Kurt Bauchwitz
Kurt Bauchwitz (born July 12, 1890 in Halle, Saale , † July 18, 1974 in Milton , Massachusetts ) was a lawyer, essayist, poet, satirist and aphorist with original puns. He was the son of Jewish parents, but was baptized as a Catholic .
Life
Kurt Bauchwitz studied law in Halle, Munich , Grenoble and Berlin and worked as a lawyer in Berlin before leaving Germany. In 1939 he emigrated to Japan (there he took the name Roy C. Bates) and in 1940 to the United States. In America he campaigned, among other things, to obtain compensation for property confiscated during the Nazi era , and was also a representative of the Mann family's community of heirs .
Among other things, he wrote Der Lebendige (1920) and Heim-Findungen. An emigrant's book of life (posthumous).
Web links
- Literature by and about Kurt Bauchwitz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Two poets, close together in Halle - K. Bauchwitz and E. Hilsenrath , contribution to the history of the city in the Kulturfalter , in July / August 2012
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| SURNAME | Bauchwitz, Kurt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bates, Roy C. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 1974 |
| Place of death | Milton , Massachusetts , United States |