biography
pronunciation:
[beenek]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1930–90)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Gleiwitz, Silesia, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland). Detained in Siberia during 1951–5, on his release he worked as a radio editor and writer in the Federal Republic of Germany. Influenced by Pound and Brecht, he discussed in cool, disciplined tones human internal and external attempts at self-assertion in such works as the stories Nachtstücke (1969), the novel Die Zelle (1968), the poems Was war, was ist (1966), Die Kindheit danach (1974), and Gleiwitzer Kindheit (1976), and the essays Solschenizyn und andere (1972). The mental ‘recapturing’ of lost landscapes is the theme of his novels Die erste Polka (1975), Septemberlicht (1977), Zeit ohne Glocken(1979), Erde und Feuer (1982), and Birken und Hochöfen. Eine Kindheit in Oberschlesien (1990). Other works include Werkstattgespräche (1962), literary portraits Der Blinde in der Bibliothek (1986), sketches Beschreibung einer Provinz (1986), and the poems Das allmähliche Ersticken von Schreien (1987). His essay Die langsame Heimkehr des Doktor Schiwago and poems Die Zeit, der Fluß, der Wind and Wer antwortet wem? were published posthumously in 1991. |
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