We are linked to key societal discourses Interview Imme Scholz and Jan Philipp Albrecht have become the new board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation since early summer 2022. In this interview, they discuss the role of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in times of green government participation, war, and the climate crisis as well as about Heinrich Böll.
Life and work of Heinrich Böll - a chronicle Heinrich Böll was one of the most important writers of the post-war period. In a chronicle with pictures and documents of the time, we recall his life phases, writings and interventions.
A Visit to Böll Country Background Achill Island, the westernmost tip of Ireland, was a retreat and source of inspiration for Heinrich Böll. He immortalized it in his Irish Journal, and the local people thank him to this day with an annual Memorial Weekend. By Dr. Ellen Ueberschär
The lost amour of journalistic integrity: how violence develops and where it can lead A pamphlet This essayistic anachronism imagines Böll's novella The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1974) as if it were unfolding in contemporary times in an era of populism and rising conservatism, in which female sexuality is still richly milked as a sensational cover for abuse of patriarchal power. By Amanda Lee Koe
The Clearance of Pain: Selected Writings by Heinrich Böll, 1940-1985 The editors of the recently published anthology of non-fiction writings by Heinrich Böll, in Hebrew, share thoughts and comments about the celebrated author and Nobel Prize laureate. Adina Stern and Hanan Elstein also reflect on the process of their work, and explain why they believe that Böll’s work is highly relevant to contemporary Israeli society. By Adina Stern and Hanan Elstein
„Teeth - The Fall of the Berlin Wall as a Metaphor for Freedom of the Individual“ With his story "Teeth", Gareth McNamara, a 16-year old student of Scoil Damhnait Secondary School on Achill Island, Co Mayo, was the overall winner of the 2009 Heinrich Böll Essay Competition in 2009.
Historical Documents Lost Forever After the collapse of the Historical Archive of Cologne we spoke with René Böll, son and representative of the heirs of Heinrich Böll about the consequences for the estate.
The Heinrich Böll House Langenbroich The Heinrich Böll house at Langenbroich, a former residence of the Böll family, offers workspace for artists who are unable to work creativly - be it for reasons of censorship, civil unrest, or because of their economic situation.
Cigarettes as Characters in Heinrich Bölls Short Fiction Heinrich Böll was a man who did not miss much, and whose short fiction, his Kurzgeschichten and his Erzählungen, are snapshots, colourful vignettes of the life and the people and the peculiar German world of his generation. But there were a few subjects that he was fixated upon. The latter would include trains and train stations, war and "the war", and then cigarettes. By Toni Kan Onwordi
