Wolfgang Held obituary

My husband, Wolfgang Held, who has died aged 83, was a writer, artist, musician and translator who brought key British and Irish literary figures to a wider German public.Born in Freiburg, Germany, the son of Fritz, a tax collector, and his wife, Louise (nee Frey), Wolfgang had a traumatic childhood spent under the Nazi regime, sheltering in cellars from bombing raids, as described in his novel Rabenkind (Raven Child, 1985). Continue reading...