Talk:Hans Fallada

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 * An appreciaton of Hans fallada by Billy Childish.
 * Hans Fallada, real name Ditzen, borrowed his pen name from a horse from grims a fairy tail ‘the goose girl’. Falada the horse told the truth even after his head had been cut off. I came across my copy of The Drinker in a second hand bookshop in Portland, seven years back. It was a great find. I walk up the asiles of bookshops staring at the rows of dull books, desperate to find something that really connects. If the title sound interesting I pull the book out and scan the first page. That’s enough. Inverably I replace the book and walk out empty handed. . . I hardly ever come up with anything I can read.
 * Not so with fallada, I stood and read the first two pages smiling from ear to ear. Fallada tells of our trueist heart and fuck–ups, not of our cleverness and conquests. On this score he is closer to fante than Bukowski, who at his worst can come across like the anti-hero of some doidgy 40’s detective movie.
 * The drinker is fallader’s last but one novel. The story followes a busness man’s disent into hell. It is semi autobiographical, dealing with alcholisim rather than fallada’s real nemisis - morphine. I know this teritory, I am an ex acholic and my father was an alcholic bisnessman. Fallada paints it as it is, obseving all the bloated and painfull emotions. His achivment is managing to make us cear for this big blaming baby: the hero, as well as cringe at his egotistcal paronoia. Fallada is capable of real sentiment but is never scarcrin. Read him, it will do you good.
 * The Drinker is available now, as is his other master piece Little Man - What Now?, and there are other great books by fallada just waighting to be translated from the German. Demand to read them, lets make these books become available, co’s there’s not enough out there that touchs us on such a human level. Yes, Fallada is a great humanbeing, a great writer and champion of the little man. The drinker is vital and real. Let fallada have his place in our hearts. Buy a second copy for your alcholic father, husband or frend.

Tyrenius 16:55, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

New translations?
3 new English editions of his novels came out in 2009. One, Every Man Dies Alone, has never been translated before and is a new translation. The other two, it is unclear if these are new translations, or if they are simply re-publishing previous English translations (which do exist). Before removing the fact tag, please specify who the translator is. A new "edition" doesn't always mean a new "translation". Green Cardamom (talk) 03:34, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Paintings
As well as The Drinker, which is only loosely inspired by Fallada's work, Childish has also produced at least three (more realist) portraits of Fallada: "The Soft Ashes of Berlin Snowing on Hans Fallada's Nose" (oil on canvas, 2010), "Hans Fallada" (charcoal on paper, 2010) and "Hans Fallada (The Drinker)" (oil on canvas, 2010) which might better illustrate the subject.FrFintonStack (talk) 13:54, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

What is this?
In the section "Writing career and encounters with National Socialism" one reads -

"he began to draw some additional scrutiny from the government in the form of denunciations of his work by Nazi authors and publications, who also noted that he had not joined the Party." - What is this? The whole passage is very weird. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:16B8:425D:D200:5D4A:3853:CE9E:6F79 (talk) 19:48, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

What is this?
At the end of the section "Death and legacy" one reads -

Thomas Mann "expressed harsh condemnation for writers like Fallada, who thought opponents of Nazism made concessions which compromised their work."

The last sentence in that section is - "The Hans Fallada Prize, a literary prize awarded by the city of Neumünster, was named after the author." - That the "Hans Fallada Prize" was named after the author is a tautology. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:16B8:425D:D200:5D4A:3853:CE9E:6F79 (talk) 20:00, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

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the article needs major grooming to neutralize
The article has had contents massively injected by use of at least four accounts and an IP by the author's publisher Melville House Publishing. It would require going through each of the sources cited and checking for truly neutral presentation Graywalls (talk) 04:02, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Most of the text appears to have been added July 2008 to January 2009. This diff shows that block. As for sources, they only added two, one to this NYT article, and one to Jenny Williams who wrote the most comprehensive and recent English-language biography of Fallada titled More Lives than One (1998). A paperback version was published by Melville in 2009 but the original was published before Melville House existed. Melville House is also seen as having rediscovered, reissued and popularized this author in the 2000s, due to an exclusive relationship formed with the author's relative for translation and publication rights. So, there is nothing wrong with using Williams's book since that is our best source. There is nothing wrong with discussing Melville House's role as significant because it is. The problem is that Melville House also edited the Wikipedia article. 11 years ago. In the intervening 11 years, the article has seen a lot of changes by many other editors, there is now twice as much text as 2009 and 100s of edits by dozens of editors. For example the COI editors added "one of the most famous German writers of the 20th century" which has since been removed.

To take an example paragraph they wrote:
 * In 1899 at the age of 6, Fallada's father relocated the family to Berlin following the first of several promotions he would receive. Fallada had a very difficult time upon first entering school in 1901. As a result, he immersed himself in books, eschewing literature more in line with his age for authors including Flaubert, Dostoevsky, and Dickens. In 1909 the family again relocated to Leipzig following his father's appointment to the Imperial Supreme Court.

This is basic biographical information. Dates, events. Most of the text is like that. The question is, what is the problem with this paragraph, or others like it? There is no evidence of information being manufactured, and this text is neutrally presented. Text like "one of the most famous German writers of the 20th century" is the sort of thing we should be removing, and it appears over the last 11 years it has been neutralized. I do not see other obvious red flags other than the need for more inline sourcing, and the Sources section is extensive. -- Green  C  01:59, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Adolf or Friedrich?
See oldest version and this edit. —Mykhal (talk) 21:56, 3 December 2022 (UTC)