Born on 26th February 1913 in Stuttgart
Died on 12th May 1998 in Munich
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| 1931 - 1940 |
Studies the History of Art, Archaeology and German in Heidelberg and Munich | |
| Up to 1945 |
Serves in the war and is taken as an American prisoner-of-war
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| 1951 |
Lecture for the "Gruppe 47" (Group 47) | |
| 1951 - 1971 |
Secretary of the Baden-Württemberg Writers’ Association in Stuttgart | |
| 1978 | Georg Büchner Prize of the town of Darmstadt | |
| 1999 |
The Petrarca Prize is renamed as the Hermann Lenz Prize, donated by Hubert Burda | |
