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Wolfgang Koeppen

Died in 1996

Wolfgang Koeppen was born in 1906 in Greifswald, the natural child of a seamstress, barely knowing his father. After theatre jobs and odd jobs, he joined the Berliner Börsen-Courier in 1931, which closed at the end of 1933, and published two novels with Cassirer in 1934 and 1935. Back from the Netherlands in 1938, he wrote screenplays for UFA. His three novels from 1951 to 1954, received with reserve, form the trilogy of failure; afterwards he wrote mostly travel narratives. Winner of the Büchner Prize in 1962, he died in Munich in 1996.

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