Heinrich Böll
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Literature — 1972for his writing which through its combination of a broad perspective on his time and a sensitive skill in characterization has contributed to a renewal of German literature
- Citizenship
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Germany - Languages
- German
- date of birth
- 12/21/1917
- place of birth
- Cologne
- date of death
- 7/16/1985
- place of death
- Langenbroich
- Lived
- 67 years
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- position held
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- chairperson
- start time: 1972
- end time: 1973
- chairperson
- member of
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- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1983
- German Academy for Language and Literature
- Academy of Arts, Berlin
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
- American Philosophical Society
- notable work
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- Der Mann mit den Messern
- Black Sheep
- Domestic Disturbance
- The Clown
- And Never Said a Word
- The Silent Angel
- The Balek Scales
- Doctor Murkes total silence
- End of a Mission
- Cross Without Love
- Christmas Not Just Once a Year
- What's to Become of the Boy?
- Stranger, Bear Word to the Spartans We…
- The Safety Net
- And where were you, Adam?
- Reports on the Nation's Disposition
- The Train Was on Time
- The Bread of Those Early Years
- Zimpren Station
- Those Without Traces
- Distance to the Troop
- Women in a river landscape. A novel in dialogues and soliloquies
- Group Portrait with Lady
- House without Guardians
- Valley of Thundering Hooves
- Irish Journal
- When the War was Over
- When War Broke Out
- A Soldier's Legacy
- Billiards at Half-past Nine
- The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
- work location
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- Cologne
- occupation
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- writer
- poet
- Nobel Prize winner
- translator
- lyricist
- public figure
- novelist
- screenwriter
- educated at
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- University of Cologne
- field of work
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- creative and professional writing
- fiction
- radio drama
- translation