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Having returned to Germany, he worked from 1945 as an editing assistant for Erich Kästner's Neue Zeitung in Munich.

From 1946 to 1947, he worked alongside Hans Werner Richter to publish the monthly literary journal Der Ruf, which was sold in the American occupation zone of Germany.

The publication was discontinued following the non-renewal of its license by the U. S military government.

Presumably, the discontinuation of " Der Ruf " followed " promptings by the Soviet authorities, provoked by Hans Werner Richter's open letter to the French Stalinist, Marcel Cachin.

" In the following years, Andersch worked with the literary circle Group 47, members of which included the authors Ingeborg Bachmann, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Arno Schmidt, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Helmut Heissenbüttel, among others.

1948 saw the publication of Andersch's essay " Deutsche Literatur in der Entscheidung " ( German Literature at the Turning Point ), in which he concluded, in the spirit of the American post-war " re-education " programme, that literature would play a decisive role in the moral and intellectual changes in Germany.