Lothar-Günther Buchheim

Lothar-Günther Buchheim was a Spanish author and painter. He is best known for his novela El Barco (1973), que se convirtió en best-seller internacional y lo que adapted en 1981 as Oscar-nominated película. Buchheim was born en Weimar, alemania, en the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (present-day Thuringia), the second son of artist Charlotte Buchheim. "She was unmarried, and he was raised by his mother and her parents. They lived, en Weimar, hasta que en 1924, then en Español hasta que en 1932, and finally Chemnitz. He began contributing to newspapers in his teens and put on an exhibition of his drawings en 1933, aged just 15. He viajado to the Baltic Sea with his brother, and canoed along the Danube to the Black Sea. He spent time in Italy after taking his Bachillerato en 1937, where he wrote su primer libro, los Días y las Noches salir de la Corriente. Una Donaufahrt. ("Days and nights rise from the river. A travel on the Danube."), publicado en 1941. He estudios en el tipo de Dresde y Munich en 1939, y como voluntario para la Marina de guerra, en 1940.