Jean Améry (1912–1978)
Author of At the Mind's Limit
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Works by Jean Améry
Geburt der Gegen wart 5 copies
Despre îmbătrânire 1 copy
عند حدود العقل 1 copy
Der integrale Humanismus zwischen Philosophie und Literatur, Aufsätze und Kritiken eines Lesers 1966-1978 (1985) 1 copy
Intellettuale ad Auschwitz 1 copy
Unterwegs nach Oudenaarde 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Améry, Jean
- Legal name
- Mayer, Hans
- Other names
- Mayer, Hanns
- Birthdate
- 1912-10-31
- Date of death
- 1978-10-17
- Burial location
- Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Austria
Belgium - Birthplace
- Vienna, Austria
- Place of death
- Salzburg, Austria
- Places of residence
- Bad Ischl, Austria
Vienna, Austria
Berlin, Germany
Antwerpen, Belgium
Brussels, Belgium
London, England, UK - Education
- Vienna
- Occupations
- author
Holocaust survivor
memoirist
essayist - Relationships
- Helmut Heißenbüttel
- Organizations
- Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
- Short biography
- Born and educated in Vienna, Améry fled to Belgium in 1935 and joined the Resistance. He was captured by the Gestapo in 1943, tortured, and interned at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Bergen-Belsen. After the war he changed his name from Hans Mayer to Jean Améry to disassociate himself with German culture, and he refused to publish in Germany or Austria for many years. He committed suicide in 1978.
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Jean Améry was one of Europe's most profound critics and essayists. Fleeing his native Vienna after the proclamation of the Nuremberg Laws, he joined the Resistance in Belgium, where he was subsequently captured by the Gestapo and sent to a series of concentration camps. After the war he made his home in Belgium until his death in 1978. At the Mind's limits was his unflinching analysis of his own inner world as a Holocaust victim and survivor. [from The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal (March 1998 ed.)]
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