“truly great novel… somewhat along the lines of my Wolf”
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Hans Fallada
Hans Fallada was a German writer of the first half of the 20th century. Some of his better known novels include Little Man, What Now? (1932) and Every Man Dies Alone (1947). His works belong predominantly to the New Objectivity literary style, a style associated with an emotionless reportage approach, with precision of detail, and a veneration for 'the fact'. Fallada's pseudonym derives from a com…
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culture · German writer · writer · novelist · children's writer · journalist · autobiographer · literary editor · accountant · translator · also Hans Fallada, Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen, Fallada
Born 21 July 1893 · Died 5 February 1947 · Q76539
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2026· 2 entries
“This seemingly abrupt change of plans coincided with an inner conviction that Fallada had long harbored. Years earlier he had confided to an acquaintance that:”
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2016· 4 entries
The Guardian: Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada review – brutal study of postwar Berlin
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The Guardian: Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada review – a compelling portrait of postwar Germany
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The Guardian: Hans Fallada novel, Nightmare in Berlin, gets first English translation
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A complete edition was published in Germany that added about 100 pages to the original 400 pages in the 1932 edition
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2014· 1 entry
The Guardian: Hans Fallada's Iron Gustav: a tale of German life delayed by 60 years
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2013· 4 entries
The Guardian: Live webchat: Dennis Johnson on Hans Fallada
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The Guardian: Reading group: Is Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin too crude for comfort?
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The Guardian: Reading group: Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is a moral maze we can't resist
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The Guardian: March's reading group: Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
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2012· 1 entry
The Guardian: A Small Circus by Hans Fallada – review
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1976· 1 entry
Starring Hildegard Knef and Carl Raddatz
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1947· 1 entry
Died 1947-02-05.
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1944· 1 entry
Although their divorce was already finalized, a drunk Fallada and his wife were involved in an altercation in which a shot was fired by Fallada, according to Suse Ditzen in an interview she gave late in her life to biogr
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1943· 1 entry
Travelled to France and the Reichsgau Sudetenland as Sonderführer (B) by order of the so-called Reichsarbeitsdienst
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1939· 1 entry
And the subsequent outbreak of World War II, life became still more difficult for Fallada and his family
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1937· 1 entry
The publication and success of Wolf unter Wölfen (Wolf Among Wolves) marked Fallada's temporary return to his serious, realistic style
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1933· 1 entry
Fallada had to make a few changes to the novel that removed anything that showed the Nazis in a bad light: a Sturmabteilung (SA) thug had to be turned into a soccer thug, for example, and the book stayed in print until 1
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1932· 1 entry
While immediately easing his financial straits, was overshadowed by his anxiety over the rise of national socialism and a subsequent nervous breakdown
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1931· 1 entry
With A Small Circus (German: Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben; "Peasants, Bosses and Bombs") based on the history of the Rural People's Movement in Schleswig-Holstein and the farmers' protest and boycott of the town of Neumünst
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1929· 1 entry
And maintained a string of respectable jobs in journalism, working for newspapers and eventually for the publisher of his novels, Rowohlt
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1926· 1 entry
Fallada again found himself imprisoned as a result of a drug and alcohol-fueled string of thefts from employers
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1920· 1 entry
With the publication of his first book Der junge Goedeschal ("Young Goedeschal")
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1911· 1 entry
Made a pact with a friend, Hanns Dietrich von Necker, to stage a duel to mask their suicides, feeling that the duel would be seen as more honorable
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1910· 1 entry
(age 17) seem to mark a turning point in Fallada's life
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1909· 2 entries
(age 16), he was run over by a horse-drawn cart, then kicked in the face by the horse
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The family again relocated, to Leipzig, following his father's appointment to the Imperial Supreme Court
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1899· 1 entry
When Fallada was 6, his father relocated the family to Berlin following the first of several promotions he would receive
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1893· 1 entry
Born 1893-07-21.
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