Editing Hans Fallada (section)

==Death and legacy==
At the time of Fallada's death in February 1947, aged 53, from a weakened heart from years of addiction to morphine, alcohol and other drugs, he had recently completed ''Every Man Dies Alone'', an anti-fascist novel based on the true story of a German couple, [[Otto and Elise Hampel]], who were executed for producing and distributing anti-Nazi material in Berlin during the war.<ref>Williams, 254.</ref> According to Jenny Williams, he wrote the book in a "white heat"—a mere 24 days. Fallada died just weeks before the publication of this final novel. He was buried in [[Pankow]], a borough of Berlin, but was later moved to [[Carwitz]] where he had lived from 1933 till 1944. After Fallada's death, because of possible neglect and continuing addiction on the part of his second wife and sole heir, many of his unpublished works were lost or sold.

Fallada remained a popular writer in Germany after his death. But, although ''Little Man, What Now?'' had been a great success in the United States and the UK, outside of Germany Fallada faded into obscurity for decades. In Germany, ''Every Man Dies Alone'' made a great impact. It was filmed for television in both [[German Democratic Republic|East]] and [[West Germany]].<ref name = "Buchan">{{cite web| url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/mar/07/alone-in-berlin-hans-fallada| title = The path of least resistance| author = Buchan, James| date = March 7, 2009| access-date = October 16, 2013| publisher = theguardian.com}}</ref> The novel was brought to the cinema screen in 1976, starring [[Hildegard Knef]] and [[Carl Raddatz]].<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073200/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt| title = Everyone Dies Alone| date = 21 January 1976| access-date = October 16, 2013| publisher = IMDb.com}}</ref> ''Every Man Dies Alone'' remained untranslated in English until 2009, when it was rediscovered by American publishing house [[Melville House Publishing]] and released in the US under the title ''Every Man Dies Alone'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.observer.com/2009/books/resisting-hitler-first-english-translation-important-anti-fascist-german-novel |title=Resisting Hitler: This is the First English Translation of an Important Anti-Fascist German Novel |work=[[The New York Observer]] |author=James Martin |date=2009-03-03 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090506011220/http://www.observer.com/2009/books/resisting-hitler-first-english-translation-important-anti-fascist-german-novel |archivedate=2009-05-06 |url-status=dead |access-date=2009-03-13 }}</ref> in a translation by [[Michael Hofmann]]. Melville House licensed it to [[Penguin Books]] in the UK, who used the title ''Alone in Berlin''. It became a "surprise bestseller" in both the US and UK.<ref name=obs>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/may/23/hans-fallada-thriller-surprise-hit |title=Hans Fallada's anti-Nazi classic becomes surprise UK bestseller |work=[[The Observer]] |author=Dalya Alberge |date=May 23, 2010 |accessdate=November 8, 2018}}</ref> It was listed on the official UK Top 50 for all UK publishers, a rare occurrence for such an old book.<ref name=obs/> 

Other German writers who had quit the country when [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] rose to power felt disgust for those such as Fallada who had remained, compromising their work under the Nazi regime. Most notable of these critics was Fallada's contemporary [[Thomas Mann]], who had fled Nazi repression early on and lived abroad. He expressed harsh condemnation for writers like Fallada who, though opponents of Nazism, made concessions which compromised their work. “It may be superstitious belief, but in my eyes, any books which could be printed at all in Germany between 1933 and 1945 are worse than worthless and not objects one wishes to touch. A stench of blood and shame attaches to them. They should all be pulped.”<ref>Larson, Erik, “In The Garden of Beasts," Crown Publishers, 2011, p. 273</ref>

The [[Hans Fallada Prize]], a literary prize awarded by the city of [[Neumünster]], was named after the author.

In popular culture "Hans Fallada" was one of the protagonists of Colin Wilson's 1976 novel, "The Space Vampires," turned into a major fim, "Lifeforce" in 1985.