Hans Erich Nossack

Nossack (right) at the Frankfurt Book Fair (1969)

Hans Erich Nossack (30 January 1901 – 2 November 1977) was a German writer. Among his works are Spätestens im November (1955), Der jüngere Bruder (1958) and Ein glücklicher Mensch (1975). In 1961 Nossack was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize.[1] One of his most famous works is The End: Hamburg 1943, written 3 months after the bombing of Hamburg by the allies during the Second World War. W. G. Sebald, in his book ''On the Natural History of Destruction'' wrote, "Indeed, it seems that no German writer, with the exception of Nossack, was ready or able to put any concrete facts down on paper about the progress or repercussions of this gigantic, long-term campaign of destruction."[2] In 2006, when The End was published for the first time in English, by the University of Chicago Press, Publishers Weekly wrote that "Nossack's remarkable witnessing has real and urgent value."[3]


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References

  1. ^ "Hans Erich Nossack". Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  2. ^ Sebald, W. G. (22 June 2011). On the Natural History of Destruction. Knopf Canada. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-307-36583-5.
  3. ^ "The End: Hamburg 1943". Retrieved July 18, 2025.


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