Peter Duhr
Peter Duhr , actually Camillo Harth , (born April 23, 1903 in Botoșani ; † December 19, 1984 in Berlin ) was a lawyer and German-speaking writer whose literary work is exclusively about experiences and impressions from the concentration camp .
Life
After studying political science, law and economics in Vienna , Duhr received his doctorate (1925) and began working there as a lawyer in 1930. After Romania sided with the National Socialists after the Second World War , Duhr was abducted from his native country, to which he later returned for personal and political reasons , to a concentration camp in Transnistria in the Ukraine . Duhr processed the experiences there literarily, u. a. in the poem Deportierte Juden (1944), which was written during this period and in which it says
- We moved out five hundred thousand. / Today / -five- out of a hundred are still alive.
One year before the end of the war, Duhr was liberated and lived in the USSR , the country of its liberators , until 1954 . Here he worked as a battery worker, auxiliary fitter, lathe operator, translator and reporter.
In 1954 he came with his partner, Ruth Benario, and their daughter Natascha, to Germany, to the German Democratic Republic, where he became prominent as a writer and also as a lawyer. His books Inferno (1956) and Apage satana (1958) collect narratives and reports about the time of the concentration camps and persecution of the Jews and dedicate them to the memory of the "nameless victims, (...) unknown heroes".
Duhr read selections from his literary works for the nationally owned speech record label Litera . For the production Lied der Stummen and other stories from Inferno , in which Ekkehard Schall , Hilmar Thate and Mathilde Dannegger also contributed as speakers, Duhr's texts were also set to music (partly also unpublished poems) by well-known composers such as Boris Blacher , Rudolf Wagner- Régeny and Paul Dessau .
Fonts
- Inferno (1956)
- Apage Satana (1958)
Discography
- From "Inferno"
- Song of the Mute and other stories from "Inferno"
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Duhr in the catalog of the German National Library
- Cover text Lied der Mutemen on www.ddr-Hörspiele net
- Diary pages from Chernivtsi and Transnistria [1]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | You, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harth, Camillo (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Botoșani (Romania) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th December 1984 |
| Place of death | Berlin |