!!!Anders, Günther eigentlich G. Stern

b. Wroclav, Poland (then Breslau), July 12, 1902, 
d. Vienna, Dec. 17, 1992, philosopher, writer; husband of Elisabeth  
Freundlich. Studied under M. Heidegger and E. Husserl and completed 
his Ph. D. in Fribourg in 1923. In 1933 emigrated to Paris, 1936 to 
the USA; returned to Vienna in 1950. Gained public acclaim with "Die 
Antiquiertheit des Menschen" ("The Obsolescence of Man") (2 vols., 
1956/1980), a collection of literary-philosophical essays in which he 
propounded the theory that man cannot cope with his own technological 
progress. Co-founder and leading member of the international 
anti-nuclear movement.

!Works
Die molusskische Katakombe, 1935 (novel); Visit Beautiful 
Vietnam, ABC der Aggression heute, 1968; Hiroshima ist ueberall, 1982; 
Ketzereien, 1991.

!Literature
J. Langenbach, G. A., 1988.



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