Talk:Heinrich Böll

Uwe Boll
Heinrich Böll had three sons: Raimund, René and Vincent born 1947, 1948 and 1950 as you can easily see in the German wikipedia. Uwe Boll (even the last name is different) was born in 1965 and is definitely NOT a son of Heinrich Böll - whatever you might think of his novels...

broken link
The Link "The Heinrich Böll Page" http://www.electroasylum.com/boll/ is not working ... cut it out ... RE: The link seems to work just fine, though the website does not seem particularly informative.

Link http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/Fiction/Boll.htm does not work...

Question
Is his name Heinrich Theodor Böll or Heinrich Böll only? --AFP 14:13, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Why is this article so utterly strange?
This is the wikipedia article on a Nobel prize winner. But it is [in its current version] utterly strange, and does not even bother to list a single one of his books? The "Literature" list gives us twenty books about his wondrous novels, which is fine, but of course the article needs to mention his best books, something about his life, etc. This is perhaps not a major problem, as we may go to any other "lesser language" wikipedia to learn about Böll, but it remains a strange and very weak article for an encyclopaedia in an ostensibly important language like English. Slavatrudu (talk) 11:52, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It's strange because someone had messed it up, someone else had removed the mess, but forgotten to put back the original paragraphs. The're back now, and I've cleaned out a few chunks of vandalism. I also removed the claim that Böll lost his toes in WWII due to frostbite, actually he had surgery on his left foot in the 70s - he was a heavy smoker... Asav (talk) 14:07, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

The Clown
I realize that "The Clown" in this passage is written "The Clown (novel)" I couldn't fix it, but if anyone could fix it in a way that the link doesn't change, that would be great. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pourya93 (talk • contribs) 16:49, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Mention of W. Morris is figurative
Reference to William Morris in the Biography section has a figurative sound about it and doesn't appear to be based on facts:
 * ''Böll seemed to be a pupil of William Morris - he made known that..."

William Morris died in 1896 and Heinrich Böll was born in 1917 - so the statement of one being another's teacher can't be factual and is a figure of speech. Such a thing would look good in a book or essay on art - but it's not appropriate for an encyclopedia. 212.58.193.36 (talk) 17:04, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Copyright problem
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 * Just to note that I checked the edit in question and reverted the bot since there was no copyvio in this particular case, just an external ref added. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 09:17, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Died in Germanry?
In 1985, there was East Germany & West Germany. GoodDay (talk) 23:22, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

He was the first German-born author to receive this award since Nelly Sachs in 1966.
this might not even be worth mentioning.. and i am unfamiliar with B&ouml;ll's (and Sachs') work, but i came across this article from reading about something else, and went to the biography section to learn more about B&ouml;ll and the wording of sentence in my subject line seemed.. odd?

He was the first German-born author to receive this award since Nelly Sachs in 1966.

making a point to say that a person is the first of their nationality/gender/ethnic-background/other-definable-characteristic to accomplish something since the last person of the same defining characteristic did, is usually followed by a date that is longer than 6 years prior. the last german-born author to win before Sachs was Hermann Hesse in 1946, spanning 20 years, and there's no mention of this fact in Sachs (or Hesse's) article.

this bit of information about Sachs seems like a piece of trivia that would be used in a final jeopardy clue or that Sheldon Cooper would use to berate someone with for not instantly knowing, while the audience laughs uncontrollably because words are coming out of his mouth.

but, at the same time it's made me spend a good 20 minutes reading about different nobel laureates in literature.

i'm being stupid. i'm probably just nitpicking and should really go eat something and adjust my blood sugar. '''&asymp;Sensorsweep (talk) 03:58, 21 April 2013 (UTC)


 * done Sasha (talk) 19:04, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

self-ref in "Influences"
Ref. 12 ( "Heinrich Böll". Princeton. Retrieved 20 July 2014.) is a reference to an archived version of this very article. This makes the "Influences" part unreferenced (in addition to several other issues in this section, e.g. the mention of W. Morris, several other figurative passages, et cet.). I would suggest to remove this section completely for now, and maybe write a new one later. Sasha (talk) 18:49, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
 * commented it out. Sasha (talk) 19:53, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

drug use
Would be nice to read a bit more about his Pervitin (Crystal Meth) addiction. I've only seen http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/crystal-meth-origins-link-back-to-nazi-germany-and-world-war-ii-a-901755.html but there must be more information? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:A62:243:2101:E838:71FD:3A08:3D96 (talk) 08:24, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

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