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Alfred Andersch

Died in 1980

Alfred Andersch was born in 1914 in Munich. A member of the Communist Party from 1930, he was arrested in 1933, then gave up political action. Mobilised, he deserted in Italy in 1944 and went over to the Americans; a prisoner in the United States, he contributed to the prisoners' newspaper, Der Ruf, which he took up again in Munich with Hans Werner Richter. From 1948 to 1958, he ran literary programmes on the radio. His 1952 narrative, in which his desertion becomes the moment when he felt free, caused a sharp controversy. Settled in 1958 in Berzona, in Ticino, he died there in 1980.

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