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Schade, dass du Jude bist: Kaleidoskop eines Lebens
Immer in Bewegung, sich ständig verändernd - so ist das Leben Walter Kaufmanns. Als Fünfzehnjähriger flieht er aus Nazideutschland nach England, wird von dort nach Australien deportiert, wo er sich mit verschiedenen Arbeiten über Wasser hält - im Krieg Soldat, später Hochzeitsfotograf, Dock- und Hafenarbeiter, zuletzt Seemann. Zurück in Deutschland ist es die DDR, die er wählt. Dort lebt er als Schriftsteller, geht wieder zur See, schreibt Reportagen aus Japan, Irland, Israel und den USA. Er bleibt in der Welt zu Hause.Seine autobiografischen Erzählungen lassen dieses bewegte Leben aus vielfältigen Blickwinkeln betrachten. Walter Kaufmann erzählt von Menschen, so verschieden, wie die Länder, die er bereiste, von Begegnungen, von Stimmungen, die er einfängt und die berühren. So offenbart sich dem Leser ein immer wieder neues, stets anderes Bild und jedes davon überrascht und verzaubert.Das literarische Kaleidoskop eines Lebens.
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Published September 1, 2017
About the author
Walter Kaufmann
40 booksGerman-Australian writer of Polish origin.
Kaufmann (born Jizchak Schmeidler), son of a Polish-Jewish woman called Rachela Schmeidler, was adopted by the wealthy German-Jewish couple Dr. Sally and Johanna Kaufmann at the age of three. While his adoptive parents were eventually murdered in Auschwitz, Kaufmann fled to England during the outbreak of the War, and was later deported to Australia on the infamous ship HMT Dunera in 1940. He soon joined the Australian army as a volunteer. After the war and demobilization he worked in different environments and various jobs at the same time trying to further his education.
Kaufmann joined the Melbourne Realist Writers' Group and had some of his stories published in the Realist Writer. He became politically active and traveled extensively. He was encouraged by writers such as Frank Hardy and David Martin to write a novel based on his own past in Nazi Germany (Voices in the Storm). Later Kaufmann settled in the East Berlin and continued publishing in English and German.
Kaufmann's schematic socialist realistic stories on the struggles of Australian trade unionists and the disenfranchisement of the Aborigines, became very popular in the GDR after his return to East Berlin in 1957
Kaufmann (born Jizchak Schmeidler), son of a Polish-Jewish woman called Rachela Schmeidler, was adopted by the wealthy German-Jewish couple Dr. Sally and Johanna Kaufmann at the age of three. While his adoptive parents were eventually murdered in Auschwitz, Kaufmann fled to England during the outbreak of the War, and was later deported to Australia on the infamous ship HMT Dunera in 1940. He soon joined the Australian army as a volunteer. After the war and demobilization he worked in different environments and various jobs at the same time trying to further his education.
Kaufmann joined the Melbourne Realist Writers' Group and had some of his stories published in the Realist Writer. He became politically active and traveled extensively. He was encouraged by writers such as Frank Hardy and David Martin to write a novel based on his own past in Nazi Germany (Voices in the Storm). Later Kaufmann settled in the East Berlin and continued publishing in English and German.
Kaufmann's schematic socialist realistic stories on the struggles of Australian trade unionists and the disenfranchisement of the Aborigines, became very popular in the GDR after his return to East Berlin in 1957
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