AKA Heinrich Theodor Böll

Born: 21-Dec-1917
Birthplace: Cologne, Germany
Died: 16-Jul-1985
Location of death: Bonn, Germany
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: The Train Was On Time

Military service: German Army (six years, Cpl., Russian Front)

Wife: Annemarie Böll (m. 6-Mar-1942, until his death, four children)

    High School: (1937)
    University: University of Cologne (briefly, 1937)

    Nobel Prize for Literature 1972
    Georg Büchner Prize 1967
    Taken Prisoner of War

Is the subject of books:
Heinrich Böll: Withdrawal and Reemergence, 1973, BY: J. H. Reid
Heinrich Böll: A German for His Time, 1988, BY: J. H. Reid

Author of books:
Das Vermächtnis (1948)
Der Zug war pünktlich (1949, novel)
Wo warst du Adam? (1951, novel)
Der Engel schwieg (1952)
Und sagte kein einziges Wort (1953)
Das Brot der frühen Jahre (1955, novel)
Billard um halb zehn (1959, novel)
Ansichten eines Clowns (1963, novel)
Ende einer Dienstfahrt (1966)
Gruppenbild mit Dame (1971, novel)
Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (1974)
Was soll aus dem Jungen bloss werden?, oder, Irgendwas mit Büchern (1981, memoir)
Frauen vor Flusslandschaft (1985)

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