Biography
Lothar-Günther Buchheim was a German author and painter. He wrote the 1973 novel Das Boot, drawn from his wartime service as a naval war correspondent aboard U-boats.
The novel was adapted as the 1981 film Das Boot, on which he was credited for the novel, and the 1985 television series Das Boot, for which he received a screenplay credit. He was born in Weimar in 1918 and died in 2007.
