Das Gesamtwerk
- 362 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Wolfgang Borchert Book order
May 20, 1921 – November 20, 1947
This German author and playwright's work powerfully reflects his experiences with dictatorship and his service in the Wehrmacht during World War II. His writing stands as a prime example of the Trümmerliteratur movement in post-war Germany, demonstrating an unwavering commitment to the principles of humanity and humanism. Though he avoids biographical details, his profound engagement with these themes has made him one of the most popular German post-war authors, with his works frequently studied in schools today.
- 2021
- 1996
The Man Outside
- 257 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Wolfgang Borchert died in 1947––the twenty-six-year-old victim of a malaria-like fever contracted during World War II. This was just one day after the premier of his play, The Man Outside, which caused an immediate furor throughout his native Germany with its youthful, indeed revolutionary, vision against war and the dehumanizing effects of the police state. In a very real sense, Borchert was both the moral and physical victim of the Third Reich and the Nazi war machine. As a Wehrmacht conscript, he twice served on the Russian front, where he was wounded, and twice was imprisoned for his outspokenness. His voice speaks plainly and powerfully from out of the war’s carnage all the more poignantly for its being cut short at so young an age.
- 1971
The Man Outside: Play & Stories
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Wolfgang Borchert died in 1947––the twenty-six-year-old victim of a malaria-like fever contracted during World War II. This was just one day after the premier of his play, The Man Outside, which caused an immediate furor throughout his native Germany with its youthful, indeed revolutionary, vision against war and the dehumanizing effects of the police state. In a very real sense, Borchert was both the moral and physical victim of the Third Reich and the Nazi war machine. As a Wehrmacht conscript, he twice served on the Russian front, where he was wounded, and twice was imprisoned for his outspokenness. His voice speaks plainly and powerfully from out of the war’s carnage all the more poignantly for its being cut short at so young an age.