from 1938 on the Arndt-Gymnasium in Berlin-Dahlem . At the age of 19 he was drafted into military service in 1941 and served in the horse artillery in Küstrin . Until the end of the Second World War he was in action on the Eastern Front and was captured near Königsberg in 1944 .

After almost five years of Soviet imprisonment in Morschansk and Zaporozhye , he returned to Altona in 1950.

A year later he emigrated to Mexico . There he became an industrial clerk , married Erika Honsberg in 1952 and also took on Mexican citizenship . As an industrial clerk, he traveled to most of America's countries as well as Australia.

In 1976 he returned to Germany to inherit his family in Schleswig-Holstein .

Works

  • Flashing light shield. Poems of captivity . 1960
  • Twenty-two times. Conversations between a Mexican and a German . 1976
  • The robin was to blame. Narratives . Stade, Kiel 1980, ISBN 3-922824-00-5
  • Laughing beasts . Stade, Kiel 1985, ISBN 3-922824-01-3
  • There is always sun. Tonatiuh's Mexico . Arena, Würzburg 1988, ISBN 3-401-04245-9
  • Toads for the baptism of fire. An autobiography in short stories . Fouqué-Literaturverlage, Egelsbach [ua] 1998, ISBN 3-8267-4157-9 (Part 1: 1922–1951)
  • The twelve fat years in Mexico. Memoirs of Fouqué-Literaturverlage, Egelsbach [ua] 2000, ISBN 3-8267-4660-0 (Part 2: 1952–1964)

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personal data
SURNAME Rantzau, Heinrich Christian Graf too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rantzau, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, translator, interpreter and forester
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 2001