Heinrich Böll

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.

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.