Roman Frister
Roman Frister (born January 17, 1928 in Bielitz , Poland ; † February 9, 2015 in Warsaw ) was a Polish-Israeli journalist and writer .
Life
Frister was born into a German-speaking Jewish family of lawyers, with whom he had a happy childhood until 1939. With the beginning of the Second World War , the family began to flee from the National Socialists .
At the age of 13, Frister was arrested with his parents in Krakow . There his mother was murdered by SS man Wilhelm Kunde. He suffered from the Starachowice concentration camps , where his father died of typhus , then Auschwitz and Mauthausen, and survived death marches . When he was liberated, he suffered from malnutrition and tuberculosis . He worked as a journalist in Poland until he emigrated to Israel in 1957 .
He also worked as a journalist and writer in Israel. In 1990 he took over the management of the Koteret Journalism School in Tel Aviv . Frister wrote novels , non-fiction books, and plays . His autobiography Die Mütze or The Price of Life caused a sensation with its relentless openness, as it particularly depicts the dark soul of the victims.
Works (selection)
- The cap or the price of life. A life story. Siedler, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-88680-606-5 .
- als Siedler Taschenbuch: Munich 1998, ISBN 3-442-75536-0 .
- Ascher Levy's longing for Germany. Siedler, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-88680-634-8 .
- The stolen identity. The second life of Itzhak Liebmann. BTV, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-442-76138-8 .
literature
- Jürgen Hogrefe: Holocaust: Execution of the Soul . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1997, pp. 172–174 ( online review Die Mütze or The Price of Life ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Roman Frister in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Roman Frister at perlentaucher.de
- Roman Frister: Meeting on the platform. In: haGalil.com . (Excerpt from text).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frister, Roman |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-Israeli journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bielsko-Biała |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 2015 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |