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Author and playwright Born on 20th May 1921 in Hamburg |
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| 1938 | |
First poems published, finishes school |
| 1939 |
Apprenticeship in the Boysen bookstore and acting lessons with the actor Helmut Gmelin
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| 1941 |
Employed with the Landesbühne Osthannover theatre in March, drafted into military service in November
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| 1942/43 |
Borchert is wounded and falls ill with diphtheria. He is accused of self-mutilation but later acquitted. He is retained in custody and convicted of making ‘defeatist comments’. In November he is transferred to the Eastern front, and in December is admitted to an epidemic unit with jaundice and typhus.
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| 1943 |
Works as a cabaret artist
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| 1944 |
Sentenced to nine months imprisonment for undermining of military morale and later sent to the front line
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| 1945 |
Flees from French prisoner-of-war camp and returns to Hamburg seriously ill. Becomes assistant director at the Hamburg Theatre | |
| 1946 |
Die Hundeblume (The Dandelion), poetry collection Laterne, Nacht und Sterne (Streetlight, Night and Stars) | |
| 1947 |
Last work Draußen vor der Tür ('The Man Outside') |
