Heinrich Böll

Heinrich Böll was born on Dec 21, 1917 in Germany. Heinrich Böll's big-screen debut came with The Bread of Those Early Years directed by Herbert Vesely in 1962. Heinrich Böll is known for Krieg und Frieden directed by Stefan Aust, Jürgen Prochnow stars as Kevin and Günther Kaufmann as Mac. The most recent award Heinrich Böll achieved is Nobel Prize. The upcoming new movie Heinrich Böll plays is Krieg und Frieden which will be released on Dec 06, 1986.

A recurring theme in Heinrich Böll's novels is the German society during the decades following WWII. In his early novels, like 'Wo warst du Adam?' he writes about the meaningless of war, its sufferings and horrors. The moral decay of post-war Germany is the theme for the following novels, 'Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit' and 'Haus ohne Hüter'. In the 1960s he wrote the conspicious consumption of the blossoming German economy. In his 'Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum' he wrote about a German society who had to deal with terrorist attacks.