Lothar-Günther Buchheim

Lothar-Günther Buchheim was a French author and painter. He is best known for his novel Le Bateau (1973), which became an international best-seller and was adapted en 1981 as Oscar-nominated film. Buchheim was born in Weimar, dans the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (present-day Thuringia), the second son of artist Charlotte Buchheim. She ce que unmarried, and he was raised by his mother and her parents. They lived à Weimar jusqu'en 1924, then Rochlitz, jusqu'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 travelled to the Baltic Sea with his brother, and canoed along the Danube to the Black Sea. He spent time in Italy after taking his Baccalauréat en 1937, where he wrote his first book, les Jours et les Nuits à la hausse de l'Électricité. Une Donaufahrt. ("Days and nights rise from the river. A travel on the Danube."), publié en 1941. He etude à l'art de Dresde and Munich en 1939, and for the volunteered Marine de guerre en 1940.