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Writer was one of the last of the âDunera Boysâ Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Klaus Neumann Save Normal text size WALTER KAUFMANN: 1924 - 2021 A Jew in Nazi Germany, an enemy alien in wartime England, a communist in Robert Menziesâ Australia, an Australian in the German Democratic Republic, and somebody with a GDR identity in reunified Germany: throughout his life, the writer Walter Kaufmann, who died in Berlin on April 15, did not belong. Kaufmann was born Sally Jizchak Schmeidler on January 19, 1924 in Berlinâs Scheunenviertel, a neighbourhood dominated by Jewish migrants from eastern Europe. His mother Rachela, originally from Poland, was among them. Aged 17 when Jizchak was born, she was working as a shop assistant at a department store. When Jizchak was three, she gave him up for adoption. ....
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In a few months, pandemic permitting, Karin Kaper and Dirk Szuszies’s recently completed feature-length documentary Walter Kaufmann: Welch ein Leben! (Walter Kaufmann: What a Life!) will hit cinemas in Germany. But its subject, a German with an Australian passport, won’t be there for the film’s opening night. He died in Berlin on 15 April. Kaufmann had turned ninety-seven in January. Virtually anybody who reaches such a ripe old age has led a life worth making into a film or writing about, for that matter. Kaufmann’s story, that of a refugee from Nazi Germany who became an Australian writer and then moved to the old East Germany, was particularly rich. ....