Ivan Pfaff
Ivan Pfaff (born June 6, 1925 in Czechoslovakia ; died June 28, 2014 in Heidelberg ) was a Czech-German writer and historian who lived in Germany for a long time.
In the 1960s, he wrote, among other things, in the renowned magazine Literární noviny . In 1967 he was involved in the manifesto of the Czechoslovak writers to the world public , possibly even on his initiative. He was arrested in early November 1967 but was released five months later. The following year he supported the Prague Spring and fled to Switzerland in October 1968 . He worked for the exile magazines Listy and Svědectví .
In his home country, he was sentenced to another prison term in absentia. From 1992 he lived in Heidelberg.
Publications
- Stalin's strategy of the Sovietization of Central Europe 1935–1938. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 38, issue 4 (1990), p. 560, link to the PDF file
- Prague and the Tukhachevsky case. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 35 (1987), pp. 95-134; Link to the PDF file
- Stalin and the Czech Left Culture - The Campaign against Formalism in Art 1936–1938 . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 3/1988; Link to the PDF file
- The modalities of the defense of Czechoslovakia in 1938 without allies . In: Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift 57 (1998), pp. 23–77.
- The Soviet Union and the Defense of Czechoslovakia 1934–1938. Attempt to revise a legend . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-412-15493-8 .
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Ivan Pfaff in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Article by Ivan Pfaff in "Die Zeit"
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Isabelle Daniel: Autumn before spring. In: Prague Newspaper. March 6, 2012, accessed February 28, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfaff, Ivan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Czech historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Czechoslovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 2014 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |