Hans Keilson
Biography
Hans Keilson was born in 1909 in Bad Freienwalde. His father was as textile dealer. He studied pharmacology in Berlin and was a jazz trumpeter. However, Nazi laws prevented Jews from working in the medical profession and he became a gym teacher, before emigrating to the Netherlands in 1936. His first novel was the last work published by Fischer written by a Jew till the War and was almost immediately banned. He published a few works in Dutch before the War but did not publish again in German till after the War. When the Germans invaded the Netherlands, he fled to Delft, leaving behind his pregnant wife. In Delft he worked as a doctor under an assumed name. He stayed in the Netherlands after the War, working as a psychiatrist and becoming a Dutch citizen. Though he published a few works, he received little attention till his 100th birthday in 2009, when media attention led to his work Der Tod des Widersachers (The Death of the Adversary) being translated in twenty languages. He died in 2011, aged 101.
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Hans Keilson
In the mouth of the dragon (profile)
Interview
Obituary
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Hans Keilson (in German)
Herausgefallen aus der Welt (profile – in German)
Schön, gefragt zu werden (profile – in German)
“Das Leben ist ein anderes…” Hans Keilson zum 90. Geburtstag (1999)” (in German)
“Literatur ist das Gedächtnis der Menschheit”: Der jüdische Psychoanalytiker, Schriftsteller und Pädagoge Hans Keilson (in German)
Interview (in German)
Obituary (in German)
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Obituary (in German)
Bibliography
1934 Das Leben geht weiter
1939 In het doolhof der liefde: een avontuurlijke wandeling door de tuinen der Nederlandsche Minnezangers
1939 Ridder zonder vrees of blaam een groote verjaarspartij met genoodigde en ongenoodigde gasten ter eere van den 70-jahrigen Handrikus Colijn
1939 Zeven maal zeven vredesstemmen aller tijden en volken
1947 Komödie in Moll (Comedy in a Minor Key)
1959 Der Tod des Widersachers (The Death of the Adversary)
1979 Sequentielle Traumatisierung. Deskriptiv-klinische und quantifizierend-statistische follow-up Untersuchung zum Schicksal der jüdischen Kriegswaisen in den Niederlanden (Sequential traumatization in children: a clinical and statistical follow-up study on the fate of the Jewish war orphans in the Netherlands)
1986 Sprachwurzellos
1992 Einer Träumenden
1998″Wohin die Sprache nicht reicht” Vorträge und Essays aus den Jahren 1936-1997
1999 Zerstörung und Erinnerung. Zum 90. Geburtstag des Autors
2003 Sieben Sterne
2011 Da steht mein Haus. Erinnerungen (There Stands My House: A Memoir)
2011 Kein Plädoyer für eine Luftschaukel. Essays, Reden, Gespräche