Biografia
Born on 9th April 1929 in Rostock
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| 1944 |
Internment in a Hitler Youth prison unit | |
| 1945 |
Conscription to the Luftwaffe (German air force) | |
| 1948 |
Sentenced by a Soviet military tribunal to 25 years in a labour camp for espionage | |
| 1956 |
Early release from Bautzen prison | |
| 1957 |
School leaving exams in Göttingen and studies at the Göttingen teacher training college | |
| 1960 |
Marries fellow teacher Hildegard Janssen; employed as a teacher at the village school in Breddorf near Zeven | |
| 1977 | Guest lecturer at the University of Essen | |
| 1980 |
Associate lecturer for matters relating to literature production at the University of Oldenburg; founding of the archive for unpublished autobiographies
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| 1983 | Guest lecturer at the University of Hamburg | |
| 1986 |
Publishing role in the archive for unpublished autobiographies | |
| 1994 |
Konrad Adenauer Pize; establishes an archive of his writings in Rostock; awarded honorary citizenship of Rostock
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| 1995 | Uwe Johnson Prize | |
| 1996 |
Recognition with the Federal Cross of Merit | |
| 1997 |
Expands the Rostock archive into a collection of Rostock authors | |
| 2002 |
Dedalus Prize for Contemporary Literature from Südwestrundfunk and the Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst (Ministry for Knowledge, Research and Art) in Baden-Württemberg | |
| 2002 |
Honorary doctorate from the Philosophy department of the University of Rostock; Nicolas Born Prize of the federal state of Lower Saxony | |
| 2003 |
Honorary professor for Contemporary Literature and Cultural History at the University of Rostock | |
| 2004 |
Lifelong honorary membership of the Hamburg Author’s Association; Lower Saxony Federal Cross of Merit | |
| 2005 |
Hans Erich Nossack Prize; Thomas Mann Prize; honorary Prize from the Bavarian Minister as part of the Corine International Book Prize | |
| 2006 |
Hoffmann von Fallersleben Prize for topical contemporary literature; Culture Prize of the federal state of Mecklenburg Vorpommern | |
| 2007 |
Died on 5th October 2007 in Rotenburg, Lower Saxony |
Bibliografia
Letzte Grüße, Roman, 2003
Das Echolot. Barbarossa ´41. Ein kollektives Tagebuch. 21. Juni 1941 bis 30. Juni 1941 und 1. Juli 1941 bis 8. Juli 1941, 2002
Das Echolot. Fuga furiosa. Ein kollektives Tagebuch Winter 1945. 12. Januar bis 14. Februar 1945. 4 Bde., 1999
Das Echolot. Ein kollektives Tagebuch. 1. Januar bis 28. Februar 1943. 4 Bde., 1993
Hundstage, Roman, 1988
Aus großer Zeit, Roman, 1978
Haben Sie Hitler gesehen? Deutsche Antworten, 1973
Uns gehts ja noch gold. Roman einer Familie, 1972
Tadellöser & Wolff. Ein bürgerlicher Roman, 1971
Titoli in traduzione
Tadellöser & Wolff : un romanzo borghese / Walter Kempowski. A cura di Domenico Pinto. Trad, di Diana Politano e Francesco Vitellini. - S. Angelo in Formis : Lavieri, 2007. - 333 p.
(arno ; 4)
Tit. orig.: Taddellöser & Wolff
