Walter Kempowski

Walter Kempowski (born April 29th, 1929 in Rostock) is a German writer.

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April 29th - 1929 - Rostock - German - Writer

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Walter Kempowski´s first success as an author was the autobiographic novel `Tadellöser und Wolf´, in which he describes his youth in Nazi Germany from the viewpoint of a well - off middle class family. In several more books he completed the story of his family from the early 20th century into the late 1950s, when he was released from an East German prison where, accused as spy for the US military forces in Western Germany, he had been incarcerated for eight years. In Western Germany he became a teacher in a small village near Hamburg. In 2005 he finished his enormous oeuvre `Echolot´, a documentation about people of any kind living under the circumstances of war. `Echolot´ consists of thousands of personal documents, letters ec. that had been collected by the author over a period of more than twenty years.

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