Petuchowski, Elizabeth

Wolfgang Hildesheimer, novelist, playwright, and painter. He became know for his satirical writings in the post-World War II era and then for his biographies of Mozart and Sir Andrew Marbot.

Hildesheimer was born December 9, 1916 in Hamburg, Germany, but he was raised in Berlin, Nijmegen, and Mannheim. Hildesheimer, along with his family, emigrated to England in 1933 and moved on to Palestine in the same year. At 18, he began training as a carpenter and interior decorator in Jerusalem, but in his early 20s he began studying art and stage design in Salzburg and then London. He then worked as an English teacher at the British Institute in Tel Aviv and in 1943, became an information officer in the British Public Information Office in Jerusalem. In 1946, he took a job that would undoubtedly come to affect his literary career when he was hired as an interpreter at the Nuremberg war crimes trials.

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