Albert Drach

Albert Drach (1902-1995), born in Vienna into a Jewish family, a doctor of law, was a lawyer in Mödling, where he kept his practice until 1984; he wrote his narratives in the language of the court registry. He fled at the end of 1938 through Yugoslavia and Italy to France, passed through several internment camps and was deported to Rivesaltes, from which he emerged by having the initials of his religious community read as “of Catholic faith”; he then hid in a village in the Alpes-Maritimes until the end of the war. Returning in 1947, he received the Büchner Prize in 1988, at the age of eighty-six.

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• NovelDas große Protokoll gegen ZwetschkenbaumAlbert Drach · 1964not translated into EnglishLiterature