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Carl Amery
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Carl Amery (9 April 1922 – 24 May 2005), the pen name of Christian Anton Mayer, was a German writer and environmental activist. Born in Munich, he studied at the University of Munich. He was a participant of Gruppe 47. He died in Munich.
Amery won the Deutscher Fantasy Preis in 1996.
Son of art historian Anton Mayer-Pfannholz, in his childhood he predominantly lived in Passau and Freising. At Passau he attended the Humanistisches Gymnasium Passau, at Freising the Dom-Gymnasium. Both cities left traces in his work. Passau appears in his novels Der Wettbewerb and Der Untergang der Stadt Passau. Freising appears in his novel Das Geheimnis der Krypta. He was a scholarship student of Stiftung Maximilianeum and studied Philology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and at Catholic University of America.
He was drafted into the army in 1941. In 1943 he became a prisoner of war in the Tunisian campaign. He returned to Munich in 1946 and resumed his studies in linguistics and literary criticism. He began to write, starting with short stories under the name Chris Mayer. Then he choose the pseudonymous Carl Amery, Amery being an anagram of Mayer.
He died of emphysema on May 24, 2005 and was buried at Ostfriedhof (Munich) May 30, 2005.
In 1954 Amery's first novel Der Wettbewerb was published. In 1958, now a member of the writers' association Gruppe 47, his novel Die große Deutschlandtour established his reputation as a satirist.
In 1963 his publications Die Kapitulation oder Deutscher Katholizismus heute and Das Ende der Vorsehung. Die gnadenlosen Folgen des Christentums revealed another side of his work. He allotted the global ecocide to Christianity and that predestined him as thought leader of political ecology. Further publications, particularly Die ökologische Chance, and his personal engagement emphasised this leadership. He was an early member of Alliance 90/The Greens, and in 1980 founded the independent E. F. Schumacher society.
From 1967 to 1971 he was the director of the Munich Municipal Library Münchner Stadtbibliothek.
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