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Born on 10th June 1943 in Tachau in Bohemia |
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| 1946 |
Expulsion of the Kurzeck family from Czechoslovakia
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Youth spent in Staufenberg near Giessen
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| Until 1971 |
Recruiter with the US Army
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| 1991 | Alfred Döblin Prize | |
| 1995 |
Honorary gift from the German Schiller Foundation | |
| 1999 |
Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Arts
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| 2000 |
Hans Erich Nossack Prize; Writer in Residence in Bergen-Enkheim
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| 2004 |
Literaturhaüser Prize (prize of the Literature Houses); Kranichstein Literature Prize | |
| 2006 |
Georg Konell Prize of the federal state capital Wiesbaden | |
| 2008 |
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Prize 2007 of Darmstadt-Dieburg
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Lives in Frankfurt am Main and in Uzès in the south of France | ||
