biography
pronunciation:
[ahpits]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1900–79)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Leipzig, EC Germany. He worked in a second-hand bookshop and also took up acting. A socialist and communist, he was frequently detained, finally in the Buchenwald concentration camp. After World War 2 he moved to Leipzig and became a journalist and theatre manager, then moved to East Berlin (1955) and began his writing career. His novels depict national socialism and the resistance to Hitler from the viewpoint of victim and socialist. Nackt unter Wölfen (1958), dealing with the rescue of a child in Buchenwald, has been translated into some 30 languages. |
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