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Alle Romane: Der Fuchs im Hühnerstall - Mein Kamm - Der Glückspilz

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Das gesamte Romanwek des weltberühmten Schriftstellers in einem BandDie Jubiläumsausgabe ist in besonderer Weise ein Schlüssel zum Verständnis des Menschen Ephraim Kishon, beginnend mit "Der Fuchs im Hühnerstall", der ursprünglich aus der Begegnung Ephraim Kishons mit dem neuen Staatsgebilde Israel entstand, eine bis heute gültige Satire über das Versagen der Demokratie."Mein Kamm" hingegen spiegelt Kishons persönliche Erfahrung mit der unverständlichsten Unmenschlichkeit des letzten Jahrhunderts. Voll Sarkasmus und Humor führt uns Ephraim Kishon , wie einst Charlie Chaplin, zu einer Erkenntnis der Unmenschlichkeit der Tyrannei.Auch "Der Glückspilz" schließlich, Kishons jüngstes Werk, hat viel mit dem berühmten Satiriker selbst zu tun. Der brilliante Roman ist eine überraschende Bilanz all jener Lebenserfahrungen, die Kishon bisher für sich behielt, erzählt vom Spießrutenlauf zum Erfolg, von übergeschnappten Medien und dem unvermeidlichen Debakel ebenso unvermeidlicher Dreiecksgeschichten.Seine Romane zeigen Ephraim Kishon von seiner ursprünglichsten, aber auch von einer ganz anderen Seite. Bücher von einer Dimension, die über den Augenblick des Lachens hinausgeht, aber ihre satirische Brillanz und treffende Komik nie verliert.

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Ephraim Kishon

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Ephraim Kishon (Hebrew: אפרים קישון‎) was an Israeli writer, satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director.

Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, as Ferenc Hoffmann (Hungarian Hoffmann Ferenc), Kishon studied sculpture and painting, and then began publishing humorous essays and writing for the stage.

During World War II the Nazis imprisoned him in several concentration camps. At one camp his chess talent helped him survive as the camp commandant was looking for an opponent. In another camp the Germans lined up the inmates shooting every tenth person, passing him by. He later wrote in his book The Scapegoat, "They made a mistake—they left one satirist alive." He managed to escape while being transported to the Sobibor death camp in Poland, and hid the remainder of the war disguised as "Stanko Andras", a Slovakian laborer.

After 1945 he changed his surname from Hoffmann to Kishont to disguise his Jewish heritage and returned to Hungary to study art and publish humorous plays. He immigrated to Israel in 1949 to escape the Communist regime, and an immigration officer gave him the name Ephraim Kishon.

His first marriage, in 1946 to Eva (Chawa) Klamer, ended in divorce. In 1959, he married his second wife Sara (née Lipovitz), who died in 2002. In 2003, he married the Austrian writer Lisa Witasek. He had three children: Raphael (b. 1957), Amir (b. 1963), and Renana (b. 1968).

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