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Alfred Andersch General Fiction 5952 pages Published by Diogenes as Gesammelte Werke in 10 Bänden in Kassette 53 × 19.2 × 12.7 cm November 2004

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Movie adaptations

1993: Tochter Cast: Rudin Denise, Förnbacher Helmut

1988: Die Kirschen der Freiheit Director: Stephan Reinhardt

1987: Sansibar oder der letzte Grund Director: Bernhard Wicki Screenplay: Karin Hagen Cast: Peter Kremer, Cornelia Schmaus, Gisela Stein

1985: Vater eines Mörders Director: Carl-Heinz Caspari

1977: Winterspelt 1944 Director: Eberhard Fechner Cast: Ulrich von Dobschütz, Katharina Thalbach, Hans-Christian Blech

1965: Haakons Hosentaschen Director: Martin Bosboom Cast: Filmessay/Dokumentation (HR) von Alfred Andersch, aus der das Buch »Hohe Breitengrade« entstand.

1962: La rossa Director: Helmut Käutner Cast: Ruth Leuwerik, Rossanzo Brazzi, Gert Fröbe

1961: Sansibar oder der letzte Grund Director: Rainer Wolffhardt Cast: Robert Graf, Beatrice Schweizer, Paul Dahlke Photo: © Isolde Ohlbaum

Praise

Born in 1914, Alfred Andersch attended a private Munich boys' »The literary works of Alfred Andersch are a school, which was in fact run by the father of Heinrich Himmler, as demonstration of what political consciousness is and of that to which it gives rise (alongside depicted in his last book ›The Father of a Murderer‹. In 1933 Alfred the costs of writing his biography!) in an Andersch spent six months in Dachau concentration camp for his author: exemplary in its wide spectrum of activities as a Communist youth leader. After deserting the intended and conscientiously lived Wehrmacht army in 1944, he spent over a year as a prisoner of war contradictions.« – Max Frisch in America. After returning to Germany, he was the editor of several »I am incredibly indebted to him, because he newspapers as well as a prominent novelist. A founder of ›Group 47‹, introduced me to the world of the culture that distinguished company of German writers whose members industry. He showed me the ropes, opened my included Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass, Andersch won the »Nelly eyes to the industry's opportunities and risks – Sachs Prize« (for ›Efraim's Book‹) in 1968. He died in 1980 in Berzona not in abstract, but in practice.« – Hans /Ticino. Magnus Enzensberger

»We are nothing less than honour-bound to remember this man – his courage, his urgency, his tristesse.« – Fritz J. Raddatz

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»I believe that the French critic Maurice Nadeau will be proven right for saying that Alfred Andersch is one of the few German post-war writers who really have something to say. (...) He's got what the French call ›du métier‹, ›énormément du métier‹. His prose is tight, firm and melodious. Hardly a metaphor that doesn't fit perfectly, never a clumsy sentence with blurred meaning, no superfluous words and phrases.« – Jean Améry

Leeward Islands Correspondence An Admirer of Half The Father of a Murderer 544 pages 192 pages Shadows 144 pages Alfred Andersch 2014 2014 112 pages 1980 2006 Movie Adaptation »A master of German prose.« – Max Frisch

Winterspelt The Redhead My Disappearance in Cherries of Freedom 604 pages 272 pages Providence 144 pages 1974 1972 276 pages 1971 Movie Adaptation 1971

Flight to Afar Efraim's Book 224 pages 472 pages 1970 1967 Award winner

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