Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) was born in a home for unmarried mothers near Heerlen, in the Netherlands, where his mother was a domestic servant, and grew up with his grandfather, the writer Johannes Freumbichler, in Vienna, Seekirchen and then Traunstein. He left secondary school for an apprenticeship with a grocer in Salzburg; around the turn of 1949, a pleurisy developed into tuberculosis and kept him in a sanatorium until 1951. A journalist, then a student actor at the Mozarteum, he received the Büchner Prize in 1970, died in Gmunden and forbade in his will that he be published or performed in Austria.

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• NovelExtinctionAuslöschungThomas Bernhard · 1986Literature