!!!Wander, Fred

Wander, Fred, b. Vienna, Jan. 5, 1917. Narrative writer, 
dramatist, author of books for young people; the son of Eastern 
European Jewish parents, he was imprisoned in Auschwitz and Buchenwald 
concentration camps 1942-1945; after the war worked as a photographer 
and journalist. In 1955 moved to East Germany with his wife Maxie  
Wander. 1983 returned to Vienna. Became famous through his books for 
young people ("Taifun ueber den Inseln", 1958) as well as books for a 
wider audience, in which he pleads for tolerance, humanity and coming 
to terms with the past ("Der siebente Brunnen", 1971).

!Further works
Novels and narratives: Bandidos, 1963; Ein Zimmer in 
Paris, 1975; Hotel Baalbek, 1991. - Das gute Leben. Erinnerungen, 
1996. - Travel books.

!Literature
N. Hirsch, F. W., master´s thesis, Vienna 1995.


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