Siegfried Lenz





Siegfried Lenz

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born
in Lyck
March 17, 1926

gender
male


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Siegfried Lenz (born 17 March 1926 in Lyck (Ełk), East Prussia) is a German writer who has written twelve novels and produced several collections of short stories, essays, and plays for radio and the theatre. He was awarded the Goethe Prize in Frankfurt-am-Main on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. Lenz and his wife, Liselotte, also exchanged over 100 letters with Paul Celan and his wife, Gisèle Lestrange between 1952 and 1961.

Siegfried Lenz, was a son of a customs officer in Lyck (Elk), East Prussia. After his graduation exam in 1943, he was drafted into the navy.

According to documents released in June 2007, he may have joined the Nazi party on the 12th of July 1943.

Shortly before the end of World War II, he defec...more


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