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Volker Hage
(b. 1949) is literary editor of der Spiegel and visiting professor at Hamburg University. His most recent work is Zeugen der Zerstörung. Die Literaten und der Luftkrieg, Frankfurt/Main 2003. He is editor of Dieter Forte, "Schweigen oder sprechen" (2002) and, "Hamburg 1943. Literarische Zeugnisse zum Feuersturm" (2003).
Eurozine Articles
Buried feelings
German authors' handling of the Allied bombing in World War II
W.G. Sebald claimed that the Allied bombing was hushed up in postwar German literature. Not entirely true, responds Volker Hage: there are a number of novels outside the canon in which the experience of the bombing comes to light. [Hungarian version added] [more]
08.10.2007