34 Facts About Wolfgang Borchert

Wolfgang Borchert's work is among the best-known examples of the Trummerliteratur movement in post-World War II Germany.

Wolfgang Borchert's works are uncompromising on the issues of humanity and humanism.

Wolfgang Borchert is one of the most popular authors of the German postwar period; his work continues to be studied in German schools.

Wolfgang Borchert's family was liberal and progressive, and they moved in Hamburg's intellectual social circles.

Wolfgang Borchert hated his compulsory time in the party's youth wing, the Hitler Youth, from which, after missing meetings, he was released.

Wolfgang Borchert rebelled against the Nazi dictatorship in his pre-war works.

Wolfgang Borchert would pass around anti-Nazi poems to his colleagues.

Wolfgang Borchert was posted to the Eastern Front, where he saw the full horror of the eastern conflict, witnessing the numerous casualties in battle and those sustained due to cold, starvation and inadequate equipment.

Wolfgang Borchert claimed that he had surprised a Russian soldier, had engaged in hand-to-hand conflict, his rifle had gone off in the struggle and wounded him.

Wolfgang Borchert was convicted of making "statements endangering the country" and sentenced to serve a further six weeks of strict-regime detention, and was then sent back to the Eastern Front "to prove himself at the front".

Wolfgang Borchert then returned to his barracks, and successfully applied to be transferred to an army theatre group.

Wolfgang Borchert was transferred to a transit camp in Koblenz, but in the dormitory on the evening of 30 November 1943 he retold parodies of the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

Wolfgang Borchert was denounced by one of the other soldiers in the dormitory, arrested, and on 21 August 1944 sentenced to nine months in prison.

Wolfgang Borchert's company surrendered to the French in March 1945.

Wolfgang Borchert resumed his work with the theatre, and continued writing.

Wolfgang Borchert wrote short prose and published a collection of poems Laterne, Nacht und Sterne in December 1946.

Rilke was his role model, to the extent that he signed a work "Wolff Maria Wolfgang Borchert" to express his respect for him.

Wolfgang Borchert was a follower of some poets and had seen them as his source of art fulfillment, for example, when he was to join the army, he wrote that he was hungry for art, listing Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Musset, Schiller and Holderlin.

Wolfgang Borchert's work was reviewed by his father, which Wolfgang considered as an endorsement.

Wolfgang Borchert was later well known for expressing himself in poems when he needed to, no matter what the outcome.

Wolfgang Borchert's writings indicate that he was less concerned with the quality of his work than he was fulfilled creating poems.

Wolfgang Borchert's work was distributed to whoever showed interest in them; later, this helped the Gestapo arrest him along with other reasons.

Later when Wolfgang Borchert grew up, he purified his creation by destroying many poems that were irrelevant to that time period.

However, in 1960, his mother Hertha Borchert and the American Stanley Tschopp gathered around two hundred poems to be published but that did not happen until 1996, when Allein mit meinem Schatten und dem Mond, a compiled selection of Wolfgang Borchert's poems, was published.

Wolfgang Borchert's style was not limited to his poems, but rather it was his short stories that made his style more vivid.

The preoccupations of war and post war in Wolfgang Borchert's writings are the pictures he had in mind of the front from the war, the life of a prisoner during the war, the return of a soldier to a destroyed Germany and the hope for the future after devastating war.

Wolfgang Borchert aimed to bring up disjointed events and present them as a shattered mirror and let the audience enjoy feeling it instead of watching it.

Wolfgang Borchert's work was not famous during his early days, although there were many people who liked his poems and prose works.

Wolfgang Borchert employed the styles of Rainer Maria Rilke and Holderlin into his poems and short stories.

Wolfgang Borchert was a heavy reader and he read the product of other poets from other countries.

Wolfgang Borchert was influenced by an American civil-war poet Walt Whitman.

The most famous work of Wolfgang Borchert was The Man Outside, a play that was first performed in 1947 only one day after his death.

The translation of Wolfgang Borchert's work opened up the opportunity for foreigners to further study the trauma literature which is greatly presented in his poems and short stories.

In 1988, a group of people who were keen on Wolfgang Borchert work initiated the International Wolfgang-Borchert Society.