Hans Erich Nossack
Illustration — Nossack at the Frankfurt Book Fair 1969 Hans Erich Nossack (30 January 1901 – 2 November 1977) was a German writer. Among his works are An Offering for the Dead (1947), Spätestens im November (1955), Der jüngere Bruder (1958) and Ein glücklicher Mensch (1975). In 1961 Nossack was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize.
Hans Erich Nossack
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- 1901
- Died
- 1977
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One of his most famous works is The End: Hamburg 1943, written 3 months after the bombing of Hamburg by the allies during the Second World War. Sebald, in his book On the Natural History of Destruction wrote, "Indeed, it seems that no German writer, with the exception of Nossack, was ready or able to put any concrete facts down on paper about the progress or repercussions of this gigantic, long-term campaign of destruction." In 2006, when The End was published for the first time in English, by the University of Chicago Press, Publishers Weekly wrote that "Nossack's remarkable witnessing has real and urgent value."
• Georg Büchner Prize 1961
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Hans Erich Nossack appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a writer and playwright (30 January 1901 – 2 November 1977). Hans Erich Nossack was born on 30 January 1901 and died on 2 November 1977. Hans Erich Nossack was born in Hamburg, Germany, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Hans Erich Nossack died in Hamburg, Germany, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Places of activity recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: Augsburg, Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg.
Hans Erich Nossack, Buchmesse Frankfurt am Main 1969
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