Hartmut Lange was born in Berlin Spandau, 1937. After studying dramaturgy at the Babelsberg Academy of Film, he started working as a dramaturge in 1960 in East Berlin. After leaving for a trip to Yugoslavia, however, he did not return to the GDR. Instead, he went to West Berlin, working as a dramaturge at various prestigious theaters. Lange’s plays, essays, and prose have won many awards, among them the Gerhart Hauptmann and the Laure-Bataillon Prize.
Stark Decency is a window into the events of two vastly different worlds: German combat veterans captured in North Africa and Normandy, and the…
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