Musician Dictionary

Reiner Kunze

German poet, writer, translator, and GDR dissident (born 1933) · German writer

DescriptionGerman poet, writer, translator, and GDR dissident (born 1933)
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Born1933-08-16
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BirthplaceOelsnitz/Erzgeb. Oelsnitz, Erzgebirge
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AreaGermany
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CountryDE
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CitizenshipEast Germany Germany
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Occupationfilm director screenwriter Czech–German translator translator linguist poet Slovak–German translator writer director
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Genresprose
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Member ofGerman Academy for Language and Literature Sächsische Akademie der Künste Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
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AwardsBavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art Memminger Freedom Prize 1525 Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis Nikolaus Lenau Award Bavarian Order of Merit Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts Andreas Gryphius Prize America Award in Literature Franz Josef Strauss Award Bavarian Film Awards Robert Schuman Medal Ján Smrek Prize Weilheim Literature Prize Order of Merit of the Free State of Thuringia Kulturpreis der deutschen Freimaurer South Moravian Region Award Geschwister-Scholl-Preis Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony Thüringer Literaturpreis Georg Büchner Prize Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize Lessing Ring Eichendorff-Literaturpreis
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