Peter Ambros

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Peter Ambros (born October 22, 1948 in Trnava , Czechoslovakia ; † January 5, 2018 in Bratislava , Slovak Republic ) was a Slovak-German writer, historian and translator of Jewish origin.

Life

Ambros studied sociology , history and Jewish studies in Bratislava , Jerusalem and Berlin . In 1968, after the suppression of the Prague Spring , Ambros emigrated and lived in Israel, Canada, Germany, after 1990 in Czechoslovakia (in Prague), again in Germany and finally in Bratislava in Slovakia. 1983–1985 Ambros was on a study visit to Toronto . Afterwards, as a close associate of Heinz Galinski, he was responsible for the press and public relations work of the Jewish community in Berlin and was H. Galinski's personal press spokesman. In April 1999 he became a technical director at the Jewish Museum in Prague , where he worked until June 2001. He then moved to Chemnitz in Saxony , where in 2002 he became an advisor to the Lord Mayor Peter Seifert and deputy chairman of the Chemnitz Jewish community Siegmund Rotstein .

As a freelance journalist, Peter Ambros published in newspapers and magazines (including FAZ , Die Zeit , Der Tagesspiegel , Berliner Zeitung , Die Tageszeitung , Financial Times Deutschland and in Freitag ). He delivered radio broadcasts for the broadcaster Free Berlin , for RIAS , the Bavarian radio , for the Deutschlandfunk and the Deutsche Welle . For the Jewish Culture Days 1992 in Berlin, he organized a festival of contemporary Jewish literature from Eastern Europe, which was documented in the special volume ex oriente of the literary magazine Sirene . One of Peter Ambros' most successful works is the translation of Scholem Alejchems Tewje der milchiker - the literary model for the world-famous musical Anatevka . His reading of the multi-part work Der Milchmann Tewje appeared on 8 CDs in 2008.

Since November 2012 Peter Ambros has been living in Bratislava again as a freelance writer, pensioner and doctoral student in the field of literature at the Philosophical Faculty of the Komenius University . He was a member of the PEN center for German-speaking authors abroad .

Peter Ambros was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Trnava.

Works

Books (selection)

  • Life played by sight. A dramatic life score (= reader ... Judaism in Central Europe. Volume 2). Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2003, ISBN 3-935712-21-9 .
  • Final concert. Novel. Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2004, ISBN 3-935712-85-5 .
  • The verbose German silence (= Ariadne literature library ). Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-88619-492-6 .

Sound carrier

  • The milkman Tewje, read by Peter Ambros, translated from Yiddish into German by Peter Ambros (multi-part work). Anatewka-Hör- & Buch-Verlag, Chemnitz 2008.

Translations and editions (selection)

  • Literature from Jewish Eastern Europe Today (edited). Babel-Verlag Hund and Toker, Berlin 1992.
  • Darkness casts no shadows by Arnošt Lustig (translated into German). Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 1994; dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 1997 (unabridged edition).
  • Minimax by Vlastimil Třešňák (translated into German). Vitalis Publishing House, Prague 1997.
  • The rehearsal by Arnošt Goldflam (translated into German together with Wolf Spitzbardt). Větrné Mlýny literary publisher, Brno 1999.
  • Golem's light breath. Contemporary Jewish authors from Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia (translated into German and edited). Gollenstein, Blieskastel 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Za Peterem Ambrosem. Report in Věstník 2/2018 (see Roš Chodeš ), periodical of the Jewish communities in the Czech Republic, p. 26, online at: fzo.cz / ...
  2. ↑ a b c Peter Ambros , biography of the PEN center of German-speaking authors abroad, online at: blog.pen-zentrum-ausland.de / ...
  3. ↑ Ch. Hamann-Pönisch: 'Der Milchmann Tewje' vom Chemnitzer Kaßberg , Sächsische Zeitung January 14, 2009, online at: sz-online.de / ...
  4. ↑ Peter Ambros 1948 - 2017 , in: Verlag Artforum, Bratislava (among others), online at: vydavatelstvoartforum.sk ...

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personal data
SURNAME Ambros, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak-German writer, historian and translator of Jewish origin
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Trnava , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 2018
Place of death Bratislava , Slovak Republic