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BIOGRAPHY Hildesheimer was born of Jewish parents in Hamburg . After studying carpentry in Palestine, where his parents had emigrated, he studied painting and stage building in London. In 1946 he worked as a translator and clerk at the Nuremberg Trials . Afterward, he worked as a writer and was a member of Group 47 . In 1980, he gave the inaugural address at the Salzburg Festival (''Was sagt Musik aus?'' — ''What does music say?''). In addition to writing, Hildesheimer created Collages , which he collected in several volumes (the first ''Einlich allein'', 1984), an activity he shared with other late 20th century writers Peter Weiss and Ror Wolf . WORK
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