Stefan Andres
Appearance
Stefan Andres | |
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Born | Dhrönchen, Trittenheim, Germany | 26 June 1906
Died | 29 June 1970 Rome, Italy | (aged 64)
Occupation | Novelist |
Stefan Paul Andres (26 June 1906 – 29 June 1970) was a German novelist.
As the Nazi regime flexed its power,[how?] Andres moved away to Italy in 1937, returning to Germany 13 years later. [1] He was a widely read German writer in the post-World War II period. His most famous works are the novellas El Greco Paints the Grand Inquisitor (1936) and We Are Utopia (1942).[2]
He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[3]
Works
[edit]- Bruder Lucifer (1932)
- Eberhard im Kontrapunkt (1933)
- Die Löwenkanzel (1933)
- Die unsichtbare Mauer (1934)
- Vom heiligen Pfäfflein Domenico (1936)
- Utz, der Nachfahr (1936)
- El Greco malt den Großinquisitor* (1936)
- Moselländische Novellen (1937)
- Der Mann von Asteri (1939)
- Das Grab des Neides (1940)
- Der gefrorene Dionysos (1942)
- Wir sind Utopia* (1942)
- Wirtshaus zur weiten Welt (1943)
- Ein Herz wie man braucht (1946)
- Die Söhne Platons (1946)
- Die Hochzeit der Feinde (1947)
- An Freund und Feind (1947)
- Ritter der Gerechtigkeit (1948)
- Tanz durchs Labyrinth (1948)
- Das Tier aus der Tiefe (1949)
- Der Granatapfel (1950)
- Die Arche (1952)
- Der Knabe im Brunnen (1953)
- Die Rache der Schmetterlinge (1953)
- Die Reise nach Portiuncula (1954)
- Positana, Geschichten aus einer Stadt am Meer (1957)
- Der graue Regenbogen (1959)
- Die großen Weine Deutschlands (1961)
- Der Mann im Fisch (1963)
- Die biblische Geschichte* (1965)
- Der Taubenturm (1966)
- Ägyptisches Tagebuch (1967)
- Noah und seine Kinder (1968)
- Die Dumme (1969)
- Die Versuchung des Synesios (1970)
*indicates a work that has been translated into English
References
[edit]- Furness, Raymond and Malcolm Humble (1991). A Companion to Twentieth Century German Literature. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-01987-7.
Notes
[edit]- ^ "STEFAN ANDRES, 64, GERMAN NOVELIST". The New York Times. 1970-07-31. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
- ^ Klapper, John (2015). "Stefan Andres: The Christian Humanist Response to Tyranny". Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany: The Literature of Inner Emigration. Boydell and Brewer. pp. 143–176. doi:10.1515/9781782045625-009.
- ^ "Nomination Database". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2017-04-19.
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