Biography Hans Fallad

He is a native of the family of a judicial official, a harsh, pedantic man crushed by bourgeois prejudices. Pretty early the future writer felt that he was uneasy in the callousness and soulless atmosphere of the family. Books help him to get away from a shameful life, to forget it. In the later poetic book about the years of childhood and youth “In those days at our house at home, Damals Bei Uns Daheim, I did not understand and missed it, but what an unexpected world was opened for me!

.. Then I opened Charles Dickens, and I also read it and listing his“ Copperfield ”with enthusiasm. As soon as I remember these books that I discovered for myself, I feel - they constantly live in me. And, of course, the Russians are “crime and punishment”, “brothers Karamazov” 1. The life of the Fallas was difficult: he experienced the flour of unemployment, and interrupted at penniless work, and even visited a small embezzlement in prison.

From personal experience, he is well aware of the grave fate of the “little man” in a bourgeois society, which will become the main character of his works. Subsequently, in the autobiographical note “How I became a writer”, Fallad noted that a close role in the people played an important role in his writing fate. The worldview of Fallas is of great inconsistency. He criticized the property of the property as an unjust, ineffective, inhuman, dooming the “little man” into unbearable suffering.

But the writer did not see any way out, no prospect, and this lay a gloomy imprint on his worldview and creativity. Fallas remained deaf to the revolutionary movement of his time, alien to politics. His books began to appear in the press in the XG. Fallad was present as a reporter in the trial, where the case of the Holstein rebels was versed. All what he heard was so shocked by him that he decided to write a book about this.

Fiction was combined in it with the documentation of the report. The rebellion of the peasants was suppressed, and its participants were brutally punished. All the sympathies of the author are on the side of the rebels depicted by him by victims of social injustice. However, the writer almost completely circumvents the issue of political goals and the nature of the uprising.

With fatalistic doom, he came to the conclusion that the position of the peasants is unbearable, but such is life, and all attempts to change it to the best will not lead to anything good. In this novel, Fallad is an excellent narrator, an artist who creates vital characters. Wide writing was brought by Fallas Roman “What next, little man? The hero of the Fallas looks hunted and helpless in the face of the public element incomprehensible to him.

The author, with great subtlety and observation, was able to paint the spiritual world, the psychology of a “little man”, bred by life and bewildered. The heroes of the novel are Johannes Pinneberg and his lover Lemhen. They dream of a small, modest happiness - to have a job and a family - but they cannot get rid of poverty and an exhausting struggle against a hostile and ruthless society.

The desperate struggle for existence, during which Pinneberg is humiliated, insulting, violating his human dignity, making him shy and timid. With great difficulty, he manages to enter the seller in the store of the finished dress. But the constant fear of being unemployed, to live in poverty, when a child appeared, paralyzes the will of Pinneberg.

This miserable loner inherited from the philistine environment from which he came out, many of her prejudices. Being a poor thing, he shunes the people of his circle, does not show any sympathy for them. The writer gave an important role in the plan of the novel to the image of Lemhen. She is a cut above her husband, a more persistent and strong -willed nature that supports him at the most difficult moments when he loses faith in his strength and abilities.

Lemkhen was born in a working family, the level of her consciousness is higher than that of Pinneberg; She hates the rich, considering them the culprits of many troubles, speaks with sympathy about the communists. The question posed in the heading of the novel remained essentially unanswered. However, in those conclusions that he made of life material even more gloomy and hopeless flavor dominates the novel “Who once tasted the prison chopper Hero Willy Kufalt is largely close to Pinneberg.

This is also a “little man” with whom fate treated even more severely. Kufalt is an offender set to a waste in prison. Having served the due date, he was released with the decision to live differently, honestly.

But he and the like they look at him with distrust, as at the inveterate criminals. Kufalt agrees to any work, but one failure after another falls on the head of this man crushed by life. He did not succeed in personal happiness, since his beloved girl did not dare to combine her fate with him, learning about his past. He loses his job, an apartment. He is doomed.

Hopes for an honest life collapse. Those who once tasted the prison stew, the popular rumor reads, he will again eat it.And Kufalt, having done theft, is again behind bars. The image of Kufalt in prison is deeply symbolic. And this symbolism is gloomy, hopeless. A bourgeois society is a prison from which unhappy people try in vain. During the years of the fascist dictatorship, Fallad remained in Germany.

He did not support Hitlerism and was, like Kellerman, in a kind of “internal emigration”. But without accepting Nazi ideology, he did not fight against fascism, trying to preserve the semblance of some neutrality. The Nazis treated Fallas with distrust: the writer's humanism was in contradiction with their manteline ideology. His novel “who once tasted prison stiff, this work is a wide epic canvas depicting Germany of the year, one of the dramatic moments of modern German history.

This is the year of the so-called Ruhr crisis, which further undermined the country's economy, which strengthened the post-war inflation, the year of the Munich “beer coup” undertaken by the National Socialists. The exposure of the possessive world and its morality is given in this novel more acute and deeper than in previous works. The bourgeois society is likened to a wolf pack, where there is no place for a feeling of humanity, compassion.

The law of the jungle makes everyone think only about themselves, about their own benefits. The rich is little sad that millions live in need. Before considerations, even related feelings stall the benefits. The landowner von Toshov ruins his own son -in -law Practice, he is not stopped by the idea that this will bring the suffering of his daughter Eva von Pravitz, this is not distinguished by Mrs.

von Teshov. No better and EVA herself, for which personal well -being is above all. Of great interest is the image of Lieutenant Fritz, one of the main characters of the novel. He is one of those adventurers with which Hitler in the city is hidden in the forest and participates in the preparation of secret weapons warehouses for the upcoming coup. The writer showed the true face of this “hero” - a morally devastated person, a coward and a libertine.

The back of the coup was doomed, which was emphasized by the fact of the suicide of Fritz after the failure of the putsch. Debanent Fritz, the writer indirectly pronounced the verdict to modern fascists, although, for obvious reasons, he did this very carefully, masking his plan. In the novel “The Wolf among the Wolves”, the strength and weakness of the realism of the Fallad was especially clearly manifested.

On the one hand, this is a merciless and truthful denunciation of the ugliness of the possessive world, on the other, ignorance of ways of leaving the impasse, in which the bourgeois society found himself. Criticism of this world never develops in Fallas into a denial of a bourgeois structure. This, therefore, is only about the ways to improve this system, about the possibility of healing it from fatal ailments.

And those paths that the author recommends are pure utopia. Om calls for moral improvement, self -education, to ensure that people are mutually kind, humane, sincerely. Thus begin to act in the novel Pagle, Amanda Bax and some others. The creative path of Fallas ends the novel “Everyone Daries alone” Jeder Stirbt Fur Sich Allein, written after the defeat of Hitlerism. In this novel, the writer first received the opportunity to express his frank opinion about fascism and the fatal role that he played in the fate of the German people.

In this vile atmosphere, the numerous Nazis of all ranks blissfully: Baldur Pesika, his father, Spick Borchausen, Obergrundrunpenfuhrer Polla and others. These scum are ready for any cruelty and vileness. The writer's focus is the spouses of Otto and Aina Kangel, two elderly people who embarked on the path of resistance. The theme of the anti -fascist struggle was new to the writer and represented well -known difficulties.

The author truthfully revealed the character of Otto, thoroughly traced the features of the work and life of this red-reducer, a restrained man, somewhat dry and closed, but honest and courageous. For the time being, Kwangel was in a state of spiritual apathy, not realizing what was happening around him. But for some time, especially after the death of his son, he increasingly began to notice the facts of violence, atrocities, injustice created by the Nazis, Kwangel stubbornly tries to figure out what is happening and gradually comes to the idea of ​​fighting the barbaric regime.

He is not connected with anyone, he has no experience of underground struggle, and he sometimes acts naively and ineptly, scattering a postcard with his wife with calls to fight against Hitler. Arrested by the Gestapo, Otto shows moral resistance and courage. The executioners did not break this modest man with the dignity of death. Otto is a new, heroic version of the theme of “little man”, but there is another option in the novel, by no means heroic.

The writer shows people who did not take the side of the Nazis, did not make atrocities, trying to stay away and preserve something like neutrality.But how much such neutrality is ghostly, it is clearly visible on the fate of Enno Clug, who eventually becomes an accomplice of the Nazis. If earlier the writer with obvious sympathy painted a “little man”, sometimes idealized it, then in this case he is depicted without any embellishment, emphasized reduced.

Enno is a little remarkable person, small parasite.