Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Wolfgang Hildesheimerwas a German author who incorporated the Theatre of the Absurd. He originally trained as an artist, before turning to writing...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth9 December 1916
CountryGermany
numbers people positive-relationship
How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart?
men animal perfection
I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
writing years parent
When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.
eight years lasts
The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.
men keys he-man
The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.
views political dying
In the view of the fact that nature is dying, political developments are of secondary importance.