The German Nobel laureate Heinrich Böll, for whatever reason, has never enjoyed wide recognition on American shores. No less political than Grass, no less a historian of German collective memory than ...

In 1952 the German writer Heinrich Boll complained in an essay: “The first literary attempts of our post-1945 generation were described by some as `Rubble Literature,’ thus hoping to shove it aside.” ...

A scene from The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, 1972. (Courtesy of the Criterion Collection) On May 11, 1972, the Red Army Faction bombed an officers’ club on a US Army base in Frankfurt, Germany, and ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The 1972 Nobel prize for literature winner, Heinrich Boll, was a post-war German writer whose work is ...

In 1950, Heinrich Boll was a hot young German writer who had just published a novella, “The Train Was on Time.” His publisher encouraged him to write a novel. “The Silent Angel” is the result of that ...

TOMORROW AND YESTERDAY (250 pp.)—Heinrlch Boll—Criterion ($2.50). Periodically, eleven-year-old Martin Bach is catechized by his grandmother. “Your father fell in action, didn’t he?” “Yes.” “What does ...