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Wolfgang Borchert Biography |
| Wolfgang Borchert (May 20, - November 20, ) was a German author and playwright, whose work was affected by his experience of dictatorship and his service in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. Borchert was born in in the German city of Hamburg, the only child of teacher Fritz Borchert and author Hertha Borchert. Far from being an enthusiastic Nazi, Borchert hated his (compulsory) time in the party's youth wing, the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend), from which (after much effort) he managed to resign. In he was arrested by the Gestapo (Secret State Police) and then released. The same year he reluctantly took up an apprenticeship at a Hamburg bookshop. While at the bookshop, Borchert secretly took acting lessons. In , upon passing his acting examination, he left the apprenticeship and began working at a theatre in Hannover. His nascent theatrical career was cut short, however, by his conscription into the Wehrmacht only a few month Wolfgang borchert! |