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Wulfmann
02-23-07, 12:49 PM
Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, the German author and art collector best known for his autobiographical novel Das Boot, has died at the age of 89.:cry:
Wulfmann
Carotio
02-23-07, 12:53 PM
Well, 89 years of age and having survived on a u-boat, then a man can't ask for much more...
RIP
Noo!:cry:
I just read it! So sad! One of the last connections to our passion is gone!:-?
RIP Herr Buchheim.
Mögen sie ihren Frieden finden.
Iron Budokan
02-23-07, 01:26 PM
Sad news, but his work has made him immortal.
Linavitch
02-23-07, 01:32 PM
RIP Herr Buchheim.
CptGrayWolf
02-23-07, 01:35 PM
I have learned more about life on a U-boat from Das Boot then any other book.
One minute of silence in his honor and that of his colleagues on eternal patrol:cry:
I wrote Buchheim about two years ago and his health was in a slow decline at that time.
In memory of L-G Buchheim...Fair winds and following seas...
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i262/Kaleun/L-GBuchheim.jpg
(From my personal collection)
Dante80
02-23-07, 01:42 PM
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/1184/silentserviceiiscreenshru4.pnghttp://www.subsim.com/radioroom/%5BIMG%5Dhttp://img139.imageshack.us/img139/1184/silentserviceiiscreenshru4.png%5B/IMG%5D
robbierob2005
02-23-07, 03:25 PM
RIP :cry::cry::cry:
Torvald Von Mansee
02-23-07, 03:43 PM
This reminds me when I was looking at online biographies of u-boat captains. Every now and then, I'd come across one w/out a death date, which implied the guy was still alive. I thought there was at least one top ten u-boat ace still alive, for example.
robbo180265
02-23-07, 03:52 PM
It's a real shame- finally got around to buying the full length version of "Das Boot" a week ago, Is there a book? I think I want to read that now.
R.I.P
Carotio
02-23-07, 04:09 PM
It's a real shame- finally got around to buying the full length version of "Das Boot" a week ago, Is there a book? I think I want to read that now.
R.I.P
Yes, there's a book! Don't know, if it comes in an english version, maybe! But I have it in the german version, so if you want that one, you can go to your book store with this info:
Lothar-Günther Buchheim
Das Boot
1973 Piper Verlag GmbH, München
ISBN 3-492-22000-2
Personally, I started reading in it last summer, I takes it down to read further now and then, I'm at page 120 now. It's 597 pages, so it takes some time to read. But as always: the book contains much more than a movie (or a tv-serie)!
robbo180265
02-23-07, 04:21 PM
It's a real shame- finally got around to buying the full length version of "Das Boot" a week ago, Is there a book? I think I want to read that now.
R.I.P
Yes, there's a book! Don't know, if it comes in an english version, maybe! But I have it in the german version, so if you want that one, you can go to your book store with this info:
Lothar-Günther Buchheim
Das Boot
1973 Piper Verlag GmbH, München
ISBN 3-492-22000-2
Personally, I started reading in it last summer, I takes it down to read further now and then, I'm at page 120 now. It's 597 pages, so it takes some time to read. But as always: the book contains much more than a movie (or a tv-serie)!
Thanks matey I'll look into that.
Sulikate
02-23-07, 04:23 PM
I have learned more about life on a U-boat from Das Boot then any other book.
The same here.
Jimbuna
02-23-07, 04:25 PM
RIP Herr Buchheim.
Dietrich
02-23-07, 05:02 PM
Article (in German) here: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt1m4/kultur/artikel/261/103158/
Kpt. Kozloff
02-23-07, 05:13 PM
R I P
High Voltage
02-23-07, 05:26 PM
The Great Depth Charge from the sky finally took him...
R.I.P.
USS Sea Tiger
02-23-07, 05:55 PM
While my interests in U-boats was within me prior to his book being made into a movie,, Thanks to him,, many more joined in serious stuty of this aspect of that terrible time we call war, and he let those who never experienced it, understand the true nature and wear it has on the individual person.
Fair winds, following seas
Sailor Steve
02-23-07, 05:58 PM
It's a real shame- finally got around to buying the full length version of "Das Boot" a week ago, Is there a book? I think I want to read that now.
R.I.P
Of course there's a book! And a great one! And just for you here is your very own Amazon UK link to the English version:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Das-Boot-Cassell-Military-Paperbacks/dp/0304352314/sr=1-1/qid=1172271392/ref=sr_1_1/202-4828607-2950221?ie=UTF8&s=books
Wulfmann
02-23-07, 09:14 PM
Is there a book????
No; no one said that, did they???
Is there a book???
Well if he wasn't dead that would have killed him!~!!
And yes it is translated into English.
Is there a book?
I was trying to come up with something to top that.
Here goes!
Nooby says.
I have been really enjoying SH3 and from some of your post I must ask;
Is this game based on real events????
Wulfmann
azn_132
02-23-07, 09:24 PM
R.I.P but I read another book by him its called The UBoat War.
Einbaum
02-23-07, 09:34 PM
A great pity he died. I hope he got to appreciate how games like this keep his memories alive through interest in his book and the film based on it.
RIP
mookiemookie
02-23-07, 09:39 PM
Old age has taken what Allied depth charges could not, and I can't think of a more desirable end for a U-boat sailor than that.
He did a great thing for us history buffs, and thus he leaves us an indelible legacy. Rest in peace, Herr Buchheim!
CptGrayWolf
02-23-07, 09:44 PM
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i262/Kaleun/L-GBuchheim.jpg
Great pic Donner!
Dante80
02-23-07, 11:47 PM
OT: Is this the original version of the series?...I dont want to buy the uncut Movie version...
http://stores.channeladvisor.com/Movie-Mars/Items/043396096783?sck=1509241
Venatore
02-24-07, 04:32 AM
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condem.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. :cry:
Lest We Forget. :cry:
Mooncatt
02-24-07, 04:39 AM
R.I.P:cry:
Especially where subs are concerned, Das Boot is the best book/depiction ever.
Not only a crazy story, but true and perfect for youngsters..
So they may realize that what was not so long ago.
May his seas be calm.
Sailor Steve
02-24-07, 11:51 AM
OT: Is this the original version of the series?...I dont want to buy the uncut Movie version...
http://stores.channeladvisor.com/Movie-Mars/Items/043396096783?sck=1509241
What does it say on the box in their picture?
The British release says "The Miniseries", but I think it's the same. I don't think you can buy the series with all the opening and closing credits, but the uncut movie version is just that: the series but as one whole instead of six episodes.
Slick Rick
02-24-07, 06:10 PM
He didnt leave without some controversy concerning his exploits on a U boat however....it seems some in the U boat community think he has embellished a bit on his personal experiences....whatever the case....I for one have enjoyed his books and the subsequent movie many times over ........RIP......
Sad to hear. We have lost so much of that time the people and thier history. We cannot forget them, we cannot afford too!
This man authored a great book and an interesting book. He took from his own experiences and that of others and came up with the book "Das Boot".
Those that say he embellished the U-Boot experiences especially his own, I say so what. I read to learn and be entertained and his book did that.
If we all could write and allow others to visulize the written contents it would be great. But alas, only some are so gifted. The author of Das Boot was one of those.
Thank you.
rest in peace, brother in arms...:cry:
Aside from being an author of various books about the U-boat war („Das Boot“, „Die Festung“ etc.), Mr. Buchheim was a highly respected collector of modern art. Having been a painter by himself, he started to collect art close after the war and by the time managed to get a collection of very famous modern artists. His collection was taxed at around $ 300 mn and he finally established his own “Museum of Fantasy” to show his collection along with his own paintings he made during WW II as a u-boat reporter. You can visit his museum in Bernried (southern Bavaria): http://www.buchheimmuseum.de/
In fact Mr. Buchheim’s death found much echo in German papers, mainly due to his excellent work as a collectior of modern art.
RIP Mr. Buchheim.
robbo180265
02-27-07, 04:28 PM
It's a real shame- finally got around to buying the full length version of "Das Boot" a week ago, Is there a book? I think I want to read that now.
R.I.P
Of course there's a book! And a great one! And just for you here is your very own Amazon UK link to the English version:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Das-Boot-Cassell-Military-Paperbacks/dp/0304352314/sr=1-1/qid=1172271392/ref=sr_1_1/202-4828607-2950221?ie=UTF8&s=books
Steve - you beauty! Bought it and Iron coffins together. Thanks mate much appreciated:up:
@Wulfman - I get it , that's like a joke but without the funny bit.
It's a real shame- finally got around to buying the full length version of "Das Boot" a week ago, Is there a book? I think I want to read that now.
R.I.P
Yes, there's a book! Don't know, if it comes in an english version, maybe! But I have it in the german version, so if you want that one, you can go to your book store with this info:
Lothar-Günther Buchheim
Das Boot
1973 Piper Verlag GmbH, München
ISBN 3-492-22000-2
Personally, I started reading in it last summer, I takes it down to read further now and then, I'm at page 120 now. It's 597 pages, so it takes some time to read. But as always: the book contains much more than a movie (or a tv-serie)!
My father has the book in spanish too. He bough it a long time ago.
He didnt leave without some controversy concerning his exploits on a U boat however....it seems some in the U boat community think he has embellished a bit on his personal experiences....whatever the case....I for one have enjoyed his books and the subsequent movie many times over ........RIP......
Yes there was a book by u-boat sailors that was written against him becose someone felt that he presented a wrong picture of the u-boat service.
But hell, i loved the very ditailed describtions of all the ditails of u-boat operations and life on board. No other book is so exhoustive in the explanations.
Platapus
03-26-07, 03:40 PM
May he find peace in a friendly port
/salute
bert8for3
04-01-07, 06:12 PM
Just picking up this thread, since I picked up Buchheim's book "U-Boat War" today at the library. I highly recommend it.
It's basically a photo diary, plus text, of a patrol on a VII-C boat. I've only scanned thrugh it so far. The photos are incredible. And if anyone was doubting the accuracy of the Das Boot movie meeting in heavy weather of the two U-boats (Thomsen's), there's an amazing series of photos of Buchheim's boat meeting another U-boat ... looks identical.
Details are: Lothar-Gunther Buchheim, "U-Boat War", Trans. Gudie Lawaetz, Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1978. ISBN 0-394-41437-3.
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