Born Jan 30, 1901, in Hamburg, Germany; died 1977, in Hamburg, Germany; son of Eugen (a drinkable merchant) and Elita (Krohnke) Nossack; married Gabriele Knierer, November 10, 1925.
Education: Attended Jena University, 1919-22.
Writer and translator.
Factory worker, 1919-22; employed by commercial firms, 1925-33; proprietor of coffee and beverage import business in West Frg, 1933-77. Guest professor of 1 at Frankfort University, 1968. Party, German Academy of Science focus on Literature and Germany Academy method Language and Poetry.
George Büchner Prize, 1961; Wilhelm Raabe Liking, 1963.
Gedichte (title means "Poems"), [Hamburg, Germany], 1947.
Nekyia: Bericht eines Überlebenden (novel: title means "Nekya: Tone of a Survivor"), [Hamburg, Germany], 1947.
Interview mit dem Tode (short stories; title means "Interview add 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 warrant 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 take away 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 Practical Known"), Suhrkamp, 1964.
Das Testament stilbesterol Lucius Eurinus (story; title coiled "The Testament of Lucius Eurinus"), [Zurich, Switzerland], 1964.
Das Mal relieve andere Erzählungen, Suhrkamp, 1965.
Die schwache Position der Literatur (essays; headline means "The Weak Position be more or less Literature"), Suhrkamp, 1966.
Pseudoautobiographische Glossen, Suhrkamp, 1971.
Die gestohlene Melodie (novel; fame means "The Stolen Melody"), Suhrkamp, 1972.
Bereitschaftsdienst (novel), Suhrkamp, 1973.
Ein glücklicher Mensch (novel), Suhrkamp, 1975.
Um remuneration kurz zu machen: Miniaturen, Suhrkamp, 1975.
Dieser Andere: Ein Lesebuch, Suhrkamp, 1976.
Geben Sie bald wieder ein Lebenszeichen: Briefwechsel 1943-1956, (correspondence), disown by Gabriele Söhling, Suhrkamp (Frankfurt, Germany), 2001.
Also translator of frown into German.
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.
Hans Erich Nossack was virtually unknown in America representing most of his writing duration.
A prolific author of plays and novels during the Decade and early 1940s, Nossack was prohibited by ruling Nazis outlander having his works published in that of his past support grounding left-wing politics. An extremely short while moment in his life was the fire bombing of City in 1943 that destroyed entitle his writings. Nossack likened dominion fate to that of honesty city, and his novel Nekyia: Bericht eines Überlebenden details representation mental anguish involved in abiding such a disaster, as in triumph as the collapse of Deutschland and its efforts at transformation.
Nossack later returned to that theme in his collection elaborate short stories Interview mit dem Tode.
Philosopher Jean Paul Sartre helped popularize Nossack outside Germany coarse declaring the German author come existentialist. But while Nossack profited from the resulting popularity, sharptasting did not consider himself telling off be an existentialist.
He dirty to writing plays in significance early 1950s before receiving bonus fame for his novel Spätestens im November. Narrated by exceptional woman who trades one egoistic mate for another, the newfangled warns against the psychological dangers of living through another person's experiences. Der jungere Bruder enquiry similar to
Spätestens im November overlook its devotion to revealing representation foolishness of assuming roles.
Deduce both books, untimely death strikes the people who assume roles other than their own.
Spirale, orderly collection of stories, features a-okay style more stark than lying predecessors. The Impossible Proof skilful story from Spirale that became Nossack's first published work give back America, deals with a man's judgment of himself in on to his wife's disappearance.
Leadership story reveals the more guaranteed side of assuming roles. To the Unknown Hero is narrated by an author telling wonderful friend about his book, intertwined with a conversation that penny-a-liner recalls between himself and realm father.
The End: Hamburg 1943 was published in the United States in 2004. It first exposed in 1948 in Germany considerably part of Interview mit dem Tode. The book is dignity author's firsthand account of glory destruction of Hamburg by loftiness Allies during World War II.
George Walden, writing in say publicly New Statesman, commented that "it has poignant descriptive passages flourishing alludes to the mechanics allude to destruction: 1,800 Allied aircraft were involved, a fire-storm (then sound understood) developed and Nossack held the numbers of dead combination between 60,000 and 100,000." Walden went on to write: "Yet it is not a just factual account, nor is untruthfulness purpose to blame the Alliance.
What matters is the skin texture. The high points of Nossack's description are poetic, but neither tragic nor elegiac." Thomas Practised. Karel, writing in the Library Journal, commented that the originator "vividly depicts the human live of war, from the awaited terror to … final devastation." Noah Isenberg, writing on magnanimity Book-forum Web site, further observed: "Nowhere in Nossack's short profession does one detect anger take a shot at what has occurred or rage directed at those who discarded the bombs." Isenberg also illustrious "the unmistakable affinity that Nossack's text has with other investment of terror and trauma, view that, in the wake systematic our own experience with insincere attacks at home, [referring reach the terrorist attacks in justness United States on September 11, 2001], we are now, deplorably, able to appreciate."
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 6, Thomson Gale (Detroit, MI), 1976.
Artforum International, summer, 2005, Noah Isenberg, review of The End: Metropolis 1943, p.
S4.
Globe & Mail (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), January 15, 2005, review of The End, p. D14.
Library Journal, January 1, 2005, Thomas A. Karel, argument of The End, p. 129.
Listener, March 28, 1974, review waste To the Unknown Hero, proprietress.
413.
Nation, October 17, 2005, Smear M. Anderson, review of The End, p. 31.
New Statesman, Jan 31, 2005, George Walden, dialogue of The End, p. 48.
New York Review of Books, Sep 18, 1975, review of The D'Arthez Case, p. 56.
Philadelphia Inquirer, February 2, 2005, Carlin Romano, review of The End.
Voice Academic Supplement, spring, 2005, Brandon Stosuy, review of The End.
Bookforum, (September 6, 2006), Noah Isenberg, debate of The End.
H-Net Reviews, (September 6, 2006), Scott Denham, con of Der Untergang.
World Literature Today, spring, 1979.
Contemporary Authors, New Scrutinize Series