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    Jean Améry

    31 October 1912 - 17 October 1978

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    Jean Améry (31. Oktober 1912 – 17. Oktober 1978), geboren als Hans Chaim Maier, war ein in Österreich geborener Essayist, dessen Werk häufig von seinen Erlebnissen im Zweiten Weltkrieg geprägt war. Nach 1945 nahm er das Pseudonym Jean Améry an, ein Anagramm von Mayer und Jean, der französischen Form von Hans. Améry, der zuvor Philosophie und Literatur in Wien studiert hatte, wurde aufgrund seiner Beteiligung am organisierten Widerstand gegen die nationalsozialistische Besatzung Belgiens von der Gestapo in Fort Breendonk inhaftiert und gefoltert und verbrachte mehrere Jahre in Konzentrationslagern. Er überlebte die Internierung in Auschwitz und Buchenwald und wurde schließlich 1945 in Bergen-Belsen befreit. Nach dem Krieg ließ er sich in Belgien nieder. Améry beging 1978 Suizid. ---------- Jean Améry (31 October 1912 – 17 October 1978), born Hans Chaim Maier, was an Austrian-born essayist whose work was often informed by his experiences during World War II. He adopted the pseudonym Jean Améry, an anagram of Mayer and Jean, the French form of Hans, after 1945. Formerly a philosophy and literature student in Vienna, Améry's participation in organized resistance against the Nazi occupation of Belgium resulted in his detainment and torture by the German Gestapo at Fort Breendonk, and several years of imprisonment in concentration camps. Améry survived internments in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and was finally liberated at Bergen-Belsen in 1945. After the war he settled in Belgium. Améry died by suicide in 1978.

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