This is the background story to the writing and eventual publication of Hans Fallada's A Stranger in My Own Country (Polity), a memoir of life in Nazi Germany written secretly by him while in prison ...

The Nazis didn’t kill German novelist Hans Fallada, but they were in many ways responsible for his untimely death in 1947, at the age of 53. There can be no question that Fallada’s already frail ...

To anyone who’s depressed about the state of literary culture these days, Dennis Johnson would like to offer a three-word pep talk: Go to Chicago. It was during a recent visit that Johnson, founder of ...

Shaer is a staff writer at the Christian Science Monitor. NEW YORK — The early years, before he was old enough to understand the extent of the destruction unfurling around him -- these are the ones ...

Killer, junkie, jailbird, head case, both approved and condemned by the Nazis, a sort of belated poète maudit and proto-beatnik – when you read about Hans Fallada’s life you can’t help feeling that ...

Hans Fallada, the literary pseudonym of Rudolf Ditzen, was far more contradictory than any of the many characters he invented in his colourful fiction, which took as its theme ordinary people ...

To start off, I have to admit that I had already read Every Man Dies Alone in bound galleys before I was asked to review it. I read it, and then I wrote a blurb for it. Passionately. I wrote this ...

Hans Fallada, author of A Small Circus and Alone in Berlin. Hans Fallada’s 1947 thriller set in Nazi Germany, Alone in Berlin, was a belated bestseller in the English-speaking world when a new ...

Rawer and more unevenly wrought than Alone in Berlin, Nightmare is the necessary precursor to that great work. By Jane Shilling Returning to his apartment in ruined postwar Berlin from a sanatorium ...

Reporting from New York — The early years, before he was old enough to understand the extent of the destruction unfurling around him -- these are the ones Ulrich Ditzen likes to remember. He was just ...

The German novelist Hans Fallada is one of the more unlikely success stories of recent years. Born Rudolf Ditzen in 1893, Fallada (a pen-name based on a composite of characters from the Brothers Grimm ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Hans Fallada was one of Germany’s most successful writers of the 1930s, the author of the acclaimed Depression-era ...