PC/4 - Wolfgang Hildesheimer

PC/4

Series

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

1948-2005

1 box

Hildesheimer, Wolfgang (1916-1991)

Wolfgang Hildesheimer, was a novelist, playwright and painter whose 1977 biography of Mozart became an international best seller. His novels included ‘Marbot’, a fictional biography of an imaginary historical figure in Victorian England.

He served as an interpreter at the Nuremberg war crimes trials where he met Patricia Crampton circa 1947. They had plans to marry however these were dropped in April 1949 due to Patricia’s father’s objections. See letter PC/4/1/5.

[In a letter dd 27/4/99 to Wenda Focke, PC describes her father's anti-Semitism PC/4/3/12].

In 1984 Patricia was awarded the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for her translation of Wolfgang’s ‘Marbot’, a fictional biography.

Wolfgang lived out his life in Switzerland.

This archive contains correspondence between Patricia and Wolfgang’s biographer Wenda Focke (however the biography does not appear to have been published). Patricia also corresponds with Wolfgang’s second wife Silvia, in gathering information on Wolfgang.