biography
pronunciation:
[klooguh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1932– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Halberstadt, C Germany. He became an attorney and novelist, and gained fame for his work as a director and scriptwriter with Abschied von Gestern (1966), Zirkuskuppel - ratlos (1968), the award-winning Deutschland im Herbst (1978), and Der Kandidat (1980). He tackles contemporary problems and those of recent German history, as in Schlachtbeschreibung (1964) about Stalingrad. He was awarded the Lessing-Preis in 1989 and the Heinrich-Böll-Preis in 1993. |
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