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Ernst Kreuder

エルンスト・クロイダー

Ernst Kreuder

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1903-08-29 （Zeitz, Germany）
Died
1972-12-24 （Darmstadt, Germany） age 69
Nationality
German
Languages
German
Residence History
Zeitz (birthplace) → Darmstadt (place of death)

Career

Occupations
Writer
Active Years
1930-1972

Awards

Georg Büchner Prize
1953
Organization: Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Attic Pretenders

1946 Novel

Concerns the boundary between imagination and reality, depicting their relation through a secret-association viewpoint; it was well received when published.

Ambiguity of imagination and realitySolitudeMelancholy

Those Who Cannot Be Found

Novel

One of his works focusing on those who remain undiscovered or overlooked.

Discovery and lossOverlooked beings

The Undiscoverables

Novel

Considered part of a group of works that portray the uncertainty of existence through invisible or undiscoverable characters and events.

Uncertainty of existenceInvisibility

Bibliography

  • The Attic Pretenders
  • Those Who Cannot Be Found
  • The Undiscoverables

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Melancholic and allegorical styleElements described as KafkaesquePortrayal that blurs the boundary between imagination and reality
Recurring Motifs
Interplay of imagination and realityLonely charactersSecret-association imagery

Legacy

A postwar German writer noted for works that blurred imagination and reality. He gained attention with his 1946 work and won the Georg Büchner Prize in 1953. Admired by figures such as Unica Zürn, his Kafkaesque melancholy has been recognized, though he himself argued against a fashion of hopeless despair in literature.

Academic Societies

  • Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung

In Popular Culture

  • Noted as a favorite of writer Unica Zürn (citation in literature commentary)

Quotes

  • "The literary fashion of hopeless despair must be overcome."
    Source: Quoted in literary criticism (source: Bruno Boesch et al.)

Trivia

  • Won the Georg Büchner Prize in 1953.
  • Unica Zürn cited one of his books as a favorite.
  • His works are often described as melancholic or Kafkaesque, though he rejected a fashion of literary despair.