Richard von Schirach

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Richard von Schirach, 2017

Richard von Schirach (born February 11, 1942 in Munich ) is a German author and doctor of sinologist .

Life

He is the fourth and youngest child of the National Socialist Reich Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach with Henriette von Schirach and has a sister (Angelika) and two brothers (Klaus and Robert). After boarding school and high school at the then high school in Ansbach , he studied in Munich .

Richard von Schirach did not know his father before he was arrested. He received over a thousand letters from him from prison in Spandau , in which, however, due to the strict censorship, one was not allowed to write about his father's past or any other political or contemporary issues. He was allowed to visit his father a few times in the Spandau military prison under strict guidelines (e.g. no physical contact was allowed). After his father was released in 1966, Schirach did not find the debate he had longed for. In 2005 he wrote down his childhood up to student days in the “shadow of his father” as a Nazi child in the post-war period in an autobiographical book.

Ernst Piper wrote about the book: “Schirach describes his childhood and youth, the time when the father was absent and often the mother too, a time full of changes and not without financial worries. It is a book of remarkable observation and wisdom, brilliantly written, an autobiography of literary rank. "

In 2012 Schirach's non-fiction book Die Nacht der Physiker was published .

Schirach was married and has two children. His daughter Ariadne von Schirach (* 1978) became known through her books . His son (* 1984) took the name Benedict Wells and is also a writer.

Works

  • Pu Yi : I was Emperor of China: From Heavenly Son to New Man. Edited and translated from Chinese by Richard von Schirach and Mulan Lehner. Hanser, Munich 1973.
  • Hsü Chih-mo and the Hsin-yüeh Society: A Contribution to China's New Literature. Dissertation, University of Munich, 1974.
  • My father's shadow. Hanser, Munich, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-446-20669-8
  • The night of the physicists: Heisenberg, Hahn, Weizsäcker and the German bomb. Berenberg, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-937834-54-2 ; as a paperback Rowohlt, Reinbek 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-61642-6 .
  • The man who weighed the earth , Bertelsmann, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-570-10258-9

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Piper : The terrible family . ( Memento from May 24, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 7, 2005.
  2. ↑ Uwe Stolzmann: How the atom bomb almost came about . Deutschlandradio Kultur , November 29, 2012; Review; accessed March 11, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Schirach, Richard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich