Fred Uhlman

Fred Uhlman (born the January 19th 1901 with Stuttgart, Germany, died with London in April 1985) is a writer and British painter of German origin.

Biography

The childhood of Fred Uhlman will have been adventurous, it is the least which one can about it say. In its youth, he attended the college Eberhard Ludwig of Stuttgart. Its preferred matters were French, German, the history and mathematics. He began from the studies of right in 1927 to the university of Tübingen, then with Freiburg and Munich; he became lawyer.

He could not maintain his cabinet in Archivstrasse with Stuttgart, his activities with SPD (Left social democrat Germany), and left his country for Paris on March 24th, 1933, thus escaping the fate which awaited many Jews. In Paris, it was devoted to various occupations: creation of a cinema for children, journalism, sale of tables, trades of tropical fish. It is there too that it began a career from painter.

In March 1936, its stay with Tossa del Mar in Spain coincided with the beginning of the civil war but it had time to meet there his future wife, Diana, girl of Sir Henry Page Croft, member of the British Parliament. It was then obliged to leave Spain for the the United Kingdom in 1938, country of which it knew neither the language, nor habits.

Over there, it installed the Committee of the taken refuge Artists, a center anti-nazi for the refugees and the combatants of Spain, but a few months later, whereas his wife awaited its first child, it was made prisoner with the island of Man by the British in June 1940, because considered as suspect, being of German origin; this is why it was locked up with the camp of Hutchinson, where the internees spent their time to paint or listening to conferences. But, it is there too that it could continue to exert its old passion, painting. Fred Uhlman testifies:

“They were not the most intelligent men who held out best, but those with the intelligence quotient low. For some it was good time, since all was gotten to them: asylum, food, company and they were with the shelter of the air raids. Sat on the lawn, they played charts of the morning at the evening, perfectly happy…”

Released, Fred Uhlman will become a British and a famous painter. He dies in London in April 1985. He will dedicate to his book the friend found to Paul and Millicent Bloomfield.

Works

1970 : Under the moon and the stars
1971: the friend found (foreword of Arthur Koestler), original title Meeting appeared in English in 1971. the friend found will be carried to the screen in 1988 by Jerry Schatzberg with Jason Robards, Christien Anholt.
1985 : It makes beautiful in Paris today, appeared in the United Kingdom in 1960 pennies the title The Making off year Englishman
1986: the letter of Conrad followed No resurrection please

Bond

Apostrophes, March 8th, 1985, on the site of the INA

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