About Franz Carl Weiskopf
Lived 1900 – 1955 (aged 55). Franz Carl Weiskopf was an Austrian translator, diplomat, journalist, writer, opinion journalist and prose writer.
Franz Carl Weiskopf (right), with Gotthold Gloger and Alex Wedding. Franz Carl Weiskopf (3 April 1900 in Prague – 14 September 1955) was a German-speaking writer. Born in Prague, then part of Austria-Hungary, he was often referred to as F. C. Weiskopf, he also used the pseudonyms Petr Buk, Pierre Buk and F. W. L. Kovacs. He died in Berlin in 1955.
Life
Weiskopf was the son of a German banker who was Jewish and a Czech mother. He studied at a German school in Prague and then went to university in his hometown to study Germanistik and history from 1919 to 1923. He traveled to the Soviet Union in 1926 Two years later he moved to Berlin where he became editor of the Berlin am Morgen newspaper. He was a member in good standing of the Confederation of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers (German: Bund proletarisch-revolutionärer Schriftsteller) and participated in a conference in 1930 with Anna Seghers in Charkow in the Soviet Union.
He married the writer Grete Bernheim.
After the takeover by the Nazis in 1933 Weiskopf returned to Prague, where he was editor of the Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung.
After the end of the war, Weiskopf was in the diplomatic service of Czechoslovakia and worked, first at an Embassy in Washington DC, 1949 to 1950 as ambassador to Stockholm, and from 1950 to 1952 as ambassador to Beijing.
F.C. Weiskopf and his wife are buried in Berlin's Friedrichsfelde Cemetery.
Works Weiskopf's works include; Es geht eine Trommel, Berlin-Schöneberg 1923 Die Flucht nach Frankreich, Wien [u. a.] 1926 Umsteigen ins 21. Jahrhundert, Berlin 1927 Wer keine Wahl hat, hat die Qual, Berlin 1928 Der Traum des Friseurs Cimbura, Berlin 1930 Der Staat ohne Arbeitslose, Berlin 1931 (zusammen mit Ernst Glaeser und Alfred Kurella) Das Slawenlied, Berlin 1931 Zukunft im Rohbau, Berlin 1932 Die Stärkeren, Moskau [u. a.] 1934 Die Versuchung, Zürich 1937 La tragédie tchécoslavaque, Paris 1939 (unter dem Namen Pierre Buk) The untamed Balkans, New York 1941 (unter dem Namen Frederic W. L. Kovacs) Vor einem neuen Tag, Mexico 1944 Himmelfahrts-Kommando, Stockholm 1945 Die Unbesiegbaren, New York 1945 Unter fremden Himmeln, Berlin 1948 Abschied vom Frieden, Berlin 1950 Elend und Größe unserer Tage, Berlin 1950 Der ferne Klang, Berlin 1950 Menschen, Städte und Jahre, Wien 1950 Kinder ihrer Zeit, Berlin 1951 Die Reise nach Kanton, Berlin 1953 Das Anekdotenbuch, Berlin 1954 Aus allen vier Winden, Berlin 1954 Verteidigung der deutschen Sprache, Berlin 1955 Literarische Streifzüge, Berlin 1956 Gesammelte Werke, Berlin Bd. 1. Abschied vom Frieden, 1960 (bereits 1950 im Dietz Verlag erschienen) Bd. 2. Inmitten des Stroms. Welt in Wehen, 1960 Bd. 3. Das Slawenlied. Vor einem neuen Tag, 1960 Bd. 4. Lissy. Himmelfahrtskommando, 1960 Bd. 5. Gedichte und Nachdichtungen, 1960 Bd. 6. Anekdoten und Erzählungen, 1960 Bd. 7. Reportagen, 1960 Bd. 8. Über Literatur und Sprache. Verteidigung der deutschen Sprache, 1960 Briefwechsel 1942 - 1948, Berlin [u. a.] 1990 (mit Bodo Uhse)
Editorials
Januartage, Prag-Karlin 1926 Denise Leblond-Zola: Zola, Berlin 1932 Hundred towers, New York 1945 Kisch-Kalender, Berlin 1955
Translations
Tschechische Lieder, Berlin 1925 Das Herz - ein Schild, London 1937 Gesang der gelben Erde, Berlin 1951 Chien Tien: Des Tien Tschien Lied vom Karren, Berlin 1953 Max Švabinský: Schmetterlingszeit, Prag 1954
Films 1957: Lissy - Director: Konrad Wolf 1977: Abschied vom Frieden - Director: Hans-Joachim Kasprzik
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German-Czech writer (1900-1955)
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Franz Carl Weiskopf was born on 3 April 1900 in Prague.
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Franz Carl Weiskopf died on 14 September 1955 in Berlin.
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Franz Carl Weiskopf was a translator, diplomat, journalist, writer, opinion journalist and prose writer.
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Franz Carl Weiskopf was Austrian.
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