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Wolfgang Hildesheimer (9 December 1916 – 21 August 1991) was a German author. He originally trained as an artist, before turning to writing.




Biography


Hildesheimer was born of Jewish parents, chemist Arnold Hildesheimer (1885–1955) and Hanna Goldschmidt (1888–1962), in Hamburg. His great-grandfather was Azriel Hildesheimer, the moderniser of Orthodox Judaism in Germany. He was educated at the Humanistisches Gymnasium in Mannheim (Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium) from 1926 to 1930. He then attended Odenwaldschule until 1933, when he left Germany. He was then educated at Frensham Heights School in Surrey, England. He studied carpentry in Mandatory Palestine, where his parents had emigrated. He studied painting and stage building in London.
In 1946 he worked as a translator and clerk at the Nuremberg trials. Afterward, he worked as a writer and was a member of Group 47. In 1980, he gave the inaugural address at the Salzburg Festival, "Was sagt Musik aus?" [What does music say?]. In addition to writing, Hildesheimer created collages which he collected in several volumes (the first Endlich allein, 1984), an activity he shared with other late-20th century writers Peter Weiss and Ror Wolf. The municipality of Poschiavo in Switzerland made Hildesheimer an honorary citizen in 1982; he died there in 1991.




Works


1952 Lieblose Legenden, short stories
1953 Das Paradies der falschen Vögel
1954 An den Ufern der Plotinitza, radio play
1955 Der Drachenthron, comedy in three acts
1955 Das Opfer Helena, radio play
1954 Das Märchen von Prinzessin Turandot (The Fairy Tale of Princess Turandot), radio play
1958 Pastorale oder Die Zeit für Kakao, play
1960 Herrn Walsers Raben, radio play
1961 Die Verspätung, play
1962 Vergebliche Aufzeichnungen
1965 Tynset, a novel
1971 Zeiten in Cornwall, travelogue
1973 Masante, a novel
1977 Mozart, a biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1981 Marbot, a fictional biography of Sir Andrew Marbot
1983 Mitteilungen an Max (Über den Stand der Dinge und anderes)




Awards


Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden (a radio play prize for Princess Turandot) 1955
Georg Büchner Prize 1966
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Großes Verdienstkreuz) 1983




References






External links


"Wolfgang-Hildesheimer-Archiv", Academy of Arts, Berlin

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• Eine kleine Nachtmusik
• Paul Eppstein
• Niuserre Ini
• Wolfgang Hildesheimer
• Hildesheimer
• Tynset (novel)
• List of German-language playwrights
• Eine kleine Nachtmusik
• Constanze Mozart
• Josef Hiršal
• Group 47
• Alfred Andersch
• Deaths in August 1991