Peter Hacks (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Peter Hacks (21 March 1928 - 28 August 2003) was a German playwright, author, and essayist.Hacks was born in Breslau (Wroc aw), Lower Silesia. Displaced by World War II, Hacks settled in Munich in 1947, where he made acquaintance with Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht. Hacks then followed Brecht to East Berlin in 1955, where the two collaborated closely.Although Hacks initially faced disapproval from the literary watchdogs of the GDR, his success on the world stage-most notably with "Ein Gespr ch im Hause Stein ber den abwesenden Herrn von Goethe" (A Discussion in the Stein Home about the Absent Mr. Goethe)--led to his literary acceptance within the party leadership.