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The Week in Germany: Culture March 2, 2007 Das Boot Author Lothar-Günther Buchheim Dies at 89
Lothar-Günther Buchheim, the German author, painter, and art collector who wrote the World War II submarine epic Das Boot, died last week at 89 of heart failure. Based on his own experiences as a military reporter on a submarine during World War II, Buchheim’s anti-war novel commanded attention for its raw depiction of U-boat life and became an international bestseller when it was released in 1973. Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 film adaptation under the same title became the second highest-grossing German film in America (following Petersen’s The Never Ending Story).
Buchheim also leaves behind an impressive collection of German expressionist art, housed in the Buchheim Museum of Imagination in the town of Bernried outside of Munich. Buchheim began purchasing expressionist masterpieces that had formerly been declared "degenerate art" under the Nazi regime after World War II. Today, his collection includes works from Max Beckmann, Ernst Ludwig-Kirchner, Karl-Schmidt Rottluff, and Emil Nolde, as well as a large collection of folk art from across the world. The son of the painter Charlotte Buchheim, Lothar-Günther began
painting and drawing as a child before studying at the Academies of Art
in Dresden and Munich. The Buchheim Museum is currently showing a retrospective
on Buchheim’s life, including many of his own paintings. |
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