Heinz Carwin

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Heinz Carwin (born Heinz Karpeles November 14, 1920 in Vienna ; died March 30, 2004 in Berlin ) was an Austrian writer.

Life

After Austria's annexation in 1938, Heinz Karpeles fled to England with his parents and worked as a chemist. He joined the cultural scene of Austrian emigrants in the Austrian Center in London. In 1940 he was interned as an enemy alien in the Sutton Coldfield camp near Birmingham for three months and began to write poetry and plays under the impression of imprisonment. Martin Miller recited at events of the Free German League of Culture in Great Britain in 1941 from the (lost) piece Juden , in 1943 from the piece Lilac . His poems appeared in German-language anthologies of the exiles during the war; his dramas remained unpublished.

After the end of the war, Carwin came to the US Army as a technical translator in occupied Germany in Hanau and Karlsruhe . He married Herta Schubart (1898–1975), who had also returned from emigration and who was now called Susanne Carwin . The marriage was divorced in 1959. Carwin's play Flieder was performed in 1946 in the Theater in der Josefstadt with Gertrud Ramlo . Carwin returned to Vienna and worked as a political editor for the tabloid Wiener Kurier . In 1952 he went to the stage publisher Felix Bloch Erben in West Berlin as chief dramaturge and lived there from then on. From 1962 he worked for some time as a television program director at the television production company RIVA in Munich and later in the private sector. He translated plays by Paul Ableman and Leonard Webb into German.

His play Grandmother Himmelreich was premiered in Ingolstadt in 1996 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Lilac , 1943
  • Grandmother Himmelreich , 1944
  • Neither good nor bad , 1947
  • Lilac. Grandmother Heaven. Neither good nor bad. Three plays from emigration . Berlin: Hentrich, 1993 ISBN 978-3-89468-069-5
  • Karlheinz Espe (pseudonym): Stories about Hannelore and other latest news . Berlin: Transit, 1992 ISBN 978-3-88747-077-7

literature

  • Karpeles, Heinz , in: Frithjof Trapp, Werner Mittenzwei, Henning Rischbieter, Hansjörg Schneider (Eds.): Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . DeGruyter Saur 1998. ISBN 978-3-110959-69-7 , p. 489
  • Carwin, Heinz , in: Handbook of Austrian Authors of Jewish Origin, 18th to 20th Century , Volume 1, Entry 1472, p. 195
  • German Literature Lexicon - the 20th Century , Volume 5, 2003, Sp. 136f.
  • Jörg Thunecke: The exile writer Heinz Carwin: an obituary , in: New newsletter from the Society for Exile Research e. V. No. 26, December 2005 ISSN 0946-1957, p. 8 PDF
  • Jörg Thunecke: "And where the synagogues burn, the cathedrals tremble in their foundations". Notes on cultural criticism on Heinz Carwin's tragic comedy Grandmother Himmelreich (1944) , in: Ian Wallace (Ed.): Aliens. German and Austrian Writers in Exile . Amsterdam 1995, ISBN 9789051837780 , pp. 195-206
  • Jörg Thunecke: “You are only guilty of doing what anyone could have done”: Heinz Carwin's double perspective of fascism, exile and the post-war period in the tragedy “Neither good nor bad” (1947). A contribution to coming to terms with the past , in: Charmian Brinson , Richard Dove , Marian Malet, Jennifer Taylor (eds.): “England? But where is it? ”German and Austrian emigrants in Great Britain 1933–1945 . Munich: Iudicium, 1996 ISBN 3-89129-263-5 , pp. 193-206

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ on Gertrud Ramlo see Julia Danielczyk: Gertrud Ramlo , in: Andreas Kotte: (Ed.): Theaterlexikon der Schweiz . Zurich: Chronos, 2005, Volume 3, pp. 1459–1460.
  2. ↑ Wilfried Passow : Late premiere in Ingolstadt: "Grandmother Heaven" by Heinz Carwin , short review, in: Theater der Zeit , 7/1996
personal data
SURNAME Carwin, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karpeles, Heinz (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2004
Place of death Berlin