Ruth Klüger (1931–2020)
Auteur de Refus de témoigner : Une jeunesse
Ruth Klüger est Ruth Kluger (1). Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Ruth Kluger, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Œuvres de Ruth Klüger
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Ich stamme aus Wien : Kindheit und Jugend von der Wiener Moderne bis 1938 (2008) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Kluger, Ruth Susan
- Date de naissance
- 1931-10-30
- Date de décès
- 2020-10-06
- Lieu de sépulture
- Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
Austria (birth) - Lieu de naissance
- Vienna, Austria
- Lieu du décès
- Irvine, California, USA
- Cause du décès
- cancer (bladder)
- Lieux de résidence
- Theresienstadt concentration camp
Straubing, Germany
Regensburg, Germany
Göttingen, Germany
New York, New York, USA
Irvine, California, USA - Études
- University of California, Berkeley (MA - English, PhD - German Literature)
- Professions
- professor emerita (German Studies)
German literature scholar
Holocaust survivor
autobiographer
essayist
literary critic (tout afficher 7)
poet - Organisations
- Case Western Reserve University
University of Kansas
University of Cincinnati
University of Virginia
Princeton University
University of California, Irvine - Prix et distinctions
- Thomas-Mann-Preis (1999)
- Courte biographie
- Ruth Klüger was born to a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria. Her parents were Alma (Hirschel) and Viktor Klüger. In 1938, following Nazi Germany's Anschluss (annexation) of Austria, six-year-old Ruth "suddenly became a disadvantaged child," she later wrote. She had to change schools frequently and finally stopped going altogether. Her father, a pediatrician and gynecologist, lost his license to practice medicine and was later sent to prison. In 1942, at age 10, Ruth was deported with her mother to the Terezín (Theresienstadt) concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Her father fled to France, but was deported to the Baltics by the Nazis and murdered. Her half-brother Georg was deported to Riga, Latvia, where he was murdered. Ruth and Alma were sent to the death camp at Auschwitz, then to Christianstadt, a slave labor subcamp of Gross-Rosen. After escaping a death march in February 1945, Ruth and her mother joined the flow of refugees into Germany, where they stayed until being allowed to emigrate to the USA in 1947. Ruth studied English literature at Hunter College in New York City, got married after graduation, and had two sons. In the 1960s, she divorced and moved to California to earn M.A. and PhD degrees in German literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She had a successful career in academe as a professor of German literature in Cleveland, Kansas, and Virginia, and at Princeton and UC Irvine. Prof. Klüger became a recognized authority on German literature, especially of the 18th and 19th centuries. Her published works included scholarly articles, essays, poetry, and literary criticism. In 1992, she published her autobiography, Weiter leben: Eine Jugend, about her life before, during, and after the Holocaust. It became an instant hit and earned her numerous international prizes. It also established her as an important public intellectual in Germany and Austria. The book was translated into several languages and adapted for the stage. In 2001, it was published in English as Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered. In 2008, Prof. Klüger published Unterwegs verloren, Wien: Zsolnay (Lost on the Way), a sequel that provided further insights into her life in the USA and Europe.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 14
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 552
- Popularité
- #45,212
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 15
- ISBN
- 55
- Langues
- 8
- Favoris
- 3
Kindheit einer Jüdin in Wien
Mit sieben Jahren durfte sie in ihrer Heimatstadt Wien auf keiner Parkbank mehr sitzen. Mit elf kam sie in KZ. Ruth Klüger erzählt ihre Kindheit und Jugend