Ossip Kalenter

Ossip Kalenter , also Ozzip (actually Johannes Burckhardt ; born November 15, 1900 in Dresden , † January 14, 1976 in Zurich ) was a German writer .

Life

The writer was born in Dresden as the son of a businessman under the name Johannes Burckhardt. In 1920 he published his first poems and took the stage name Ossip Kalenter, under which he published from that time. Soon afterwards he left his hometown and lived in different places. From 1924 to 1934 he worked as a freelance journalist in Italy, from 1934 to 1939 he was editor of the Prager Tagblatt in Prague . After the occupation of Prague, he fled to Switzerland and lived in Zurich until his death. From 1957 to 1967 he was chairman of the PEN center for German-speaking authors abroad .

Works (selection)

Poetry

• The rhyming year. Poems for children . Classen Verlag, Stuttgart 1953.
• Autumn punching . Poeschel & Trepte, Leipzig 1922.
• The idylls around Sylph . Steegemann Verlag, Hanover 1922 (The Silver Column; 153).
• Sanatorium . Dresdner Verlag, Dresden 1922 (The newest poem; 44).
• The Serious Walk: Thirty-Three Poems . Kaemmerer publishing house, Dresden 1920.

prose

• The Abetines or happiness and splendor of a small Mediterranean town . Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1959 (reprint of the Zurich 1950 edition).
• A successful evening. Funny stories . Classen Verlag, Stuttgart 1955.
• The golden Dresden. An arabesque . Steegemann Verlag, Leipzig 1923 (The Silver Column; 152).
• The love affairs of Colombina. 5 chapters from the life of the famous sweet lady along with Arlecchino's jokes and Pantalone's horns . Classen Verlag, Stuttgart 1957.
• Olive country. Italy miniatures . Classen Verlag, Stuttgart 1960.
• Rendez-vous at midnight: strange love stories . Classen Verlag, Stuttgart 1958.

Translations

• Léon Gozlan : Balzac intimate. Memories of a contemporary (“Balzac en pantouffles”). Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-257-23663-7 (reprint of the Hanover 1922 edition).
• Curt Riess : George 9-4-3-3. A spy novel from World War II ("George 9-4-3-3"). Europa-Verlag, Zurich 1946.
• RC Sherriff : The other year. Roman ("Another Year"). Fretz & Wasmuth, Zurich 1949.
• Evelyn Waugh : Vacation from Europe. Roman ("Scott Kings modern Europe"). Stiasny Verlag, Graz 1950.

literature

• Franz Menges:  Kalenter, Ossip. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 56 ( digitized version ).
• Norbert Weiß (Ed.): Ossip Kalenter on the 100th birthday. The serious stroller; Arabesques . Verlag Die Scheune, Dresden 2000 (Signum / special issue; 2).

Web links

• Literature by and about Ossip Kalenter in the catalog of the German National Library