“The Abitur is the true homeland of the German” – Heinrich Böll

„The Abitur is the true homeland of the German.“

Heinrich BöllHeinrich Böll’s quotation about the Abitur explores education, school, and German identity in a pointed literary form.
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Heinrich Böll was a German writer and an important author of the postwar period.

Heinrich Böll’s pointed quotation explores the formative significance of the Abitur for education and German identity.


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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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