Jean Améry

Jean Améry

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Jean Améry (31. Oktober 1912 – 17. Oktober 1978), geboren als Hans Chaim Maier, war ein in Österreich geborener Essayist, dessen Werk häufig von seinen Erlebnissen im Zweiten Weltkrieg geprägt war. Nach 1945 nahm er das Pseudonym Jean Améry an, ein Anagramm von Mayer und Jean, der französischen Form von Hans. Améry, der zuvor Philosophie und Literatur in Wien studiert hatte, wurde aufgrund seiner Beteiligung am organisierten Widerstand gegen die nationalsozialistische Besatzung Belgiens von der Gestapo in Fort Breendonk inhaftiert und gefoltert und verbrachte mehrere Jahre in Konzentrationslagern. Er überlebte die Internierung in Auschwitz und Buchenwald und wurde schließlich 1945 in Bergen-Belsen befreit. Nach dem Krieg ließ er sich in Belgien nieder. Améry beging 1978 Suizid. ---------- Jean Améry (31 October 1912 – 17 October 1978), born Hans Chaim Maier, was an Austrian-born essayist whose work was often informed by his experiences during World War II. He adopted the pseudonym Jean Améry, an anagram of Mayer and Jean, the French form of Hans, after 1945. Formerly a philosophy and literature student in Vienna, Améry's participation in organized resistance against the Nazi occupation of Belgium resulted in his detainment and torture by the German Gestapo at Fort Breendonk, and several years of imprisonment in concentration camps. Améry survived internments in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and was finally liberated at Bergen-Belsen in 1945. After the war he settled in Belgium. Améry died by suicide in 1978.

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Suc ve Kefaretin Otesinde
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Die Schiffbr uchigen: Roman
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Werke 5. Aufsätze zur Literatur und zum Film
Representative edition published 2003
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Werke
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Revuelta y resignación
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Über das Altern. Revolte und Resignation
Representative edition published 2001
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Hand an sich legen. Diskurs über den Freitod
Representative edition published 2001
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On suicide
Representative edition published 1999
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Porter la main sur soi - traite du suicide
Representative edition published 1999
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Charles Bovary, Landarzt. Portrait eines einfachen Mannes
Representative edition published 1997
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Jean Améry (Hans Maier)
Representative edition published 1996
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Lefeu, ou, la démolition
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Ressentiments
Representative edition published 1995
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All I Needed to Say
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On aging
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Jenseits von Schuld und Sühne
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Du vieillissement
Representative edition published 1991
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Widersprüche
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Der integrale Humanismus
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Unmeisterliche Wanderjahre
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Radical humanism
Representative edition published 1984
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Hand an sich legen
Representative edition published 1983
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Weiterleben, aber wie?
Representative edition published 1982
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Bücher aus der Jugend unseres Jahrhunderts
Representative edition published 1981
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