Siegfried Lenz

Novelist, Author

1926 –

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Who is Siegfried Lenz?

Siegfried Lenz is a German writer, who has written novels and produced several collections of short stories, essays, and plays for radio and the theatre. He was awarded the Goethe Prize in Frankfurt-am-Main on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. Lenz and his wife, Liselotte, also exchanged over 100 letters with Paul Celan and his wife, Gisèle Lestrange between 1952 and 1961.

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Born
Mar 17, 1926
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Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Education
  • University of Hamburg
Lived in
  • East Prussia

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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