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- Hermann_Kesten abstract "Hermann Kesten (28 January 1900 – 3 May 1996) was a German novelist and dramatist. He was one of the principal literary figures of the New Objectivity movement in 1920's Germany.The literary prize Hermann Kesten Medal has been given in his honor since 1985.Kesten was born in Nuremberg in 1900 as son of a Jewish merchant. In the early 1920s, while a student in Frankfurt, he was already writing plays and forging literary plans. Even at this early stage he seems to have envisaged twin careers for himself, as a writer and as a publisher. Personal contacts – Kesten always relished the company of fellow writers and publishers – facilitated the move to Berlin to take up, in 1928, a post as an editor with the left-wing publisher Kiepenheuer. In the same year he published his first novel, Josef sucht die Freiheit (\"Josef breaks free\"). Two more novels quickly followed: Ein ausschweifender Mensch (\"Running Riot\", 1929) and Glückliche Menschen (\"Happy Man\", 1931).1933, when Hitler came to power, he left Germany and in Paris Kesten began working for the Amsterdam publisher Allert de Lange. Amsterdam became a centre of exile for German book-publishing in the 1930s and Kesten, who moved there and became part of it, took seriously the task of creating communities and preserving continuities, editing banned writers known and unknown, past and present, from Heinrich Heine to Bertholt Brecht. In 1940 Kesten emigrated to New York and later acquired American citizenship.Throughout the Hitler years and beyond Kesten continued to write prolifically. Indeed the experience of those troubled times yielded fiction and nonfiction: novels tracing contrasting fates – Die Zwillinge von Nürnberg (\"The Twins of Nuremberg\", 1946) – or a Jew's recovery, against the odds, of his faith – Die fremden Götter (\"Strange Gods\", 1949) – or biographies of seekers after varieties of freedom – Copernicus (1948) and Casanova (1952).Kesten's periodic moves (he lived in New York, in Munich, in Switzerland and for many years in Rome) did not sever his links with Germany. Distance and seniority gave him a special status as Germany, and German literature in particular, emerged from the ruins. In the Group 47, by far most influential grouping of writers and critics in the 1950s and early 1960s, he was regarded as \"the Old Master\", \"the kindly, almost paternal mentor\". He embodied, it seemed, a continuity reaching back into the far-distant 1920s. The recognition was there – Kesten received many prizes and acted as President of the West German PEN from 1972 to 1976.".
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