Ulrich A. Boschwitz

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Stumbling block at Hohenzollerndamm 81 in Berlin-Schmargendorf

Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz , pseudonym John Grane (born April 19, 1915 in Berlin ; died October 29, 1942 ), was a German writer .

Life

Boschwitz was born in 1915 as the son of a Jewish businessman who died as a soldier in World War I that same year. His mother Martha Wolgast Boschwitz came from a Lübeck senatorial family. Boschwitz received a strictly Protestant upbringing from his mother.

During the National Socialist era , Boschwitz emigrated to Sweden with his mother in 1935 when he received the draft order from the Wehrmacht ; his sister had fled in 1933. From Sweden he moved on to Norway and in 1936 to France. In 1937/38 he stayed in Luxembourg, where he was expelled by the police and moved to Belgium. From there he and his mother went on to England in 1939. After the outbreak of war, they were interned as "enemy aliens" in a camp on the Isle of Man . After the British government decided to deport all male internees overseas, he was shipped to Sydney on the HMT Dunera in the summer of 1940 . From there he was taken to a camp in Hay in New South Wales, together with Peter Stadlen and Albin Stübs , among others . On his return trip to England in 1942 he was on the MV Abosso , which was torpedoed in the Atlantic by the German submarine U 575 and sank . Boschwitz died at the age of 27, and his last manuscript probably sank with him.

His novel People Beside Life was published in a Swedish translation in 1937 ( Människor utanför ). His second book The Traveler appeared under the pseudonym John Grane in 1939 in London in English, The man who took trains , and in 1940 the same version in the USA under the title The fugitive . A posthumous edition in translation by Maurice Rémon appeared in France in 1945 under the title Le fugitif .

Of his two books, the first novel The Traveler was published in the German original language in 2018 ; The debut novel People Beside Life also followed in 2019 .

On July 13, 2019 , stumbling blocks for him and his family were laid at his former place of residence in Berlin-Schmargendorf , Hohenzollerndamm 81 .

Novels

  • People next to life , published by Peter Graf, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-608-96409-7 .
    • John Grane: Männniskor utanför . Bonnier, Stockholm 1937
    • John Grane: Männniskor utanför . Audio book. Speaker Bo Green. TPB, Enskede 2004 (1 CD; 9 h 26 min.)
  • The Traveler , edited by Peter Graf, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-608-98123-0 .
    • John Grane: The man who took trains , from the German by Trevor & Phyllis Blewitt. Hamilton, London 1939
    • John Grane: Le fugitif . Translation of Maurice Rémon. Michel, Paris 1945
    • Ulrich A. Boschwitz: De Reiziger . Translation by Izaak Hilhorst, Irene Dirkes. Lebowski, Amsterdam 2018
    • In 2019/20 the book was translated into eight languages on behalf of the Goethe Institute .

literature

  • Wilhelm Sternfeld , Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933-1945. A bio bibliography . Foreword by Hanns Wilhelm Eppelsheimer , Schneider, Heidelberg / Darmstadt 1962, p. 36
  • Mechthild Hahner (Red.): German Exile Archive 1933–1945. Catalog of books and brochures . Stuttgart: Metzler, 1989 ISBN 3-476-00657-3 , p. 197
  • Martin Doerry : In the wrong place at the wrong time. In: Der Spiegel 6/2018, p. 116ff

Web links

Commons : Ulrich A. Boschwitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alex Rühle : There are so many trains . In: sueddeutsche.de . February 13, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 , p. 12 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on February 14, 2018] there is also a photograph).
  2. ↑ Stock list of the "Hay Internment Camp"
  3. ^ Leo Baeck Institute Ulrich Boschwitz Collection AR 25553
  4. ^ Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz at the Klett-Cotta publishing house
  5. ↑ The book cover is available on the Internet, but it is copyright problematic as long as the graphic designer is unknown.
  6. ↑ Andrej Klahn: The long, difficult birth of a literary pain child , Deutschlandfunk, February 13, 2018
  7. ↑ Yearbook 2019/20 of the Goethe Institute, p. 48
personal data
SURNAME Boschwitz, Ulrich A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander (full name); Grane, John (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1942