Hodina v rodném městě - CD (Čte Karel Höger)

Chrantox-Donath Karel Höger porter Bohumil Záhorský driver Karel Fořt Anna Jaroslava Adamová voice of Bruno Luděk Munzar voice of Josef Červinka Translation, adaptation, and direction by Josef Červinka Radio recording from 1962 After 1945, the trauma of war and its consequences became the focus of interest for many national literatures. Many authors also drew from their own experiences in the trenches, captivity, imprisonment in concentration camps, or (in the case of German writers) from enforced exile. Perhaps most prominently, the stories and experiences of World War II are present in post-war German literature. Writers felt a strong need to contribute to the moral cleansing of their nation, which caused the war conflict, and after 1945 had to come to terms with defeat and a sense of guilt. With this focus, the literary group Gruppe 47 was formed in 1947, with which many significant German writers connected their literary work for shorter or longer periods. Among the most famous were the founder of Gruppe 47 Hans Werner Richter, Siegfried Lenz, Günter Grass, Martin Walser, Peter Weiss, Erich Maria Remarque, and last but not least Heinrich Böll, the Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1972. Just as in numerous...