"If I am conservative, and I tend to accept that judgment..., this it is because I wish to conserve, if possible, that which held more or less all Germans together in 1945, the feeling of liberation, the hope for a new state with a new communality after the common suffering of the fascist period which was...an absolute 12 years of permanent terror....And I conserve permanently within myself...the moment of this liberation. I live from it; my whole life, my family life, my work, all live from it. more...
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Born in Cologne in 1917, Heinrich Boll had an extraordinarily happy childhood. His father was a furniture maker with his own workshop, and his Catholic family was liberal and humane. That background of broad-minded tolerance made it possible for Boll to resist the allure of Nazism that swept Germany when he was a teenager; he refused to join the party, even though that made his admittance to the university difficult. Eventually, however, he enrolled--only to be drafted into the German army, whe more...
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12/21/1917 Cologne (Köln), North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, Germany, Central Europe,
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un buen escritor con una historia de la vida real