Name Gabriel Laub Role Journalist | Books Double-barreled Attack | |
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Died February 3, 1998, Hamburg, Germany | ||
Gabriel Laub (24 October 1928 in Bochnia, Poland – 3 February 1998 in Hamburg, Germany) was a Czech- and German-speaking journalist, political satirist and aphorism writer.
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Personal life
Laub grew up in Kraków. Due to his Jewish heritage, he fled with his parents during the invasion of Poland in 1939. They fled to the Soviet Union but were interned for sixteen months in what is now Uzbekistan. After World War II he moved to Prague where he studied journalism and worked as an editor and writer until 1968. Following the defeat of the Prague Spring reforms, he fled to Hamburg. There he published his collections of aphorisms in German.
He received numerous awards including the 1971 short story prize given by the city of Arnsberg and the 1991 Irmgard-Heilmann Prize.
Laub was buried in Israel.