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Hans Erich Nossak
(born 30.01.1901 in Hamburg, died 02.11.1977 in Hamburg), writer
Hans Erich Nossack studied art history and literature in Hamburg and later law, political science and economics in Jena. He hired on as an unskilled labourer and eventually trained as a bank clerk. Along the way he wrote poems and dramas. He was one of the first writers to write about the effects of the bomb war in Der Untergang (1948). Hans Erich Nossack was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize (1961), the Wilhelm Raabe Prize (1963) and the Federal Cross of Merit with Star (1974), among others, for his diverse work.
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