Zwischen Krieg und Frieden: Die narrative Gestaltung der Welt im Werk Alfred Heins

The life and work of Alfred Hein, a writer from Upper Silesia, was shaped by both world wars of the 20th century. This author of poems, novels and short stories, who created during the first four decades of this century, felt the consequences of the First World War he experienced in his youth throughout his life and tried to work out his own idea of peace in literature. The Second World War, however, ended his literary career at an early stage. The first part of this volume presents Hein's ...