Das Treibhaus

The Hothouse

Author

Wolfgang Koeppen

Language

German

Year

1953

First Pub.

Germany

Genre

Novel

modern europe

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Das Treibhaus is a 1953 novel by the German author Wolfgang Koeppen. It is the second work in what has become known as the "Trilogy of Failure", a series of three novels examining postwar West German society. Set during the Cold War and the debate over West German rearmament, the novel takes place largely in Bonn, the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany.