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The Outsider
Author(s): Wolfgang Borchert
Also translated as The Man Oustide, dramatizes the despair of the disillusioned World War II German veteran from the Eastern front, Beckmann, who discovers upon his return home he has lost his wife and his home. He is rejected everywhere he turns and he seems to commits suicide in the Elbe River.
Format: Drama
Cast Size:10M/6F
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Original or Prominent Production:
1947 in Hamburg
1947 in Hamburg
Nationality of Author: German
Original Language: German
Publisher:
New Directions; Revised edition, June 1971
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