Hans Fallada

Hans Fallada was a German writer of the first half of the 20th century. Some of his better known novels include Little Man, What Now and Every Man Dies Alone . His works belong predominantly to the New Objectivity literary style, with precise details and journalistic veneration of the facts. Falladas pseudonym derives from a combination of characters found in the Grimms Fairy Tales the protagonist of Hans in Luck and a horse named Falada in The Goose Girl.

Fallada was born in Greifswald, Germany, the child of a magistrate on his way to becoming a supreme court judge and a mother from a middleclass background, both of whom shared an enthusiasm for music, and to a lesser extent, literature. Jenny Williams notes in her biography More Lives than One , that Falladas father would often read aloud to his children works by authors such as Shakespeare and Schiller.

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