Who am I?

[Dave Danner]

And why am I here? (in this forum, that is)

[McCulloh]

Ulrich Plenzdorf ?

[Dave Danner]

Ulrich Plenzdorf ?

Plenzdorf was born in 1934.

The pictured soldier was born in 1917.

[Robin Lumsden]

It's Heinrich Boell.

[Dave Danner]

It's Heinrich Boell.

Ding ding!

While his Nobel Prize mainly reflected works not about the war, he wrote a number of stories, fictional and autobiographical, on the war. Try "The Train was On Time" (Der Zug war punktlich) and "And Where Were You, Adam?" (Und wo warst du, Adam?), for example.

[erichcraciun]

Her also wrote a book with LEv LXXXX ( I forget) entitled "warum haben wir auf einander geschossen". Anti war - anti German for the most part. However - excerpts of Boells Feldpostbriefe were published in Die Zeit....veruy imperialistic statements he makes in them. Interesting for an 'post war anti war' advocate.

Erich