Carl Amery (9 April 1922 – 24 May 2005), the pen name of Christian Anton Mayer, was a German writer and environmental activist.
[1] Son of art historian Anton Mayer-Pfannholz, in his childhood he predominantly lived in Passau and Freising.
In 1958, now a member of the writers' association Gruppe 47, his novel Die große Deutschlandtour established his reputation as a satirist.
[2] In 1963 his publications Die Kapitulation oder Deutscher Katholizismus heute and Das Ende der Vorsehung.
[3] Two further novels address fantasy and bavarian spirituality: Die Wallfahrer (1986) and Geheimnis der Krypta (1990).
[3] In his view, Amery's "entertaining use of the mechanism of time travel, his play with fiction and historical reality, his colourful juxtaposition of competing genre forms and linguistic registers, and his idiosyncratic use of metaphor, allusion and quotation belie a deeply serious underlying message.
[1] From 1985 onwards his collected works were published as single releases by List Verlag [de] of Munich.