Siegfried Lenz

Siegfried Lenz , born the Prussia-Eastern March 17th 1926 with Ełk in , is one of the German writers most known of the literature of the post-war period and today. He is the author of twelve novels and many collections of short stories, tests and radiophonic or theatrical parts. He obtained the Prix Goethe with Francfort-sur-le-Main in 1999.

Biography

Lenz is the son of an officer of the customs. He finishes his studies in 1943 and is enlisted in the German navy.

According to documents of the central data base of the Nazi party, it would have adhered to this last on July 12th, 1943.

Little before the end the Second world war, it deserted with the Denmark but is done prisoner of war to the Schleswig-Holstein.

The finished war, it studies philosophy, English and the history of the literature to the Université of Hamburg. It stops its studies quickly but is all the same engaged with the German daily newspaper Die Welt , of which he is editor association of 1950 to 1951. It is there that it meets that which it will marry in 1949, Liselotte (deceased on February 5th, 2006).

Since 1951, Lenz works as independent writer with Hamburg. Since 2003, he is professor emeritus with the Université Heinrich Heine of Düsseldorf.

Works

Siegfried Lenz is a very prolific author. Only the novels and news are indicated here translated into French.

  • the lightship , Paris, P. Belfond, 1986 (Das Feuerschiff, news, appeared in 1960)

  • Field of fire , Paris, De Old Fallois/L' of man, 1989 (Exerzierplatz, 1986)
  • the last boat , Paris, R. Laffont, 2001
  • the German lesson, Paris, R. Laffont, 1996 (Die Deutschstunde, novel, 1968)
  • the night of the hostages , 1965
  • When Einstein crosses Elba close to Hamburg : Lausanne: The Old one of Man, 1994 (Einstein überquert die Elba EIB Hamburg, news, 1975)
  • vaguenesses of Balaton followed by large Wildenberg , Paris: Waste ground, 1991

Others

  • He was member of the Groupe 47 of Hans Werner Richter
  • He supported, just like Günter Grass, the Ostpolitik " policy towards the est" of the Chancellor Willy Brandt. It signed, as an important representative of this movement, the contract germano-Polish in 1970.
Since 1953 it received a great number of prices for its work, for example:
  • 1988 Friedenspreis of Deutschen Buchhandels
  • 1999 Goethe-Preis
  • 2002 citizen of honor of Hamburg

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