Roberto Schopflocher

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Roberto Schopflocher (born as Robert Schopflocher , April 14, 1923 in Fürth ; died January 23, 2016 in Buenos Aires ) was a German- Argentinian writer .

Life

Robert Schopflocher comes from a German Jewish family. In 1937 he and his parents had to emigrate to Argentina. After studying agronomy in Córdoba , he worked as an administrator in various Baron Hirsch settlements of the Jewish Colonization Association in Argentina. During this time he wrote a number of non-fiction books on agricultural subjects in Spanish (e.g. a book on chicken farming that was sold 50,000 times). From 1951 he worked as an import merchant in Buenos Aires.

Since the 1980s he has worked for various magazines in Argentina and the USA . It was then that he also began writing novels and short stories in Spanish . Since the late 1990s, publications in his German mother tongue followed . His narratives are "in their laconic nature more reminiscent of a Chekhov who has been transferred to the Argentine province than of conventional émigré prose, which usually remains in one's own milieu."

Roberto Schopflocher lived in Buenos Aires until his death. He was a member of the Argentine writers' association “ Sociedad Argentina de Escritores (SADE)” and an honorary member of the PEN center for German-speaking authors abroad . He has received several awards for his works in Spanish, including the 3rd Literature Prize of the City of Buenos Aires in 2000. In 2008 he was awarded the Jakob-Wassermann Literature Prize of the city of Fürth for his German-language work .

Works

Non-fiction books in Spanish

  • Historia de la colonización agrícola en Argentina. Buenos Aires 1955.
  • Enciclopedia agropecuaria práctica. Buenos Aires.
    • 1 (1963)
    • 2 (1967)
  • Apicultura lucrativa. Buenos Aires 1973 (together with Eduardo del Pozo).
  • Las enfermedades de los vacunos. Buenos Aires 1982.
  • Avicultura lucrativa. Buenos Aires 1989.

Fiction works in Spanish

  • Fuego fatuo. Buenos Aires 1980.
  • Ventana abierta. Buenos Aires 1983.
  • Acorralado. Buenos Aires 1984.
  • Las ovejas. Buenos Aires 1984.
  • Mundo frágil. Buenos Aires 1986.
  • Venus llega al pueblo. Buenos Aires 1986.
  • Extraños negocios. Buenos Aires 1996.

Fiction works in German

  • A childhood. Goettingen 1998.
  • How Reb Froike saved the world. Goettingen 1998.
  • Adopted home and choice of home. Fuerth 2002.
  • Distant quake. Frankfurt am Main 2003.
  • Mirror of the world. Huerth 2006.
  • The caudillo. Buenos-Aires 2009.
  • Far from where. Life between three worlds. Langen Müller, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7844-3236-6 .
  • The seat of the soul. Buenos-Aires 2011.
  • Ulterior motives. Poems from two decades with 3 woodcuts by the author. Spätlese Verlag, Nuremberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-924461-26-3 .
  • The lost children. Langen-Müller, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7844-3323-3 .
  • with Rainer Traub (ed.): “We want to turn the curse into a blessing”: Three generations of the Jewish Neumeyer family; an autobiographical trilogy. Alfred Neumeyer; Alexander Karl Neumeyer; Imanuel Noy-Meir. Metropol, Berlin 2007 - The German lawyer Alfred Neumeyer , his son and grandson.
  • The Lima plot. Novel. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-627-00221-3 .

literature

  • Marko Martin : From the shtetl in the pampas. The writer Robert Schopflocher. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. July, 1st 2013.
  • Marko Martin: Marin Buber and the Jewish Gauchos - Robert Schopflocher . In: ders .: Dissidentical thinking. Travel to the witnesses of an age . The Other Library, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-8477-0415-7 , pp. 402-425.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roberto Schopflocher
  2. ↑ Uwe Stolzmann: The large cemetery on the Río de la Plata. Circling around the empty center - Argentine writers and artists remember the time of the dictatorship . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 2, 2010.
  3. ↑ localidad "Mauricio Hirsch" see it: Mauricio Hirsch (Buenos Aires)
  4. ↑ Marko Martin: From the shtetl in the pampas. The writer Robert Schopflocher. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. July, 1st 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Schopflocher, Roberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schopflocher, Robert (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Argentine writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2016
Place of death Buenos Aires