Zwei Hoerspiele also see below; radio plays; Bilanz first produced, ; translation of Klopfzeichen produced as The Knocking , British Broadcasting Corp. Zum Tee bei Dr. Hoerspiele radio plays , Deutscher Taschenbuch Munich, Germany , Ein Tag wie sonst: Schwierigkeiten mit der Bruederlichkeit: Literarische Schriften selection of literary essays and speeches from — , Deutscher Taschenbuch Munich, Germany , Gefahren von falschen Bruedern: Politische Schriften selection of political essays and speeches from — , Deutscher Taschenbuch Munich, Germany , Was soll aus dem Jungen bloss werden?
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Fromm Osnabruech, Germany , Der Lorbeer ist immer noch bitter: Ausblick auf die achtziger jahre , Rowohlt Reinbek bei Hamburg, Germany , Warum haben wir aufeinander geschossen? Briefe aus dem Rheinland: Die Faehigkeit zu trauern: Schriften und Reden, —85 , Lamuv Gottingen, Germany , Die Hoffnung is wie ein wildes Tier: Also author of text for photography books, including several by Hargeshiemer.
Also editor of several books. Contributor to other books, including anthologies.
Whatever the genre—novel, story, satire, play, poem, or essay—the dominant force of the work was always the author's Christian ethics. He was against war, militarism, and all hypocrisy in politics, religion, and human relations. He excoriated the opportunism of Nazis who became overnight democrats after , and he refused to let Germans forget their recent past.
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He railed against the Catholic church, of which he was a member, for its cooperation in German rearmament and its role in the restoration of German capitalism. He pointed out repeatedly in the s and s the dangers of the Cold War. In the s, his practical idealism led him to support the newly formed Green party , a pro-environmental, anti-nuclear group critical of capi-talist policies. He was consistently active in the peace movement throughout the postwar era and in the s demonstrated against the deployment of Pershing II's and cruise missiles on German soil.
In all the Eastern European countries he was read and admired. He was a best-selling author in East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and especially in the Soviet Union , where sales of his books totaled roughly three million copies during his lifetime.
The New York Times quoted the words of his Nobel Prize citation, praising him for his contribution "to the renewal of German literature. By the inflation caused by Germany's defeat had ravaged the German population worse than the war had done. The money had to be spent immediately because it would be without purchasing power the next day.
The stock market crash of brought the depression and the unemployment of the s, which caused even more suffering. The fear of social turmoil became part of the psyche of every German.
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Economic insecurity, the concern for the next meal and a place to stay became the daily worry of a generation. The security of love, the values of food and drink, the luxury of a cigarette things often taken for granted in an affluent world, especially in prosperous, modern West Germany pervade his work. But his training was interrupted during the winter of — by induction into the labor service. After completion of this semimilitary obligation, he enrolled briefly as a student at the University of Cologne where he intended to study philology.
But before he could really call himself a student, three months before the Second World War started, he was drafted into the army. In the course of the next six years, he served as an infantryman on the western front in France and on the eastern front in Russia and in other Eastern European countries as the German army retreated before the Russian forces. Although it was customary for soldiers with his education to be officers, his hatred of the war and army life prevented him from cooperating with the military.
At the risk of court martial and summary execution, he frequently forged papers to see his family or, after his marriage to Annemarie Cech in , to visit his wife in the Rhineland. After his release, he immediately returned to Cologne, which lay eighty percent in ruins, to begin his life as a writer. That style can be described as a kind of Hemingwayesque minimalism—simple words in simple sentences—conveying a plainness appropriate to the Germany of , a time when the expression of truth, to be believable again, had to possess the certainty and simplicity of a mathematical statement, like two plus two equals four.
The opening lines of any of the stories written before illustrate the style. In these first stories began to appear in various periodicals. The subject matter of these works is the war and the return of soldiers to a homeland morally impoverished and physically destroyed.
In these tales the only haven from despair is love, discovered in momentary encounters between soldiers and women on the periphery of the war. And Where Were You, Adam? While they differ from one another in structure, they, like the shorter works, share a fatalism that death is bigger than life and proclaim a Christian optimism that heavenly consolation is greater than suffering. Thus the war narratives acknowledge that God is still in his heaven, although all is not right with the world.
But war is no true adventure; it is only a substitute for adventure. War is a disease just like typhus. He even sees a kind of "realism" in this political vagueness because, as he says, "war is not conducive to clear thinking. A dichotomous view of World War II is understandable and even accurate for someone who was himself an anti-fascist and a sufferer of twelve years of oppression. Still, the result of the dichotomy is that the war stories cannot reveal truly what the war was about because the limited categories of suffering innocents and brutal henchmen are too unrefined to do the job.
War is not nature's making; it is made by people who have political and economic interests. A humorous, bizarre fantasy characterizes these satires of developing West German society. In Christmas Every Day a tyrannical old aunt demands daily holidays to avoid confronting the guilt of the Hitler years. In "Murke's Collected Silences" a Ph. In "The Thrower Away" a fanatical time-study expert makes a place for himself in the business world by systematically destroying junk mail, the surplus production of the advertising industry.
These stories have garnered high critical acclaim because they take to task the shortcomings of all Western democracies even though they are grounded in West German economic and political reality. For example, in Ansichten eines Clowns The Clown , the scene of the penniless clown pantomiming his blindness during the visit of his millionaire industrialist father contains the essence of the novel's political content, and in Entfernung von der Truppe "Absent without Leave" , the narrator's account of his latrine duty in World War II reveals his total alienation from society.
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