American biography

Jean America Jean America. Jean America, actually Hans [Chaim] Mayer, German. Hans Mayer; October 31, Vienna-October 17, Salzburg-an Austrian writer, journalist, film critic, and the essayist thinker. The biography of Father Jean America died at the front in the First World War, the mother raised her son in the Catholic faith. He studied philosophy and literature in Vienna, was close to the Viennese mug, was published in the literary magazine “Die Bruck” after reading the Nunberg laws of the Nazis about Jews, he understood and accepted that he was a Jew.

After Anschlus, March emigrated to France, to Belgium. He joined the resistance, in July the Gestapo was arrested for anti-Nazi propaganda, was tortured in the Belgian fortress camp Breendon. After the war, he returned to Brussels, took the pseudonym, remaking his own name in the French manner, for a long time did not want to write in German, or talk about camp experience, nor to step on German land.

The author of the essential books “Youth Stars: Idols of our time”, “Charmed by jazz”, “Gerhardt Gauptmann. Eternal German ”in, losing the requests of the German writer Helmut Haissenbuttel, who worked on the radio of Southern Germany, Jean America spoke with the text about the fate of intellectuals in a concentration camp. This marked the beginning of his work on the work “Outside of guilt and atonement”, he went out and to the present day one of the main books about the concentration camp, the Holocaust of Shoa and the fate of the Jews in the disaster.

The figures of the camp and a Jew, a Jewish-conquered Jew, doomed to imminent destruction, become America for Jean to the reference points for the development of philosophy of a new, radical or integral humanism. Another of the most famous books by Jean America - Suicide, two years later he committed suicide at the Salzburg hotel, taking a deadly dose of barbiturates.

Buried in Vienna.

The recognition of the winner of the awards of German criticism and the Literary Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Extreme Arts, Vienna Prizes for publicism, the Lessing Awards of the city of Hamburg Books were translated into English, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Hungarian, Russian languages. Zurich: Thomas, Teenager-Stars: Idole Unserer Zeit.

Vienna: Albert Muller, Olten: Walter, Gerhart Hauptmann: Der Ewige Deutsche. Munich: Szczesny, Stuttgart: Klett, Unmeisterliche Wanderjahre. Lefeu Oder Der Abbruch. Hand An Sich Legen. Charles Bovary, Landarzt. Bucher aus der Jugend Unseres Jahrhunders. Stuttgart: Klett Cotta, Aufsatze und Kritiken Eines Lesers,-Stutttgart: Klett-Cotta, Jurgen Voigt. Gottingen: Lamuv, interview.

Cinema: Arbeiten Zum Film. STUTTGART: Kletta-Cotta, Consolidated editions of Werke in 9 Banden. Jerusalem; Moscow: Gesharim; Bridges of culture, p. On the other side of the crime and punishment. New publishing house. Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre, Sebald W. Arnold H. Jean America. Heidelberg: Winter, Lorenz D. Lang, Wolf S. Von Der Verwundbarkeit des humanismus: uber jean America. Lorenz-lindemann K.

Wieviel Heimat Braucht Der Mensch? Hans-Jurgen Schrader, Elliott M. Simon, Charlotte Wardi. Tubingen: niemeyer, pp. Neiman S. Sander L. Gilman, Jack Zipes. New Haven: Yale Up, pp. Fiero P. Schreiben Gegen Schweigen. Grenzerfahrungen in Jean Americans Autobiographischem Werk. Hildesheim, Zurich, New York: Olms, Cinanni M. Cosenza: Periferia, Rosina H. Kramer K.