I’ve found this forum while I was searching for information about this author.
He was a World War II veteran and afterwards he wrote books until he died, in 1989.
Unfortunately, it seems that he didn’t makes success.
I’ve searched for information about his books – I live in Italy, and here he appeared in print decades ago. There aren’t any essays neither articles. I went to Berlin and asked for him in many bookshops: his name wasn’t on author catalogs. I’m studying German but I’m not still able to work with German sources, therefore I have not an exactly idea of his notoriety in Germany.
But he’s very interesting, and I would write something about him, that’s why I’m here. He is ironic, sharp, sarcastic, cynical – he gives a description of the WWII experience without trying to convince readers that National Socialism was a good or a bad thing. Criticism without judgment.
So I am here, asking you if somebody knows him.
In the meanwhile, I suggest you Fabrik der Offiziere - less famous than The night of the generals, but IMHO sharper. (I didn’t like the movie The night of the generals, with Peter O’Toole, 1967 – there isn’t any irony in it, and General Tanz appears like an old-fashioned nazi-idol ready to demonstrate how evil and inhuman Nazism was, and nothing else.)
You will find WWII daily life description, and bureaucracy and so on. Nothing epic but fiction that smells true.