Heinrich Böll: Trouble­makers in the Nest

„The troublemakers are always sitting right in the middle of the nest anyway. It is difficult to soil a nest from the outside.“

Heinrich BöllHeinrich Böll reflects on internal criticism, belonging, and the difficulty of judging a community from the outside.
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Heinrich Böll was a German writer and an important author of the postwar period.

Heinrich Böll pointedly reflects on internal criticism, belonging, and the difficulty of judging a community from the outside.


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Heinrich Theodor Böll (1917–1985) was a German writer from Cologne. As a narrator of postwar German literature, he depicted urban destruction, the hunger and hardship of survivors, and the homecoming and disillusionment of returning soldiers. His well-known short stories include “Wanderer, kommst du nach Spa…,” “The Bread of Our Early Years,” and “Dr. Murke’s Collected Silences.”

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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad." C. S. Lewis
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