Hans Fallada

Rudolf Ditzen, who wrote as Hans Fallada, was born in 1893 in Greifswald, the son of a judge. At eighteen, a double suicide disguised as a duel with a schoolmate cost the latter his life; gravely wounded, Fallada escaped trial on grounds of diminished responsibility. He then worked on agricultural estates and served two prison sentences for embezzlement in the twenties. In 1932 a novel brought him worldwide success, and he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1936 and 1939. He remained in Germany under Nazism and died in Berlin in 1947.

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• NovelWolf Among WolvesWolf unter WölfenHans Fallada · 1937LiteraturePublic domain