biography
pronunciation:
[kempofskee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1929– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Rostock, N Germany. Convicted of spying by the Russians in 1948, he was imprisoned in Bautzen until 1956, after which he moved to West Germany and became a teacher. His highly successful novels include the partially autobiographical saga about a middle-class family from pre-Weimar Republic to after World War 2. It begins with Tadellöser & Wolff (1971), which was made into a popular television series. In Mark und Bein (1992) he used his keen powers of observation to reproduce the atmosphere in Germany after reunification. |
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