by Wolfgang Borchert · Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH · tapa dura · ISBN 9783498090272
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«Das Gesamtwerk» is the collected works of Wolfgang Borchert, published by Rowohlt in hardcover (349 pages, in German).
The volume brings together Borchert's short stories, poems and plays born from his experience in World War II. His work, linked to Trümmerliteratur, portrays the desolation and loneliness of the generation that returned from the war. «Die Hundeblume» and the drama «Draußen vor der Tür» are among his most celebrated pieces.
Borchert (1921-1947) served as a soldier on the Eastern Front and died at 26 in Basel. This edition was published in 1996.
For readers interested in 20th-century German literature and postwar classics.
Wolfgang Borchert was a German author and playwright whose work was strongly influenced by his experience of dictatorship and his service in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. His work is among the best-known examples of the Trümmerliteratur movement in post-World War II Germany. His most famous work is the drama Draußen vor der Tür (The Man Outside), which he wrote soon after the end of World War II. His works are uncompromising on the issues of humanity and humanism. He is one of the most popular authors of the German postwar period; his work continues to be studied in German schools.
