Animal Farm - German

George Orwell, real name Eric Arthur Blair, was born on June 25, 1903 in Bengal, Northeast India. In England he attended an elite school as a poor scholarship student. He served for five years in Burma with the Indian Imperial Police, then quit because he "could no longer serve imperialism" which he had "seen through as a pretty big fraud". He joined the proletariat as a dishwasher, assistant teacher, hop picker and book and general store dealer, whose lives he described in reports and books. The decisive experience that went into his negative utopias Animal Farm and 1984 and in his masterful essays was his involvement in the communist militia in the Spanish Civil War, in which he was seriously wounded. Orwell then worked for the BBC in London, and experienced the end of the Second World War as a correspondent for the Observer in Germany and France. Orwell died on January 21, 1950 in London.