Ladislaus Löb
Ladislaus Lob (* 8. May 1933 in Cluj-Napoca ) is a Swiss German scholar, emeritus professor of German studies and survivor of the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen . He lives in Brighton .
Life
Löb spent his first ten years in the small Transylvanian town of Margitta as the only child of the merchant Izsó Löb; his mother, Jolán b. Rosenberg, died of tuberculosis in 1942. In May 1944, Löb and all his relatives were ghettoized in Klausenburg , but fled to Budapest with his father and joined the "Kasztner Group". The almost 1700 people were supposed to leave for Palestine on the basis of a deal between Adolf Eichmann and the Jewish Zionist leader Rezső Kasztner , but were detained in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp for five months before Eichmann released them to Switzerland in December 1944.
In Switzerland , Löb spent two years at the Ecole d'Humanité , attended the Realgymnasium Zurich from 1948 and studied English and German at the University of Zurich from 1953 to 1961 .
In 1963 he accepted a position at the University of Sussex in Brighton. He taught German language and literature as well as comparative literature. He was visiting professor at the University of Konstanz and Middlebury College . Before his retirement in 1993, he mainly published works in literature; since then he has concentrated on translations from German or Hungarian. His autobiographical-historical book about his experience of the Holocaust and the fate of Rezső Kasztner was published in six languages.
Awards
Fonts (selection)
Monographs
- People and society at JB Priestley (= Swiss English Studies. Vol. 53). Francke, Bern 1962 (= dissertation , University of Zurich, 1962).
- From Lessing to Hauptmann: Studies in German Drama. University Tutorial Press, London 1974.
- Christian Dietrich Grabbe . Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-476-10294-7 .
- Business with the Devil: The Tragedy of the Savior of the Jews Rezső Kasztner . Report from a survivor. Böhlau, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20389-4 .
Translations
- Krisztián Ungváry : Battle for Budapest 1944–1945 (London 2002)
- Otto Weininger : Sex and Character (London 2003)
- Béla Zsolt : Nine Suitcases (London 2005)
- Friedrich Nietzsche : Writings from the Early Notebooks (Cambridge 2009)
additional
- Many contributions to collections of scientific articles, magazines and newspapers
Web links
- Literature by and about Ladislaus Löb in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Ladislaus Löb at perlentaucher.de
- Andreas Speit : Ghetto survivor Ladislaus Löb: "He played poker to save lives" , interview, taz.de , January 6, 2012
- Jochen Thermann: Triumphant and tragic , video interview at the 3rd International Conference on Holocaust Research, January 27, 2011
Individual evidence
- ^ Image description of the mirror , accessed on March 4, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Löb, Ladislaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss Germanist, Holocaust survivor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cluj-Napoca |