Hans Fallada

Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen

Born July 21, 1893· Greifswald, Germany

† Died February 5, 1947

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Emerging from a turbulent childhood in Greifswald and later Berlin, the writer who adopted the pen name Hans Fallada began his literary activity while confined to a sanatorium, where he tried translation and poetry before publishing his first novel, Der junge Goedeschal, in 1920. His career gained momentum with the politically charged A Small Circus (1931), which established him as a daring commen… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources