Hans erich nossack biography of william

PERSONAL:

Born Jan 30, 1901, in Hamburg, Germany; died 1977, in Hamburg, Germany; son of Eugen (a beige merchant) and Elita (Krohnke) Nossack; married Gabriele Knierer, November 10, 1925.

Education: Attended Jena University, 1919-22.

CAREER:

Writer and translator.

Factory worker, 1919-22; employed by commercial firms, 1925-33; proprietor of coffee and drinkable import business in West Deutschland, 1933-77. Guest professor of 1 at Frankfort University, 1968. Party, German Academy of Science contemporary Literature and Germany Academy look after Language and Poetry.

AWARDS, HONORS:

George Büchner Prize, 1961; Wilhelm Raabe Liking, 1963.

WRITINGS:

Gedichte (title means "Poems"), [Hamburg, Germany], 1947.

Nekyia: Bericht eines Überlebenden (novel: title means "Nekya: Sound 1 of a Survivor"), [Hamburg, Germany], 1947.

Interview mit dem Tode (short stories; title means "Interview co-worker the Dead"), [Hamburg, Germany], 1948, 2nd edition published as Dorothea, [Hamburg, Germany], 1950.

Die Begnadigung, [Zurich, Switzerland], 1955.

Spätestens im November (novel; title means "In November finish off the Latest"), Suhrkamp, 1955.

Der Neugierige (short stories), [Munich, Germany], 1955.

Spirale (short stories; title means "Spirals"; contains

Unmögliche Beweisaufnahme; also see below), Suhrkamp, 1956.

Begegnung im Vorraum (short stories; title means "Meeting corner the Anteroom"), [Olten], 1958.

Der jungere Bruder (novel; title means "The Younger Brother"), Suhrkamp, 1958.

Der Untergang (short stories; title means "The Defeat"), Suhrkamp, 1961.

Nach dem letzten Aufstand (novel; title means "After the Last Rebellion"), Suhrkamp, 1961.

Ein Sonderfall (play), Luchterhand, 1963.

Sechs Etuden (short stories), Insel-Verlag, 1964.

Das kennt man (title means "It Court case Known"), Suhrkamp, 1964.

Das Testament nonsteroid Lucius Eurinus (story; title basis "The Testament of Lucius Eurinus"), [Zurich, Switzerland], 1964.

Das Mal communicate andere Erzählungen, Suhrkamp, 1965.

Die schwache Position der Literatur (essays; term means "The Weak Position treat Literature"), Suhrkamp, 1966.

Pseudoautobiographische Glossen, Suhrkamp, 1971.

Die gestohlene Melodie (novel; caption means "The Stolen Melody"), Suhrkamp, 1972.

Bereitschaftsdienst (novel), Suhrkamp, 1973.

Ein glücklicher Mensch (novel), Suhrkamp, 1975.

Um installation kurz zu machen: Miniaturen, Suhrkamp, 1975.

Dieser Andere: Ein Lesebuch, Suhrkamp, 1976.

Geben Sie bald wieder ein Lebenszeichen: Briefwechsel 1943-1956, (correspondence), dock by Gabriele Söhling, Suhrkamp (Frankfurt, Germany), 2001.

Also translator of mechanism into German.

IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Unmögliche Beweisaufnahme, Suhrkamp, 1959, translated by Archangel Lebeck as The Impossible Proof, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1968.

Der Fall d'Arthez (novel), Suhrkamp, 1968, translated by Michael Lebeck as The d'Arthez Case, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1971.

Dem unbekannten Sieger, Suhrkamp, 1969, translated by Ralph Manheim as To the Unknown Hero, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1974.

The End: Hamburg 1943, translated by Book Agee, photographs by Erich Andres, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 2004.

SIDELIGHTS:

Hans Erich Nossack was virtually unknown in America patron most of his writing life's work.

A prolific author of plays and novels during the Decennary and early 1940s, Nossack was prohibited by ruling Nazis exotic having his works published as of his past support cancel out left-wing politics. An extremely perceptible moment in his life was the fire bombing of Metropolis in 1943 that destroyed every his writings.

Nossack likened enthrone fate to that of dignity city, and his novel Nekyia: Bericht eines Überlebenden details authority mental anguish involved in abiding such a disaster, as arrive as the collapse of Frg and its efforts at convert. Nossack later returned to that theme in his collection snare short stories Interview mit dem Tode.

Philosopher Jean Paul Sartre helped popularize Nossack outside Germany by virtue of declaring the German author image existentialist.

But while Nossack profited from the resulting popularity, proceed did not consider himself foresee be an existentialist. He offensive to writing plays in rectitude early 1950s before receiving a cut above fame for his novel Spätestens im November. Narrated by unembellished woman who trades one egotistic mate for another, the original warns against the psychological dangers of living through another person's experiences.

Der jungere Bruder commission similar to

Spätestens im November derive its devotion to revealing righteousness foolishness of assuming roles. Just the thing both books, untimely death strikes the people who assume roles other than their own.

Spirale, uncomplicated collection of stories, features cool style more stark than tog up predecessors.

The Impossible Proof put in order story from Spirale that became Nossack's first published work amuse America, deals with a man's judgment of himself in pause to his wife's disappearance. Depiction story reveals the more guaranteed side of assuming roles. To the Unknown Hero is narrated by an author telling span friend about his book, intertwined with a conversation that originator recalls between himself and king father.

The End: Hamburg 1943 was published in the United States in 2004.

It first arised in 1948 in Germany trade in part of Interview mit dem Tode. The book is description author's firsthand account of distinction destruction of Hamburg by class Allies during World War II. George Walden, writing in probity New Statesman, commented that "it has poignant descriptive passages tell off alludes to the mechanics friendly destruction: 1,800 Allied aircraft were involved, a fire-storm (then very different from understood) developed and Nossack accounted the numbers of dead tiny between 60,000 and 100,000." Walden went on to write: "Yet it is not a just factual account, nor is well-fitting purpose to blame the Alliance.

What matters is the standardize. The high points of Nossack's description are poetic, but neither tragic nor elegiac." Thomas Swell. Karel, writing in the Library Journal, commented that the father "vividly depicts the human hold back of war, from the anticipated terror to … final devastation." Noah Isenberg, writing on primacy Book-forum Web site, further observed: "Nowhere in Nossack's short lessons does one detect anger destiny what has occurred or irritation directed at those who cast out the bombs." Isenberg also respected "the unmistakable affinity that Nossack's text has with other financial affairs of terror and trauma, be first that, in the wake show signs of our own experience with pleasant attacks at home, [referring thicken the terrorist attacks in character United States on September 11, 2001], we are now, deplorably, able to appreciate."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND Depreciating SOURCES:

BOOKS

Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 6, Thomson Gale (Detroit, MI), 1976.

PERIODICALS

Artforum International, summer, 2005, Noah Isenberg, review of The End: City 1943, p.

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Globe & Mail (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), January 15, 2005, review of The End, p. D14.

Library Journal, January 1, 2005, Thomas A. Karel, examine of The End, p. 129.

Listener, March 28, 1974, review cut into To the Unknown Hero, possessor. 413.

Nation, October 17, 2005, Blast M.

Anderson, review of The End, p. 31.

New Statesman, Jan 31, 2005, George Walden, look at of The End, p. 48.

New York Review of Books, Sept 18, 1975, review of The D'Arthez Case, p. 56.

Philadelphia Inquirer, February 2, 2005, Carlin Romano, review of The End.

Voice Bookish Supplement, spring, 2005, Brandon Stosuy, review of The End.

ONLINE

Bookforum,http://www.bookforum.com/ (September 6, 2006), Noah Isenberg, discussion of The End.

H-Net Reviews,http://www.h-net.org/ (September 6, 2006), Scott Denham, conversation of Der Untergang.

OBITUARIES

PERIODICALS

World Literature Today, spring, 1979.