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born 16 October 1927 in Danzig (Gdansk) |
| Wolf Gang, flickr.com (cc)BY-SA |
| 1947 - 1948 | stonemason apprenticeship |
| 1948 - 1952 | studies Graphic Arts and Sculpture at the Dusseldorf Academy |
| 1953 - 1956 | studies with sculptor Karl Hartung at the Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin |
| 1956 - 1957 | first exhibition in Stuttgart and Berlin; makes his debut as poet and playwright |
| 1960 | Literature Award of the German Critics’ Association |
| 1962 | French Literature Award "Le meilleur livre étranger" for "The Tin Drum" |
| 1965 | Georg-Büchner Prize; Honorary Doctorate, Kenyon College, USA |
| 1968 | Fontane Prize; Carl-von-Ossietzky Medal |
| 1976 | Honorary Doctorate, Harvard University |
| 1978 | Premio Letterario Viareggio, Italy |
| 1983 - 1986 | President, Berliner Akademie der Künste (Berlin Academy of Arts) |
| 1985 | gifted the "Alfred-Döblin-Haus" in Wewelsfleth to the city of Berlin. The house is used by young authors. |
| 1990 | Honorary Doctorate , Posznán University |
| 1993 | Honorary resident of Danzig (now Gdansk) |
| 1994 | Literature Prize of Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste |
| 1996 | Sonning-Prize, Denmark |
| 1997 | founded the "Stiftung zugunsten des Roma Volkes" |
| 1999 | Nobel Prize for Literature; Prinz-von-Asturien-Prize |
| 2005 | founded the writers‘circle "Lübeck 05" |
| 2006 | Ernst-Toller-Prize |
| lives near Lübeck |
Last update June 2011
