“A MAN-PEASANT”

Wolfgang Borchert (1921–1947) is one of the most outstanding representatives of German post-war literature. In the 30s he was arrested twice for anti-fascist persuasions, sentenced to death, pardoned, the war years he served his time in the units of wehrmacht, and returned to the motherland terminally ill. The play “The Man Outside” (1946) that had a deafening success in Germany was written in just one week — he talked in it about the tragedy of not understanding, alienation of two generations from each other — those who had passed the front and stayed on the home front, who had learned nothing and understood nothing. The representative of the second one is one of the most famous painters and graphic artists — Emil Nolde (1867–1956). Everything divides them, starting from the age, down to life experience.