Back Then at Home Experienced, Experienced and Invented

Fallada's early recollections Similar to "Tales from the Murkelei," the experienced and the imagined are combined in a pleasing manner here. Fallada describes his boyhood and adolescence in the "reichsgerichtliche" paternal household in Berlin towards the close of the nineteenth century. He describes family events, childhood friendships and tribulations, and the limits of the Wilhelminian education system using vibrant, colorful imagery. Biography Rudolf Ditzen, also known as Hans Fallada, was born in Greifswald in 1893 as the son of a high-ranking judicial officer. He attended the humanistic grammar school and finished an agricultural apprenticeship without graduating. From 1915 to 1925, he worked as a farm laborer, court inspector, and bookkeeper. Between 1928 and 1931, he worked as an address clerk, advertisement collector, and publishing company employee. 1920 first novel "Der junge Goedeschal"; independent writer since 1931. Numerous translations of Fallada's work Kleiner Mann was a nun? (1932) brought him international renown. On his six-acre farm in Mecklenburg, he lived in solitude as a "undesirable author" throughout the Nazi period. He relocated to Berlin in 1945 and died there in 1947.