Heinrich Böll

Heinrich Theodor Böll (Cologne, 21 december 1917 - Kreuzau, July 16, 1985) was one of Germany's most important writers of after the Second World War.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == Böll was born as the son of a joiner of predominantly Church furniture and grew up in a Liberal, Catholic and pacifist family. He again refused to join the Hitler Youth during the 1930s. The nazi's were in power and Böll was repeatedly startled by the radical way in which artists and writers were persecuted and silenced. The shocking scenes of book burning would inquisitionele him his life for a long time and constantly feed his pursuit of freedom of expression.
 * 2 Bibliography
 * 3 appeared after death
 * 4 Translations
 * 5 see also
 * 6 References

He first worked in a bookstore and then studied German at the University of Cologne. He served for the Wehrmacht and fought in Netherlands. [1]  France, Romania,Hungary and the Soviet Union. He was wounded four times and was eventually captured by American soldiers in april 1945. He was sent to a prison camp. Böll was yet to regularly for his injuries (he had lost all his toes, among others, by the cold) in to be hospitalized.

After the war he returned to Cologne, went there to study German studies — in the meantime, he came to the costs as a Carpenter — and became official. And he began to write. From 1951, his pen life could really Böll as author and as a translator. He would continue to live in his hometown, after a relatively short stay in Ireland not to spoken (Irisches Tagebuch-1957).

His first novel, Der Zug war pünktlich, was published in 1949. It is the strong visionary story of the young soldier, who with the daily train load cannon fodder from the Ruhr area to the eastern front, in the clammy certainty that he leaves a certain death treint. Many novels, short stories, radio plays and essays followed. In 1972 the Böll received Nobel Prize in literature, making him the first German since Nelly Sachs in 1966, that received this award. His work has been translated in more than 30 languages and he is one of Germany's most read writers.

His most well-known works are undeniably Billard um halb zehnthe hopeless, then also Ansichten eines Clowns from ' 63 in which he, through a rebellious head figure, thoroughly does away with all kinds of civil pose with conservative values as family, State and Church. Bölls relationship with the Catholic Church has always been very problematic. Although he was faithful, he rejected the infallibility of the Pope. In addition, he was very suspicious of the official Church and its authorities, which he blamed to have no resistance offered by the (Nazi) regime, quite the contrary, and therefore it deemed responsible for the German society and human problems in a miserableGruppenbild mit DameFinally, in which he all sorts of ambitious characters, expose the buttocks clean and arrivisten with notability burgerman move.

Right after the war began Böll processing the memories of that time. He wrote about the effect – material and psychological – that the war had had on the lives of ordinary people. They were the heroes of the story in his work. The bad guys were authoritarian figures; such as Government, business and the Church. He made them ridiculous, sometimes humorous tone, sometimes on very bilious way. His subjects were mainly the lack of courage, the egocentric mentality and the abuse of power by these authorities. His accessible style made him favourite for the German textbooks. His work is called "Trümmerliteratur –»".

Böll became very influenced by the nazi-entry into his city: Cologne, from which the Nazis banned him. He was also very shocked by the destruction of the city by Allied bombing. In his life he maintained numerous relations with the citizens of Cologne, rich or poor. When he once again in a hospital, the sisters complained about the "laaggeklasseerden" who came to visit their friend Heinrich Böll.

He was once president of the International p.e.n. He travelled extensively as a representative of a new non-nazi Germany. His appearance and attitude were a huge contrast with the bossy and aggressive type of German during the Third Reich. Böll was particularly successful in Eastern Europe, by the alleged dark side of capitalism in his books. In the Soviet Union were sold millions of his books. [2]  In 1967, he received the Georg-Büchner-Preis. Böll can be counted among the great German writers after 1945. His novels belong to the world literature.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Heinrich Böll died in 1985. The memory of him is still alive, among other things in the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation and the Heinrich-Böll-special archive in the library of Cologne.However, a large part of the literary legacy is damaged, when the building collapsed in March 2009. ==Bibliography<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Appeared after death<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Translations<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * 1949: Der Zug war pünktlich
 * 1950: Wanderer, kommst du nach Spa
 * 1951: Which schwarzen Schafe
 * Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit 1951:
 * 1951: Wo warst du, Adam?
 * 1952 That Waage der Baleks :
 * Und sagte kein einziges Wort 1953:
 * Haus ohne Hüter 1954:
 * Das Brot der frühen Jahre 1955:
 * 1957: Irisches Tagebuch
 * 1957: That Spurlosen
 * 1958: Doktor Murkes gesammelts Schweigen
 * Billard um halb zehn 1959:
 * 1962: Ein swallow it Erde
 * Ansichten eines Clowns 1963:
 * zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral Anecdote 1963:
 * 1964: Entfernung von der Truppe
 * Ende einer Dienstfahrt 1966:
 * Gruppenbild mit Dame 1971:
 * 1974: Ehre der Katharina Blum Who lost
 * 1979: Du und andere Erzählungen fährst zu oft nach Heidelberg
 * 1979: Fürsorgliche Belagerung
 * 1981: Was soll aus dem Jungen bloß were?
 * 1982: Vermintes Gelände
 * 1982: Das Vermächtnis
 * 1983: frühe und andere Erzählungen That Verwundung
 * Frauen vor Flusslandschaft 1985:
 * 1986: The Stories of Heinrich Böll (American Edition)
 * 1992: Der Engel schwieg
 * 1995: Der Hund blasse (unpublished stories from 1937 and 1946 – 1952)
 * 2002: Kreuz ohne Liebe (written in 1946 – 1947)
 * 2011: The Collected Stories (reprints of translations)