Manes Sperber ( German: Manès Sperber ; December 12, 1905 , Zablotov , Galicia , Austria-Hungary , now Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast , Ukraine , - February 5, 1984 , Paris , France ) - German and French writer, essayist, social psychologist.
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| Date of Birth | December 12, 1905 |
| Place of Birth | Zabolotov ,  Austria-Hungary Snyatyn district Ivano-Frankivsk region |
| Date of death | February 5, 1984 (78 years old) |
| Place of death | Paris  France |
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| Occupation | , , |
| Language of Works | french, german |
| Awards | [d] ( 1977 ) Georg Buchner Prize ( 1975 ) [d] German Booksellers Peace Prize ( 1983 ) Charles Veyonne European Essay Essay ( 1979 ) [d] ( 1979 ) [d] ( 1971 ) [d] ( 1977 ) [d] ( 1974 ) |
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Biography
Born in a Hasidic family, in 1916 moved to Vienna . There, Sperber joined the youth social-democratic movement Hashomer-Hatsair . He studied under Alfred Adler before breaking up with him in 1932 ; in 1926, Sperber published a monographic essay on the teacher.
In 1927, Sperber moved to Berlin , joined the Communist Party . Professor of Psychology and Sociology in Berlin ( 1928 - 1933 ). With the advent of the Nazis to power, he was deprived of the chair, imprisoned, but was soon released as an Austrian citizen. He went abroad - to Yugoslavia, and in 1934 - to Paris. In 1937 he left the ranks of the Communist Party. In 1939 he published in Paris in German the anti-totalitarian essays "An Analysis of Tyranny", "Totalitarian State".
After the occupation of Paris by German troops, he took refuge with his family in the town of Caen in the Alps , in the free zone, and in 1942 he moved the family to neutral Switzerland. In 1945 he returned to Paris , worked in a publishing house.
He was buried in the cemetery of Montparnasse .
Literary work
The famous cycle of Sperber’s novels “Like a Tear in the Ocean” ( 1949 - 1955 , publ. 1961 ), the autobiographical trilogy “All Days Lived” ( 1974 - 1977 ).
Compositions
- Charlatan und seine Zeit ( 1924 )
- Alfred Adler - Der Mensch und seine Lehre - Ein Essay ( 1926 )
- Zur Analyse der Tyrannis ( 1939 , Essay)
- Wie eine Träne im Ozean ( 1961 )
- Der verbrannte Dornbusch ( 1949 )
- Tiefer als der Abgrund ( 1950 )
- Die verlorne Bucht ( 1955 )
- Die Achillesferse ( 1960 )
- Zur täglichen Weltgeschichte ( 1967 )
- Alfred Adler oder Das Elend der Psychologie ( 1970 )
- Leben in dieser Zeit ( 1972 )
- Wir und Dostojewski: eine Debatte mit Heinrich Böll ua geführt von Manès Sperber ( 1972 )
- Zur Analyse der Tyrannis. Das Unglück, begabt zu sein. Zwei sozialpsychologische Essays ( 1975 )
- All das vergangene
- Die Wasserträger Gottes ( 1974 )
- Die vergebliche Warnung ( 1975 )
- Bis man mir Scherben auf die Augen legt ( 1977 )
- Individuum und Gemeinschaft ( 1978 )
- Sieben Fragen zur Gewalt ( 1978 )
- Churban oder Die unfaßbare Gewißheit ( 1979 )
- Der freie Mensch ( 1980 )
- Nur eine Brücke zwischen gestern und morgen ( 1980 )
- Die Wirklichkeit in der Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts ( 1983 )
- Ein politisches Leben - Gespräche mit Leonhard Reinisch ( 1984 )
- Geteilte Einsamkeit - Der Autor und seine Leser ( 1985 , Essay)
- Der schwarze Zaun ( 1986 )
Publications in Russian
- Like a tear in the ocean. M .: Fiction, 1992.
- In vain warning. Kiev: Gamayun, 2002.
Rewards
The Grand Literary Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts ( 1971 ), the Georg Büchner Prize ( 1975 ), the Grand State Literary Prize of Austria ( 1977 ), the Peace Prize of German booksellers ( 1983 ).
Notes
Literature
- Manès Sperber: Leben und Werk. Frankfurt / Main: Stroemfeld, 2003
- Isler R. Manès Sperber. Zeuge des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine Lebensgeschichte. Aarau: Sauerländer & Cornelsen, 2004
- Patka MG Manès Sperber - ein politischer Moralist. Wien: Jüdisches Mus. d. Stadt Wien, 2006