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Lothar-Günther Buchheim
Writer
- Born
- February 6, 1918
- Died
- February 22, 2007 (age 89)
- From
- Weimar, Germany
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lothar-Günther Buchheim was a German author and painter. He is best known for his novel Das Boot (1973), which became an international bestseller and was adapted in 1981 as an Oscar-nominated film. Buchheim was born in Weimar, in the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (present-day Thuringia), the second son of artist Charlotte Buchheim. She was unmarried,…
