The writer Wolfgang Borchert (1921-1947) was one of the most important representatives of the so-called Trümmerliteratur [Rubble Literature]. During the war, he was charged several times with undermining the morale of the military; he was wounded on the frontline and became gravely ill at the war’s end. He died in 1947 at the age of twenty-six. He wrote powerful short stories and poems and became widely known through the stage adaptation of his radio play Draußen vor der Tür [The Man Outside].