Alfred Hellmuth Andersch was a German writer, publisher, and radio editor.
13 Facts About Alfred Andersch
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Alfred Andersch's parents were Alfred Andersch and his wife Hedwig, nee Watzek.
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Alfred Andersch wrote about this in The Father of a Murderer.
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In 1930, after an apprenticeship as a bookseller, Andersch became a youth leader in the Communist Party.
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Alfred Andersch then left the party and entered a depressive phase of "total introversion".
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In 1940, Alfred Andersch was conscripted into the Wehrmacht, but deserted at the Arno Line in Italy on 6 June 1944.
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Alfred Andersch was interned at Camp Ruston, Louisiana and other POW camps among German prisoners of war in the United States.
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Alfred Andersch became the editor of a prisoners' newspaper, Der Ruf.
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Sebald accused Alfred Andersch of having presented through literature a version of his life that made it sound more acceptable to a post-Nazi public.
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From 1958, Alfred Andersch lived in Berzona in Switzerland, where he became mayor in 1972.
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Alfred Andersch died on 21 February 1980 in Berzona, Ticino.
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Alfred Andersch served as an analyst of contemporary issues for the post-war generation.
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Alfred Andersch often raised questions about the free will of the individual as a central theme.