13 Facts About Alfred Andersch

Alfred Andersch's parents were Alfred Andersch and his wife Hedwig, nee Watzek.

Alfred Andersch wrote about this in The Father of a Murderer.

In 1930, after an apprenticeship as a bookseller, Andersch became a youth leader in the Communist Party.

Alfred Andersch then left the party and entered a depressive phase of "total introversion".

In 1940, Alfred Andersch was conscripted into the Wehrmacht, but deserted at the Arno Line in Italy on 6 June 1944.

Alfred Andersch was interned at Camp Ruston, Louisiana and other POW camps among German prisoners of war in the United States.

Alfred Andersch became the editor of a prisoners' newspaper, Der Ruf.

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.

From 1958, Alfred Andersch lived in Berzona in Switzerland, where he became mayor in 1972.

Alfred Andersch died on 21 February 1980 in Berzona, Ticino.

Alfred Andersch is considered an author of critical post-war literature.

Rather than a traditional narration style, Alfred Andersch often used assemblages in form of documentaries, citations, and other narrative elements.

Alfred Andersch considered his audiobook Der Tod des James Dean, a story that contains texts of John Dos Passos, a radio assemblage.