It's lucky that Hans Fallada's novel "Every Man Dies Alone" emerged from obscurity this year in its first English translation. Otherwise our image of the German resistance to Hitler might have been ...

Like Pinneberg, Hans Fallada wanted to live his life and largely ignore the political battles swirling around him. The enormous success of Little Man, What Now? provided him with enough money to leave ...

To anyone who’s depressed about the state of literary culture these days, Dennis Johnson would like to offer a three-word pep talk: Go to Chicago. It was during a recent visit that Johnson, founder of ...

The Nazis didn’t kill German novelist Hans Fallada, but they were in many ways responsible for his untimely death in 1947, at the age of 53. There can be no question that Fallada’s already frail ...

Shaer is a staff writer at the Christian Science Monitor. NEW YORK — The early years, before he was old enough to understand the extent of the destruction unfurling around him -- these are the ones ...

Story of married couple contending with a devastated postwar Berlin follows runaway success of Alone in Berlin Hans Fallada’s 1947 novel Alone in Berlin was the hit book of the summer six years ago, ...

Although the war has finally ended in the late spring of 1945, its legacy continues to fester throughout the defeated Germany. Ordinary citizens search the ruins for food, or even scraps of clothing, ...

More than 60 years after his death, German author Hans Fallada last year made a literary splash in the U.S. with the publication of the English translation of his Every Man Dies Alone. The novel (my ...

Reporting from New York — The early years, before he was old enough to understand the extent of the destruction unfurling around him -- these are the ones Ulrich Ditzen likes to remember. He was just ...