The Life and Works of Wolfgang Borchert

The first comprehensive study in English of the life and works of the important postwar dramatist and short-story writer. Wolfgang Borchert has been called "the most important voice of post-war German literature." He came to fame literally overnight when his play Draussen vor der Tür (The Man Outside) was broadcast in the British zone of occupied Germany in February 1947 and evoked impassioned reactions both for and against. An examination of the plight of the returning soldier in the postwar wo