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Wolfgang Borchert

WOLFGANG BORCHERT  (1921 - 1947)

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Wolfgang Borchert was born in Hamburg on May 20th 1921. His mother, Hertha, was a writer and his father, Fritz a teacher. It was compulsorily to join the Hitler Youth which he hated and managed to resign - but was arrested by the Gestapo and later released. He became an apprentice bookseller and secretly took acting lessons. When he passed his acting course he left bookselling for acting. He was called up and sent to the eastern Front. He had an accident and cut his hand which became infected and turned to hepatitis. He superiors decided that it was a deliberate act to get out of the army and he was arrested and imprisoned. He was in solitary confinement but was brought up on a charge of making statements that would endanger the country and received a further six week sentence. after serving his time he was sent back to the eastern Front where he again suffered a number of bouts of hepatitis and frostbite. He was sent back to Germany on medical leave. During this time he took up acting again - but was arrested for impersonating Joseph Goebells. He was sent to prison for nine months. On release he was sent to the Western Front. His battalion surrendered to the French army. but he escaped and walked back to Hamburg - which was 370 miles away. after the War his health deteriorated. In 1946 his doctors gave him a year to live. He began writing producing prose, poems and plays. He died in a Swiss sanatorium on November 20th 1947

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 1         Company Of That Man Am I, The         Outside on the Street

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Company Of That Man Am I, The

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Outside on the Street

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1945: Sergeant Beckmann arrives home in Germany, utterly altered. Throw yourself into his world of darkly comic, grotesque characters. Written in just six days after escaping from a prisoner of war camp and walking 370 miles back to Hamburg, Wolfgang Borcherts vivid interpretation of his own story shines a light on the aftermath of war. Winners of both the Charlie Hartill Special Reserve and the Scottish Daily Mail Commendation Prize, Invertigos production sees an all-male ensemble confront this challenging European drama, directed by Cheek by Jowl associate Owen Horsley.

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Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    Aug 2013

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Pleasance and Invertigo

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drama, physical theatre 1 hour

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