Author
Hermann Lenz
German writer
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1913
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1998
genre: novel
country of citizenship: Germany
language of expression: German
educated at: Heidelberg University
occupation: writer, poet, novelist
award received: Bavarian Order of Merit, Georg Büchner Prize, Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Officier des Arts et des Lettres, Jean-Paul-Preis, Literaturpreis der Stadt München, Franz-Nabl prize, Gottfried-Keller-Preis
Hermann Karl Lenz (26 February 1913 in Stuttgart – 12 May 1998 in Munich) was a German writer of poetry, fiction stories, and novels. A major part of his work includes 10 volumes in a semi-autobiographical novel cycle about the alter-ego figure "Eugen Rapp". In the 1970s he published the 7-volume Schwäbische Chronik ("Swabian Chronicle").
Lenz had been a German POW in U.S. custody during World War II. He received over 15 literary awards. Archives of his writings include some letters exchanged with his fellow writers Paul Celan and Peter Handke and others (see below: "Correspondence").
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2Frankfurter Erklärung zur Rechtschreibreform
ganzseitige Anzeige in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung vom 19.Oktober 1996 gegen die Rechtschreibreform
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author: Ilse Aichinger, Friedrich Denk, Wolfgang Balk, Reinhard Baumgart, Hans Bender, Dieter Borchmeyer, Karl Corino, Werner Dausien, Eberhard Dünninger, Ota Filip, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Walter Flemmer, Herbert Franke, Heinrich Fries, Wolfgang Frühwald, Horst Fuhrmann, Gertrud Fussenegger, Bernhard Gajek, Alexander Giese, Günter Grass, Ulla Hahn, Ludwig Harig, Peter Härtling, Herbert Heckmann, Eckhard Henscheid, Kurt Hübner, Thomas Hürlimann, Jochen Jung, Joachim Kaiser, Friedhelm Kemp, Walter Kempowski, Herbert Kessler, Wulf Kirsten, Barbara König, Günter Kunert, Root Leeb, Hermann Lenz, Siegfried Lenz, Ernst Dieter Lueg, Wolfgang Martens, Stefan Moses, Walter Müller-Seidel, Anton Neuhäusler, Hans F. Nöhbauer, Hans Pörnbacher, Karl Pörnbacher, Kurt Reumann, Heinz Piontek, Richard Reichensperger, Werner Ross, Gerhard Ruiss, Ulrich Schacht, Rafik Schami, Frank Scheffter, Albert Schirnding, Klaus Schöffling, Albrecht Schöne, Renate Schostack, Thomas Schröer, Heimo Schwilk, Edgar Selge, Jürgen Serke, Kurt Sontheimer, Franziska Sperr, Johano Strasser, Ingrid Strohschneider-Kohrs, Benedikt Taschen, Joachim Unseld, Guntram Vesper, Volker Wahl, Franziska Walser, Martin Walser, Ingo F. Walther, Roger Willemsen, Reinhard Wittmann, Bernhard Zeller
1996