Hans Fallada
Hans Fallada pseudonym of Rudolph Ditzen (born 1893) in Berlin. Prior to WWII, his novels were international bestsellers. His 1932 novel Little Man, What Now? was made into a major motion picture, the rising Nazis began to take note of him. By the en
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Hans Fallada pseudonym of Rudolph Ditzen (born 1893) in Berlin. Prior to WWII, his novels were international bestsellers. His 1932 novel Little Man, What Now? was made into a major motion picture, the rising Nazis began to take note of him. By the end of World War II he suffered an alcohol-fueled nervous breakdown and was in a Nazi insane asylum, where he nonetheless managed to write the brilliant subversive novel, The Drinker. After the war, Fallada went on to write; Every Man Dies Alonebut published posthumously. The Hans Fallada Prize, a literary prize awarded by the city of Neumünster, was named after the author.
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