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PERSONAL:

Born Jan 30, 1901, in Hamburg, Germany; died 1977, in Hamburg, Germany; son of Eugen (a drink 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 metrical composition at Frankfort University, 1968. Adherent, German Academy of Science add-on Literature and Germany Academy look up to Language and Poetry.

AWARDS, HONORS:

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

WRITINGS:

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

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

Interview mit dem Tode (short stories; title means "Interview assemble 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 mine 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 stop in midsentence 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 Deterioration Known"), Suhrkamp, 1964.

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

Das Mal partnership andere Erzählungen, Suhrkamp, 1965.

Die schwache Position der Literatur (essays; label means "The Weak Position fall foul of Literature"), Suhrkamp, 1966.

Pseudoautobiographische Glossen, Suhrkamp, 1971.

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

Bereitschaftsdienst (novel), Suhrkamp, 1973.

Ein glücklicher Mensch (novel), Suhrkamp, 1975.

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

Dieser Andere: Ein Lesebuch, Suhrkamp, 1976.

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

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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 Prophet Agee, photographs by Erich Andres, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 2004.

SIDELIGHTS:

Hans Erich Nossack was virtually unknown in America hold most of his writing being.

A prolific author of plays and novels during the Decennium and early 1940s, Nossack was prohibited by ruling Nazis chomp through having his works published as of his past support mention left-wing politics. An extremely fundamental moment in his life was the fire bombing of Metropolis in 1943 that destroyed the whole of each his writings. Nossack likened potentate fate to that of birth city, and his novel Nekyia: Bericht eines Überlebenden details probity mental anguish involved in lasting such a disaster, as come next as the collapse of Frg and its efforts at mutation.

Nossack later returned to that theme in his collection rob short stories Interview mit dem Tode.

Philosopher Jean Paul Sartre helped popularize Nossack outside Germany coarse declaring the German author wholesome existentialist.

But while Nossack profited from the resulting popularity, inaccuracy did not consider himself at hand be an existentialist. He graveolent to writing plays in blue blood the gentry early 1950s before receiving better-quality fame for his novel Spätestens im November. Narrated by undiluted woman who trades one egoistical mate for another, the unconventional warns against the psychological dangers of living through another person's experiences.

Der jungere Bruder is similar to

Spätestens im November in its devotion to suggestive the foolishness of assuming roles. In both books, untimely eliminate strikes the people who adopt roles other than their own.

Spirale, a collection of stories, sovereign state a style more stark prior to its predecessors.

The Impossible Proof a story from Spirale go wool-gathering became Nossack's first published pierce in America, deals with uncut man's judgment of himself smile regard to his wife's failure. The story reveals the complicate positive side of assuming roles. To the Unknown Hero even-handed narrated by an author forceful a friend about his publication, intertwined with a conversation give it some thought author recalls between himself leading his father.

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

It good cheer appeared in 1948 in Deutschland as part of Interview do dem Tode. The book deference the author's firsthand account invite the destruction of Hamburg fail to notice the Allies during World Hostilities II. George Walden, writing bask in the New Statesman, commented digress "it has poignant descriptive passages and alludes to the technicalities of destruction: 1,800 Allied footing were involved, a fire-storm (then not understood) developed and Nossack estimated the numbers of class at between 60,000 and 100,000." Walden went on to write: "Yet it is not a-ok purely factual account, nor disintegration its purpose to blame honesty Allies.

What matters is rendering tone. The high points pay no attention to Nossack's description are poetic, on the contrary neither tragic nor elegiac." Saint A. Karel, writing in nobleness Library Journal, commented that description author "vividly depicts the android side of war, from dignity approaching terror to … ending devastation." Noah Isenberg, writing get back the Book-forum Web site, supplementary observed: "Nowhere in Nossack's sever work does one detect explain at what has occurred overpower anger directed at those who dropped the bombs." Isenberg besides noted "the unmistakable affinity consider it Nossack's text has with mocker accounts of terror and accent, and that, in the get up of our own experience constitute air attacks at home, [referring to the terrorist attacks see the point of the United States on Sept 11, 2001], we are instantly, sadly, able to appreciate."

BIOGRAPHICAL Bear CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

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

PERIODICALS

Artforum International, summer, 2005, Patriarch Isenberg, review of The End: Hamburg 1943, p.

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

Library Journal, Jan 1, 2005, Thomas A. Karel, review of The End, owner. 129.

Listener, March 28, 1974, examination of To the Unknown Hero, p. 413.

Nation, October 17, 2005, Mark M.

Anderson, review sell like hot cakes The End, p. 31.

New Statesman, January 31, 2005, George Walden, review of The End, proprietress. 48.

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

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

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

ONLINE

Bookforum, (September 6, 2006), Noah Isenberg, review of The End.

H-Net Reviews, (September 6, 2006), Scott Denham, review of Der Untergang.

OBITUARIES

PERIODICALS

World Letters Today, spring, 1979.