It's lucky that Hans Fallada's novel "Every Man Dies Alone" emerged from obscurity this year in its first English translation. Otherwise our image of the German resistance to Hitler might have been ...

The German novelist Hans Fallada is one of the more unlikely success stories of recent years. Born Rudolf Ditzen in 1893, Fallada (a pen-name based on a composite of characters from the Brothers Grimm ...

This is the background story to the writing and eventual publication of Hans Fallada's A Stranger in My Own Country (Polity), a memoir of life in Nazi Germany written secretly by him while in prison ...

More than 60 years since Hans Fallada's international bestseller Alone in Berlin was published, readers will be able to digest the unabridged version for the first time. Germany's Aufbau publishing ...

The Nazis didn’t kill German novelist Hans Fallada, but they were in many ways responsible for his untimely death in 1947, at the age of 53. There can be no question that Fallada’s already frail ...

This 1988 biopic chronicling the last decade of German novelist Hans Fallada (Little Man, What Now?) falls prey to the chief difficulty of most movies about writers: how to render their imaginative ...

Hans Fallada, the literary pseudonym of Rudolf Ditzen, was far more contradictory than any of the many characters he invented in his colourful fiction, which took as its theme ordinary people ...

Killer, junkie, jailbird, head case, both approved and condemned by the Nazis, a sort of belated poète maudit and proto-beatnik – when you read about Hans Fallada’s life you can’t help feeling that ...

The German novelist Hans Fallada is one of the more unlikely success stories of recent years. Born Rudolf Ditzen in 1893, Fallada (a pen-name based on a composite of characters from the Brothers Grimm ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Hans Fallada was one of Germany’s most successful writers of the 1930s, the author of the acclaimed Depression-era ...

Hans Fallada, author of A Small Circus and Alone in Berlin. Hans Fallada’s 1947 thriller set in Nazi Germany, Alone in Berlin, was a belated bestseller in the English-speaking world when a new ...