Robert Lindenbaum

Robert Lindenbaum (born January 5, 1898 in Komotau , Bohemia , † September 24, 1979 in Bayreuth ) was a Sudeten German writer.

Life

Robert Lindenbaum's father came from Styria , his mother from the Komotau foreland. He attended schools in Komotau and Brüx and then became a businessman.

He moved to Zieditz via Prague and Leipzig , since from 1935 to 1945 he was the commercial director of one of the largest coal mining companies in the Egerland in Falkenau an der Eger . During this time he wrote his first novels and poems, which mainly dealt with the life of miners and farmers in his adopted home in Egerland and reflect the style of his role model Knut Hamsun . After the end of the war he was in Soviet captivity in Czechoslovakia until his escape in 1948 . After two years in Arzberg , he settled in Bayreuth in 1950 and devoted himself mainly to writing.

Lindenbaum died in a nursing home in the Bayreuth district of Laineck . His grave was in the cemetery in the St. Georgen district and has already been closed.

Awards

• 1933: Prize from the Kaňka Foundation
• 1939: Sudeten German Literature Prize from the German Cultural Association
• 1940: Gau culture prize of the Reichsgau Sudetenland
• 1960: Nordgau Culture Prize of the City of Amberg in the " Poetry " category
• 1963: Sudeten German sponsorship award
• 1978: Culture Prize of the City of Bayreuth

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Lindenbaum in the catalog of the German National Library
• JK:  Lindenbaum, Robert . Entry in the database of the Oberpfälzer Kulturbund (currently not available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robert Lindenbaum: In Hamsun's footsteps - more rooted in home than ever  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  From Sepp Seifert: Komotauer in the flow of time . Komotauer Zeitung, Ingolstadt, 1977.