Heinrich Christian Graf zu Rantzau
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)
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Christian Graf zu Rantzau in the catalog of the German National Library
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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 |