biography
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Heym, Stefan
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originally Hellmuth Fliegel
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pronunciation:
[hiym]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1913–2001)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Chemnitz, E Germany. Initially a journalist, he left for Czechoslovakia in 1933, then went to the USA. Returning to Germany as an American soldier, he founded Die Neue Zeitung (1945) in Munich but was sent back to the USA for his Communist beliefs, moving to East Germany in 1952. He wrote most of his early novels initially in English, such as English Hostages (1942, trans Der Fall Glasenapp, 1958) and achieved international renown for Kreuzfahrer von heute (1948). His many writings were critical of society in both East and West Germany. In 1994 he was a member of the German Bundestag for one year. He received the Jerusalem Preis in 1993. |
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