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Born on 7th of May 1939 in Dresden |
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| 1957/58 | Employment as print shop worker in Dresden after failing to gain university admission upon completion of his Abitur (the equivalent of high school and two years of college, required in Germany for university admission- translator’s note). | |
| 1958/59 | Mining work in the Schwarze Pumpe state holding company | |
| 1959/60 |
Training programme as a skilled technical worker, machinist for large-scale mining equpiment in the Burghammer coal mine | |
| 1960 - 1964 | University studies in philosophy in Leipzig | |
| 1964 | Erich Weinert Medal of Honour; Art award of the Free German Youth | |
| 1965 | Move to Berlin after completion of his university studies; marriage and birth of a daughter | |
| 1965/66 | Dramatic advisor to the Berlin Ensemble | |
| 1972 - 1977 | Work for the Deutsches Theater in Berlin | |
| 1970 | Member of the GDR PEN Centre | |
| 1971 | Heinrich Heine Award of the GDR Ministry of Culture | |
| 1973 | Board member of the Writers’ Union | |
| 1977 - 1990 | Work for the Berlin Ensemble | |
| 1977 | Corresponding member of the Academy of the Sciences and Literature, Mainz | |
| 1980 | Heinrich Mann Award of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin/GDR | |
| 1981 | Lessing Award of the Minister of Culture of the GDR | |
| 1983 | Member of the Academy of the Arts of the GDR | |
| 1986 | Literature Award of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen | |
| 1987 | Member of the Presidium of the Writers’ Union | |
| 1988 | GDR National Award, First Class | |
| 1989 | Berlin Award for German-language literature | |
| 1990 | Membership in the Academy of the Arts Berlin (West); sojourn in the USA | |
| 1990 | Member of the German Academy of Performing Arts, Frankfurt; member of the PEN Centre of the German Federal Republic (East German PEN) | |
| 1991 | Advisory board member of the magazine Sinn und Form, member of the board of trustees of the Berlin Literary Workshop | |
| 1991 | Schiller Memorial Award of the State of Baden-Württemberg | |
| 1993 | Guest of the Villa Massimo in Rome; member of the (nationwide) Academy of the Arts, Berlin | |
| 1994 | Visiting scholar of the University of Wales | |
| 1996 | Member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts; Dresden Poetry Lecture at the University of Heidelberg; member of the German Academy of Language and Poetry; German Critics’ Award, Darmstadt | |
| 1998 | Hans Erich Nossack Award of the Cultural Circle of German Industry in the BDI (union of German industry); Erwin Strittmatter Award of the State of Brandenburg | |
| 1999 | Brothers Grimm professorship at the University of Kassel, winter semester 1999/2000 | |
| 2000 | Büchner Award | |
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2005
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Golden Key of the City of Smederevo
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| 2006 | Election as Director of the Section for Literature of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin | |
| 2008 | ver.di Award for Literature for his short novel, Das Mittagsmahl (i.e., the midday meal), 2007 | |
| Volker Braun lives in Berlin |
