Heinz Abosch

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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

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcements from the editorial team of the trade union monthly books , 1965, issue 10, p. 640 (PDF; 8 kB)
  2. ↑ Back to humility. By Ludger Heidbrink, in: "Die Zeit", 22/1993
  3. ↑ Heinz Abosch (obituary), in: "Die Zeit", 12/1997
personal data
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