Torkel S. Guardian

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Torkel S. Wächter (born March 25, 1961 in Stockholm , Sweden ) is a Swedish writer and artist of German descent.

Life

Wächter is the son of Walter Wächter , who fled Germany as a Jew in 1938. Torkel S. Wächter studied economic history, development theory and languages ​​at the universities in Lund , Melbourne and Barcelona , as well as architecture at the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm . Further studies took him to the Jewish University of Paideia .

Between 1986 and 1999 Wächter worked as a pilot for the Scandinavian airline SAS .

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His first novel Samson was published in 1997 by Natur och Kultur . His second novel, Ciona. En självbiologi was published by AlfabetaAnamma in 2002 and was nominated for the Swedish Literature Prize August Prize ( Augustpriset ) in the same year . Wächter has been a Swedish as well as a German citizen since 2006 .

32 postcards

For his literature and art project 32 Postkarten , he published 32 authentic postcards on the website 32postkarten.com , which were written in Hamburg in 1940/41 in the German script similar to Sütterlin and sent to Sweden - the last before the Holocaust . Exactly 70 years to the day after the first of these cards was written, Wächter put this postcard online on March 29, 2010. Since then, all other maps have also been published in “simulated real time” on the day they were dated - just 70 years later. Wächter had discovered the postcards in his father's estate in the attic of his parents' house. His grandparents wrote it in Sütterlin script and sent it to their son, who had fled to Sweden.

In March 2014 the book 32 Postkarten - Post aus Nazi-Deutschland was published.

The second part of this project was published in 2013. Here Wächter describes the first five months of the National Socialists in power and the effects this had on the life of the German-Jewish Wächter family of officials in Hamburg.

Works in German

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ p. 48
  2. ↑ Jewish General
  3. ↑ p. 14
  4. ↑ Marcus Boldemann: Kultur & Nöje: pseudonyms Tamara T är en man from December 3, 2002 (Swedish)
  5. ↑ Bokbörsen, accessed on November 11, 2010  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bokborsen.se  
  6. ↑ http://www.history.org.uk/resources/secondary_news_732.html , Historical Association May 22, 2010
  7. ↑ http://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/article/view/id/7545/highlight/Hamburg%22 , Jüdische Allgemeine June 3, 2010
  8. ↑ http://www.goethe.de/ges/pok/dos/dos/ern/kug/en6450636.htm , Goethe-Institut September 1, 2010
  9. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article117971954/Torkel-S-Waechters-Spurensuche-nach-80-Jahren.html , Hamburger Abendblatt July 12, 2013
  10. ↑ http://www.n-tv.de/politik/Gustav-Waechters-grosser-Kampf-article10021251.html , n-tv January 30, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Guardian, Torkel S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish writer and artist of German descent
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm , Sweden