Reiner Kunze
Reiner Kunze (born 16 August 1933 in Oelsnitz, Erzgebirge, Saxony) is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact countries invasion of Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring. He had to publish his work under various pseudonyms. In 1976, his most famous book The Lovely Years, which contained critical insights into the life, and the policies behind the Iron Curtain, was published in West Germany to great acclaim. In 1977, the GDR regime expatriated him, and he moved to West Germany (FRG). He now lives near Passau in Bavaria.
His writings consists mostly of poetry, though he wrote prose as well, including essays. He is also a translator of Czech poetry and prose.
Kunze was a victim of the Stasi's Zersetzung psychological warfare program.
In 2009, he was awarded the Thüringer Literaturpreis.[1]
Writings[]
- . 1955 (with Egon Günther)
- . Liebesgedichte und Lieder. 1959
- . 1960 (, Issue 18)
- . 1963
- . 1964 (with Heinz Knobloch)
- . 1969
- . 1970
- . 1972
- . 1973
- . 1976
- . 1976
- . 1979 [movie script]
- . 1981
- . 1984
- . 1986
- . Interviews (1984–1988), 1989
- . 1989
- . 1990
- . 1991
- . 1993
- . 1996
- . 1998
- . 2001 (with )
- . 2002
- . 2002
- . 2003
- . 2005
- . 2007
- die stunde mit dir selbst. Gedichte. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-397376-1.
Awards[]
- 1968
- 1971 Deutscher Jugendbuchpreis
- 1973 Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste and , Sweden
- 1977 , Austria, and Georg Büchner Prize
- 1979 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Screenplay [1]
- 1981 Geschwister Scholl-Preis
- 1984 Eichendorff-Literaturpreis and Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse
- 1988 Bayerischer Verdienstorden
- 1989
- 1990 and
- 1993 Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz, Kulturpreis deutscher Freimaurer and Ehrendoktor der Technischen Universität Dresden
- 1995 Ehrenbürgerschaft der Stadt Greiz and Kulturpreis des Landkreises Passau]]
- 1997
- 1998
- 1999 Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis
- 2000
- 2001 and Bayerischer Maximiliansorden für Wissenschaft und Kunst
- 2002
- 2003 and Ehrenbürgerschaft der Stadt Oelsnitz/Erzgeb
- 2004 STAB-Preis der Stiftung für Abendländische Besinnung and Übersetzerpreis "Premia Bohemica" d. Gemeinschaft d. Schriftsteller Tschechiens
- 2006 Ehrengast des Heinrich-Heine-Hauses Luneburg
- 2008 Verdienstorden des Freistaats Thüringen
- 2009
- 2013
- 2013 America Award for a lifetime contribution to international writing
British/American editions[]
- (with )
- (Swamp Press, 1981)
References[]
- ^ Hart, H.; De Gruyter Incorporated, W.; Hart, J.; Kürschner, J.; Hillger, H.; Klenz, H.; Lüdtke, G.; Neuner, E.; Strodel, H. (2010). Kürschners deutscher Literatur-Kalender (in German). De Gruyter. p. 1459. ISBN 978-3-11-023278-3. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
External links[]
- 1933 births
- Living people
- People from Oelsnitz, Erzgebirge
- Socialist Unity Party of Germany members
- Dissidents
- East German writers
- Writers from Saxony
- Translators from Czech
- Translators to German
- German poets
- 20th-century German translators
- German male poets
- German-language poets
- Leipzig University alumni
- Georg Büchner Prize winners
- Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony