Hans Carossa

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Hans Carossa (15 December 1878– 12 September 1956) was a German novelist and poet, known mostly for his autobiographical novels.

He was born in Bad Tölz, and studied medicine, working as a field surgeon from 1916 to 1918.

He was awarded the Swiss Gottfried Keller Prize in 1931, and the Goethe Prize in 1938.

He died in Rittsteig bei Passau.


[edit] Works

  • Eine Kindheit (1922) novel, translated as Childhood
  • A Roumanian Diary (1924), about the 3 months he spent as a military physician on the Romanian Front during WWI.
  • Verwandlungen einer Jugend (1928) novel
  • Doctor Gion (1931)
  • Führung und Geleit (1933) essays
  • Tagebuch eines jungen Arztes (1955)
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