!!!Fried, Erich

b. Vienna, May 6, 1921, 
d. Baden-Baden (Germany), Nov. 22, 1988; poet, narrative writer, 
essayist, translator; son of a Jewish forwarding agent who was 
murdered by the Gestapo, the secret state police of the Nazi regime. 
F. emigrated to London in 1938, where he worked as a political 
commentator for the BBC from 1952-1968. Until 1944 he actively 
participated in communist organizations in exile. Was a member of the 
"Group 47" (Gruppe 47) from 1963. The basic subjects taken up in his 
poems are the loss of one's native country and the feeling of being 
away from home ("100 Gedichte ohne Vaterland", 1978). While his 
uncompromising political poetry ("und Vietnam und", 1966; "Hoere, 
Israel!", 1974) and his public comments on certain issues 
("Spiegelaffaere", 1972, a work in which he criticized the way in 
which the members of the Bader-Meinhof Group were "hunted") aroused 
heated controversy, his poems about love, "Liebesgedichte" (1979), won 
wide recognition. Awarded the Austrian State Prize in 1986, the Georg 
Buechner Prize in 1987.

!Further works
Poetry Warngedichte, 1964; Ueberlegungen, 1965; 
Anfechtungen, 1967; Unter Nebenfeinden, 1970; Die Freiheit den Mund 
aufzumachen, 1972; So kam ich unter die Deutschen, 1977; Es ist was es 
ist, 1983; Reich der Steine, 1984; Fruehe Gedichte, 1986; Voruebungen 
fuer ein Wunder, 1987; Unverwunden, 1988. Prose: Ein Soldat und ein 
Maedchen, 1960 (novel); Das Unmass aller Dinge, 1982 (narratives); 
Mitunter sogar Lachen, 1986 (autobiography); Nicht verdraengen nicht 
gewoehnen. Texte zum Thema Oe., ed. by M. Lewin, 1987; Gedanken in und 
an Deutschland, ed. by. M. Lewin, 1988. - Translations (W. 
Shakespeare's dramas). - Edition: Gesammelte Werke, 1998, ed. by 
V. Kaukoreit, 4 vols., 1993.

!Literature
E. F., Text und Kritik, 1986; S. W. Lawrie, 
E. F. A Writer without a Country, 1995; C. Jessen, E. F., 
eine Chronik. Leben und Werk, 1998; G. Lampe, E. F. Biographie 
und Werk eines "dt. Dichters", %%sup 2/%1998; C. Dressler, 
"Nach dem Landlos greift der Landlosen Hand", 1998.



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