Heinz Abosch
Heinz Abosch (born January 5, 1918 in Magdeburg ; † March 1, 1997 in Düsseldorf ) was a German - Jewish writer and journalist .
Life
In 1933, Heinz Abosch and his family fled from the National Socialists to France , where from 1935 he studied graphics and painting at the Strasbourg Art School . In 1936 he moved to Paris and in 1938 to Saint-Dié-des-Vosges . He became a member of the French Resistance in Grenoble and Lyon . Abosch was interned in 1939 and drafted into labor in 1940. He earned his living in 1941/42 as a construction and metal worker. In 1944 he was arrested by the Gestapo and transferred to the Lyon torture prison run by Klaus Barbie . He was able to escape from the deportation train that was supposed to take him from there to a concentration camp .
After the war, Abosch was the Paris correspondent for Neue Vorwärts , Die Quelle and other union newspapers. He also wrote for German-language weekly and daily newspapers such as Die Zeit and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . Articles by him have appeared in the following magazines, among others: Frankfurter Hefte , Die Voice der Gemeinde , Blätter für German and international politics , Werkhefte Katholischer Laien , Les Temps Modernes . Since the 1960s he lived as a freelance journalist in Düsseldorf .
Abosch turned against anti-Semitism , nationalism and any form of backwardness. At the same time, his criticism - particularly pronounced in his later years - was directed at exaggerated utopias ( Hegel , the Jacobins, and communist plans for the future ). In his 1993 book, The End of the Great Visions , he advocates a generally skeptical attitude and calls for “learning to be humble”, foregoing the fight for the golden calf “Production and Consumption” and for practicing “renouncing the doing and the feasible” . Instead, he was concerned with “gaining what is meaningful”. This was also to be understood as the resignation of a committed humanist and intellectual in the face of widespread political disorientation. The last sentence in Heinz Abosch's last - autobiographical - work with the title Escape without Homecoming reads: “In a world of unrest, home is only an abstraction”.
Fonts (selection)
Authorship
- L'Allemagne sans miracle: D'Hitler à Adenauer . Julliard, Paris 1960.
- Vietnam. 1. La guerra sin fin . Editorial ZYX, Madrid 1967.
- with Ernesto Galli della Loggia and Serena Dinelli: La Germania in movimento . Editori Laterza, Bari 1969.
- Anti-Semitism in Russia: An Analysis and Documentation on Soviet Anti-Semitism . Melzer, Darmstadt 1972, ISBN 3-7874-0030-3 .
- Trotsky Chronicle. Data on life and work. Hanser series, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-446-11788-1 .
- Trotsky and Bolshevism . edition etcetera, Basel 1975. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-548-35191-3 .
- Jean Jaurès . The vain hope , Piper, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-492-05209-6 .
- Trotsky as an introduction . Junius, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-88506-853-2 .
- Simone Weil for an introduction . Junius, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-88506-858-3 .
- The end of great visions: a plea for a skeptical culture. Junius, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-88506-216-X .
- Escape without returning home. From the life of a homeless person. Radius, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-87173-113-7 .
Translations and editions
- Simone Weil: Oppression and Freedom. Political Writings . Translated and with a foreword by Heinz Abosch. Rogner & Bernhard, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-8077-0033-1 .
- Simone Weil: Factory diary and other writings on the industrial system . Translated by Heinz Abosch. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / Main 1978, ISBN 3-518-10940-5 .
- as editor: The Israeli-Arab conflict. Analyzes by leading Arab and Israeli historians, religious scholars, politicians and journalists. A documentation. With an introduction by the editor and a suburb by Jean-Paul Sartre . Melzer, Darmstadt 1969.
- André Gorz : Farewell to the proletariat: Beyond socialism . Translated from the French by Heinz Abosch, Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt / Main 1980, ISBN 3-434-00437-8 .
literature
- Heinz Abosch (obituary) . In: The time . 12th edition, March 14, 1997.
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinz Abosch in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Announcements from the editorial team of the trade union monthly books , 1965, issue 10, p. 640 (PDF; 8 kB)
- ↑ Back to humility. By Ludger Heidbrink, in: "Die Zeit", 22/1993
- ↑ Heinz Abosch (obituary), in: "Die Zeit", 12/1997
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SURNAME | Abosch, Heinz |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, journalist and editor |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1918 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1997 |
Place of death | Dusseldorf |