Product description
In his last completed work, published posthumously in 1980, Alfred Andersch returns to his youth. Munich, May 1928. The schoolboy Franz Kien endures a lesson with Mr. Himmler, headmaster of the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium, classical philologist, upper-middle-class Catholic, and father of the future Reichsführer-SS. In the afterword, the author poses the question: 'Does humanism protect against absolutely nothing?'
biography
Alfred Andersch, born in Munich in 1914, worked after the war as, among other things, Erich Kästner's editorial assistant at the 'Neue Zeitung', co-edited the magazine 'Der Ruf' with Hans Werner Richter, participated in the first meetings of Group 47, and was editor of the literary magazine 'Texte und Zeichen'. After leaving his position as head of the 'radio-essay' department, which he founded at Süddeutscher Rundfunk (South German Broadcasting), he lived as a freelance writer in Switzerland, where he died in 1980.
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