Anna Seghers, is the pseudonym of a German writer notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War.
21 Facts About Anna Seghers
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Anna Seghers was granted a visa and gained ship's passage to Mexico, where she lived in Mexico City.
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Anna Seghers returned to Europe after the war, living in West Berlin, which was occupied by Allied forces.
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Anna Seghers eventually settled in the German Democratic Republic, where she worked on cultural and peace issues.
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Anna Seghers received numerous awards and in 1967 was nominated for the Nobel Prize by the GDR.
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Anna Seghers died and was buried in Berlin in 1983.
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Seghers was born Anna Reiling in Mainz in 1900 into a Jewish family.
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Anna Seghers's father, Isidor Reiling, was a dealer in antiques and cultural artefacts.
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Anna Seghers joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1928, at a time when the Weimar Republic was moribund and soon to be replaced.
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Anna Seghers's 1932 novel, Die Gefahrten was a prophetic warning of the dangers of Nazism, for which she was arrested by the Gestapo.
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Anna Seghers founded Freies Deutschland, an academic journal.
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In 1947 Anna Seghers was awarded the Georg Buchner-Prize for this novel.
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Anna Seghers explores the actions of the protagonist's classmates in light of their decisions and ultimate fates during both world wars.
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In describing them, the German countryside, and her hometown Mainz, which was destroyed in the second war, Anna Seghers expresses lost innocence and ponders the senseless injustices of war.
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In 1947, Anna Seghers returned to Germany, settling in West Berlin, an enclave within the Soviet-controlled East Germany.
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Anna Seghers joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the zone occupied by the Soviets.
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In 1951, Anna Seghers received the first National Prize of the GDR and the Stalin Peace Prize.
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Anna Seghers received an honorary doctorate from the University of Jena in 1959.
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Anna Seghers was nominated for the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature by the German Academy of Arts.
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Anna Seghers died in Berlin on 1 June 1983 and is buried there.
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Anna Seghers made a number of important contributions to Exilliteratur, including her novels Transit and The Seventh Cross.