John Gaitanides

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Johannes Gaitanides (also Hans Gaitanides ; * 1909 in Dresden , † 1988 in Schondorf am Ammersee ) was a Greek - German writer and publicist.

Life

Gaitanides was the son of a Greek father and a German mother. He studied German literature , history and geography at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received his doctorate in 1936 .

There are various accounts of his work in World War II : While he himself reported working in the publishing industry and in the historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and even emigrating to Greece for political reasons, others see his participation in the war as a war correspondent and special leader of the Waffen SS . In his 1940 published work New Greece Gaitanides wrote: ". ... in Greece there is no Jewish question, only during the Turkish occupation Jews have had a significant position, its danger is still limited by their low international Versippung" in the Soviet zone of occupation , the work was on the list of literature to be discarded is set.

After the war, Gaitanides called himself Johannes (instead of the short form Hans ). He began to write as a freelance journalist for various newspapers and as a political commentator for Bayerischer Rundfunk . In the 1970s he was a senior editor at Donaukurier in Ingolstadt .

Gaitanides gained importance with his numerous publications about Greece, which he traveled regularly. Just as the works of Jacques Lacarrière shaped the image of Greece for the French-speaking audience, Gaitanides' works were important for the German-speaking audience. His book Greece without Pillars , which tells the history of Greece in modern times , was considered a standard work. His works have been translated into many languages ​​(English, Dutch, etc.).

In 1964 Gaitanides was awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize . He died in 1988 in his home town of Schondorf am Ammersee .

His son Thomas Gaitanides also became an editor at Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Works

Books about Greece

  • New Greece. Stollberg, Berlin 1940.
  • Greeks (= dealing with peoples. Vol. 2). Luken & Luken, Berlin 1943.
  • Greece without pillars. List, Munich 1955, ISBN 3-471-77656-7 ; revised and expanded edition. Munich 1978, ISBN 3-471-77615-X .
  • Chapter Greece. In: You live differently somewhere else. Illustrated by Hans Georg Lenzen . Praesentverlag Heinz Peter, Gütersloh 1962.
  • Aegean Islands - Sisters of Aphrodite. List, Munich 1962.
  • with Fritz Funk: Greek mainland. Thiemig, Munich 1965.
  • with Fritz Funk: Greek Islands. Thiemig, Munich 1966.
  • with Rudolf Schneider-Manns Au: Dream trips through the Aegean Sea. Molden, Vienna 1971.
  • with Susanne I. Worm: Aegean Trio. Crete, Rhodes, Cyprus. List, Munich 1974
  • The archipelago of the Greeks. Landscape and people of the Aegean. Molden, Vienna 1979; revised and provided with an afterword by Thomas Gaitanides . Frederking and Thaler, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89405-227-9 .
  • Greek too Greek. Mediterranean essays. Molden, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-88919-001-4
  • with Doris Christidis: From Greek kitchens. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-13206-1 .

Further publications

  • Attempt of a physiognomic style analysis (dissertation on the poet Georg Rodolf Weckherlin ), Munich, 1936.
  • (Ed.) Oclla, the girl with the petrified eyes. A story of the Indians, told by the gaucho Pablo Ché. Written down by Karl Herb. Schauer, Frankfurt am Main 1948.
  • Passion for Europe. Variations on an almost conservative theme. Vorwerk, Stuttgart 1956.
  • Europe: Lucifer among cultures. An essai. In: From politics and current affairs , supplement to the weekly newspaper Das Parlament . 1956.
  • The last bridge. Splendor and misery of the United Nations. In: Sunday paper . 1958.
  • A Word on the Impotence of German Literature. In: Walter Stahl (Ed.): Education for democracy in West Germany. Achievements, shortcomings, prospects. Praeger, New York 1961.
  • The future of communism. List, Munich 1963.

Broadcasts on Bavarian radio

  • Art and criticism. Why not rent pictures? Johannes Gaitanides to alleviate the suffering of artists. March 20, 1950.
  • Wednesday comment. August 16, 1950.
  • Books from Greece. 22nd August 1950.

Magazines

  • Hellenika . Journal for German-Greek cultural and economic cooperation, edited by Gaitanides from 1964.
  • with Gustav Faber and Kostas Montis : Cyprus (= Merian . Vol. 23, H. 10). Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1970.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Gaitanides: Greece without columns. Revised and expanded edition. Munich 1978, p. 315
  2. ↑ Andrea Reiter: The extraterritoriality of thinking: Hans Sahl in exile. Göttingen 2007, p. 258, fn. 151 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  3. ^ Nico Ewers: Jewish Exile in Greece and Cyprus 1936–1941 . In: The future needs memories . October 29, 2004
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-g.html
  5. ↑ In this publication Johannes Gaitanides met other authors and photographers from the field of SS war reporters , e. B. Jan Herchenröder , Gerhard Brehmer.
  6. ↑ Sebastian Lindmeyr: finding aid fees and licenses. Bayerischer Rundfunk Historical Archive, August 1, 2006 ( http://www.br-online.de/br-intern/geschichte/pdf/Findbuch-HoLi.pdf ( Memento from October 19, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) ).
personal data
SURNAME Gaitanides, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaitanides, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek-German writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 1988
Place of death Schondorf am Ammersee