Wolfgang Koeppen (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wolfgang Arthur Reinhold Koeppen (23 June 1906-15 March 1996) is one of the best known German authors of the post-war period. Koeppen was born out of wedlock in Greifswald to a seamstress. His father never accepted the fatherhood formally. He lived first in his grandmother's house on Bahnhofstrasse, but moved after her death in 1908 together with his mother to her sister in Ortelsburg (Szczytno), East Prussia, where Koeppen started visiting the public school. He and his mother moved back to Greifswald in 1912, but only two years later returned to East Prussia. Koeppen came back to Greifswald after World War I, working as a delivery boy for a book dealer.