Elizabeth Petuchowski Collection of Wolfgang Hildesheimer Material 1955-1994

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Elizabeth Petuchowski Collection of Wolfgang Hildesheimer Material 1955-1994

Materials relating to German author Wolfgang Hildesheimer collected by Elizabeth Petuchowski

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Petuchowski, Elizabeth

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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 decorato...