biography
pronunciation:
[biyairl]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1926– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Rumburk, Czech Republic. After Slavonic studies at university, he attended the literary institute in Leipzig and was engaged until 1967 as literary manager at the Berliner Ensemble in East Berlin. His plays, strongly reminiscent of Brecht's, portray everyday life in the German Democratic Republic, and include Frau Flinz (1961), Johanna von Döbeln (1969), Schlag 13 (1971), Die Lachtaube (1974), and Kirschenpflücken (1974). Among his prose works is Die Köpfe oder Das noch kleinere Organon (1974). |
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