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Ruth Klüger (30 October 1931 – 6 October 2020) was Professor Emerita of German Studies at the University of California, Irvine and a Holocaust survivor. She was the author of the bestseller Weiter leben: Eine Jugend (English translation by the author: Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered) about her childhood in Vienna and in Nazi concentration camps. Biography Ruth Klüger was born on 30 October 1931 in Vienna. In March 1938, Hitler marched into Vienna. The annexation of Austria by the Nazis deeply affected Klüger's life: Klüger, who then was only six years old, had to change schools frequently and grew up in an increasingly hostile and anti-Semitic environment. Her father, a Jewish gynaecologist, lost his license and was later sent to prison for performing an illegal abortion.In September 1942, she was deported to Theresienstadt at the age of 10, together with her mother; her father had tried to flee abroad, but was detained and murdered. One year later she was transferred to Auschwitz, then to Christianstadt, a subcamp of Gross-Rosen. After the end of World War II in 1945, she settled in the Bavarian town of Straubing and later studied philosophy and history at the Philosophisch-theologische Hochschule in Regensburg. In 1947 she emigrated to the United States and studied English literature at Hunter College and German literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Klüger obtained an M.A. in 1952 and a Ph.D. in 1967. She worked as a professor of German literature in Cleveland, Kansas, and Virginia, and at Princeton and UC Irvine. Klüger was a recognized authority on German literature, and especially on Lessing and Kleist. She lived in Irvine, California, and Göttingen, Germany. Her memoir, Still Alive, which focuses primarily on her youth in concentration camps, is critical of the museum culture surrounding the Holocaust.Klüger died in her home in Irvine, California, on 5 October 2020, 25 days before she would have turned 89. She was buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery. Bibliography Publications include: Weiter leben: Eine Jugend, Göttingen 1992 Katastrophen: Über die deutsche Literatur, Göttingen 1993 Von hoher und niederer Literatur, Göttingen 1995 Knigges Umgang mit Menschen, "Eine Vorlesung", Göttingen 1996 Frauen lesen anders, Munich 1996 Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered, New York: The Feminist Press, 2001 (English translation of weiter leben: Eine Jugend); issued in Great Britain in 2003 (London: Bloomsbury Publishing) under the title Landscapes of Memory Unterwegs verloren: Erinnerungen, Wien, Paul Zsolnay 2008She also published under the name Ruth Angress. Prizes Klüger was awarded many prizes, including: Rauris Literature Prize (1993) Grimmelshausen Prize (1993) Niedersachsenpreis (1993) Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize (1995) Andreas Gryphius Prize, honorary prize (1996) Heinrich-Heine-Medaille (1997) Österreichischer Staatspreis für Literaturkritik (1998) Prix de la Shoah (1998) Thomas Mann Prize (1999) Preis der Frankfurter Anthologie (1999) Goethe Medal (2005) Roswitha Prize (2006) Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony (2007) Hermann Cohen Medal (2008) Ehrenmedaille der Stadt Göttingen (2010) Austrian Danubius Donauland Nonfiction Book Prize (de) (2010), for her life's work Theodor-Kramer-Preis (2011)References. Discover the Ruth Kluger popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Ruth Kluger books.
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Die Darstellung und Aufarbeitung des Holocaust in Deutschland
Lisa-Marie RohrdantzMartin Walsers Dankesrede zur Verleihung des Friedenspreises des Deutschen Buchhandels in der Paulskirche am 11. Oktober 1998 folgte eine kontrovers geführte Debatte unter Deutschl...
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In eurem Schatten beginnt mein Tag
Veronica FrenzelSchon als Kind ahnte Veronica Frenzel, dass in ihrer Familiengeschichte etwas Bedrohliches liegt. Sie schnappte es nebenbei auf, reimte es sich aus Gesprächsfetzen zusammen. Doch n...
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A Psychological Interpretation of RUTH in the Light of Mythology, Legend and Kabbalah
Yehezkel KlugerThe biblical Book of Ruth is a love story, apparently personal and simple – of love between women and between man and woman – told in poetic imagery and style. Barely hiding within...
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HolocaustZeugnisLiteratur
Markus Roth & Sascha FeuchertVon Jurek Beckers »Jakob der Lügner« bis zu Art Spiegelmans »Maus«: Wichtige Texte der Holocaustliteratur neu gelesen. Vom Beginn der NSVerfolgungspolitik an wurde und wird diese ...
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Landschaften der Metropole des Todes
Otto Dov KulkaDie einzigartigen Betrachtungen eines Mannes über die wiederkehrenden Erinnerungen an seine Kindheit in AuschwitzDie Metropole des Todes, das ist AuschwitzBirkenau. Als Kind wird O...