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Kästner was not sent to the front, but the brutality of the military training he underwent and the death of contemporaries he experienced strongly influenced his later antimilitarism. The merciless drilling he was subjected to by his drill sergeant also caused a lifelong heart condition.
Nazis and students burn “anti-German literature” in the Opernplatz, Berlin on May 10, 1933 – including books by Erich Kästner, who attended the bonfire in secret. Photo: Keystone. “‘More than 50 years have passed since then,’ declares the calendar, that old bookkeeper in the office of history, who controls chronology and with ink ...
Oct 8, 2018 · An intoxicating book that reads like a ramble through the dark side of Berlin shortly before the Nazis came to power. Erich Kästner had to watch his novel about life in the big city go up in...
Jan 26, 2008 · Erich Kaestner, a soldier believed to have been Germany's last World War I veteran, died Jan. 1 at a nursing home in Cologne at the age of 107, his son said Friday.
Jan 26, 2008 · Erich Kaestner, who at 18 was sent to the Western Front but served only four months in the army, died in a Cologne nursing home, his son said. The death on Sunday of Louis de Cazenave, France's...
Jan 27, 2008 · Jan. 27, 2008. BERLIN (AP) Erich Kaestner, believed to be the last German veteran of World War I, died Jan. 1 in Cologne. He was 107. No organization keeps track of remaining veterans in...
Jan 13, 2021 · On the night of May 10, 1933, the children’s author Erich Kästner left his Berlin home and watched as his books were burned by the Nazis. The weather was “funereal,” he described his impression of that night in the Opernplatz.
