Anna Seghers

Japanese: ゼーガース - ぜーがーす(英語表記)Anna Seghers
Anna Seghers

German female novelist. Her real name was Neti Radvani. She was born in Mainz as the daughter of an antiques dealer. She obtained a doctorate in Rembrandt studies. In 1928, she received the Kleist Prize for her novella The Fishermen's Rebellion of St. Barbara, a representative novella of socialist literature. She then worked as a revolutionary writer, and in 1933, she was briefly captured by the Nazi regime, but managed to escape and go to France, and then in 1941, she went into exile in Mexico. She completed works such as The Seventh Cross (1942) and Transit (1943), depicting the anti-Nazi struggle. In 1947, she returned to what was then East Germany. After the Second World War, she played an active role as a central writer in the German Democratic Republic. In 1951, she was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize. His full-length works include The Dead Are Forever Young (1949), The Decision (1959), and Trust (1968), while his short works include Dead Girls' Field Trip (1946), The First Step (1953), and The Light on the Gallows (1961).

[Hiroshi Yagi]

"The Literary World of Anna Seghers" by Tadamichi Michika, Osamu Ueno, Fumiko Nagahashi, and others (1982, Sanshusha)

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Japanese:

ドイツの女流小説家。本名ネティ・ラドバニ。古美術商の娘としてマインツに生まれる。レンブラント研究で学位を取得。1928年に社会主義文学の代表的な中編小説『聖バルバラの漁夫の反乱』でクライスト賞を受けた。その後革命的作家として活動、33年ナチス政権下に一時捕らえられたが逃走し、フランスへ、さらに41年にはメキシコへ亡命する。『第七の十字架』(1942)、『トランジット』(1943)をはじめとする作品を完成、反ナチスの闘いを描いた。47年、当時の東ドイツに帰国。第二次世界大戦後のドイツ民主共和国の中心的作家として活躍した。51年スターリン平和賞受賞。長編に『死者はいつまでも若い』(1949)、『決断』(1959)、『信頼』(1968)、短編に『死んだ少女たちの遠足』(1946)、『第一歩』(1953)、『絞首台上の光』(1961)などがある。

[八木 浩]

『道家忠道・上野修・長橋芙美子他著『アンナ・ゼーガースの文学世界』(1982・三修社)』

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