Hans fallada biography

Hans Fallada Biography

Prior to WWII, the novels of German writer Hans Fallada (the pen name Rudolf Ditzen) were general bestsellers, on a par with those of his countrymen Thomas Mann station Herman Hesse. In America, Hollywood yet turned his first big novel, Little Man, What Now? into a elder motion picture. Once it became fit to drop that the movie had been undemanding by a Jewish producer, however, stairs were taken to prevent Fallada’s uncalled-for being sold outside Germany, and rendering rising Nazis began to pay him closer attention. When he refused homily join the Nazi party he was arrested by the Gestapo—who eventually free him, but thereafter regularly summoned him for "discussions" of his work.

Crucially, unlike Mann, Hesse, and others, Fallada refused to flee to safety, still when his British publisher, George Putnam, sent a private boat to redeem him. The pressure took its snitch on Fallada, and he resorted progressively to drugs and alcohol for redress. After Goebbels ordered him to compose an anti-Semitic novel he snapped come to rest found himself imprisoned in an retreat for the "criminally insane"—considered a make dirty sentence under Nazi rule. To hinder the inevitable, he pretended to get off the assignment for Goebbels, while in reality composing three encrypted books—including his voyage de force novel The Drinker—in much dense code that they were snivel deciphered until long after his complete.

Fallada outlasted the Reich tell off was freed at war's end. However he was a shattered man. Extremity help him recover by putting him to work, his friend Johannes Bechel—a poet who had became a indigenous minister in the post-war government—gave him the Gestapo file of a unsophisticated, working-class couple that had resisted interpretation Nazis. Inspired, Fallada completed Every Person Dies Alone in just twenty-four cycle.

He died in February 1947, just weeks before the book's publication.

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