Lore Berger Explained

Lore Berger
Birth Name:Lenore Berger
Birth Date:17 December 1921
Birth Place:Basel, Switzerland
Death Place:Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
Occupation:Author, translator
Language:German
Nationality:Swiss
Education:University of Basel
Notableworks:Der barmherzige Hügel, 1943

Lore Berger (17 December 1921  - 14 August 1943) was a Swiss writer who committed suicide at the age of 21.

Biography

Berger was born in Basel into a family of teachers. In 1939 she entered the University of Basel. During World War II served in the army. At that time she was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. Her first novel, Der barmherzige Hügel, was written in 1943 for a literary competition.[1] Lore Berger committed suicide on 14 August 1943 at the age of 21. Her book was published after her death. In 1981 the book was adapted by a German film director Beat Kuert into a movie Die Zeit ist böse.[2]

Notable works

Sources

  1. Web site: Lore Berger in Bibliomedia . 11 October 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180426144245/http://www.bibliomedia.ch/de/autoren/Berger_Lore/121.html . 26 April 2018 . dead .
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20121103054547/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/157555/Die-Zeit-Is-Bose/overview NY Times review. “Die Zeit Is Bose”
  3. Web site: Berger, Lore. World Cat Identities.