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born 18 March 1929 in Landsberg/Warthe (today Gorzow Wielskopolski) |
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| 1945 | moves to Mecklenburg |
| 1949 | studies German literature in Jena and Leipzig |
| 1953 – 1959 | research assistant at the German Writers’ Association; editor for the magazine “Neue Deutsche Literatur” and the publisher “Neues Leben” in Berlin |
| 1959 – 1962 | employment at the Halle publishing house “Mitteldeutscher Verlag” |
| 1962 | free lance writer |
| 1963 | Heinrich-Mann-Award |
| 1972 | Theodor-Fontane Award for Art and Literature |
| 1980 | Georg-Büchner Prize |
| 1983 | Schiller Memorial Prize, Baden-Wurttemberg |
| 1985 | Austrian State Award for European Literature |
| 2002 | German Book Prize |
| 2005 | Hermann-Sinsheimer Prize |
| 2010 |
Thomas-Mann-Prize and Uwe-Johnson-Prize |
| lives in Berlin |
Last update June 2011
