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Wolfgang Borchert

German playwright, and short story writer.

Born May 20th, 1921 in Hamburg. [ref]

Died November 20th, 1947 at 26 years old in Basel (hepatitis). [ref]

Occupations
playwright, poet, resistance fighter, short story writer, writer
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It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Ralph Waldo Emerson