biography
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Hildesheimer, Wolfgang
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pronunciation:
[hildeshiymer]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1916–91)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Hamburg, N Germany. He emigrated to Palestine in 1933 and moved to London in 1937. During World War 2 he was an information officer for the British in Jerusalem and acted as an interpreter during the Nuremberg Trials. He drew on themes from his early short stories such as Lieblose Legenden (1952) and the novel Paradies der falschen Vögel (1953) for later theatre and radio plays, including Das Opfer Helena (1955). He used monologue as a theatrical form in Der Drachenthron (1955) and 4 Spiele in denen es dunkel wird (1958). One of the first German representatives of the Theatre of the Absurd, his plays in this genre include Verspaltung (1961), Nachtstück (1963), and Mary Stuart (1971). In later years he concentrated mainly on art and graphic work. Awards include the Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden (1954) and the Georg-Büchner-Preis (1966). |
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