Reiner Kunze

Reiner Kunze (born 16 August 1933 in Oelsnitz, Erzgebirge, Saxony) is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact countries invasion of Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring. He had to publish his work under various pseudonyms. In 1976, his most famous book The Lovely Years, which contained critical insights into the life, and the policies behind the Iron Curtain, was published in West Germany to great acclaim. In 1977, the GDR regime expatriated him, and he moved to West Germany (FRG). He now lives near Passau in Bavaria.

Reiner Kunze.
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His writings consists mostly of poetry, though he wrote prose as well, including essays. He is also a translator of Czech poetry and prose.

Kunze was a victim of the Stasi's Zersetzung psychological warfare program.

In 2009, he was awarded the Thüringer Literaturpreis.[1]

Writings

  • Die Zukunft sitzt am Tische. 1955 (with Egon Günther)
  • Vögel über dem Tau. Liebesgedichte und Lieder. 1959
  • Fragen des lyrischen Schaffens. 1960 (Beiträge zur Gegenwartsliteratur, Issue 18)
  • Widmungen. 1963
  • Die guten Sitten. 1964 (with Heinz Knobloch)
  • Sensible Wege. 1969
  • Der Löwe Leopold, fast Märchen, fast Geschichten. 1970
  • Zimmerlautstärke. 1972
  • Briefe mit blauem Siegel. 1973
  • Die Wunderbaren Jahre. 1976
  • The Tale of Dis. 1976
  • Die Wunderbaren Jahre. 1979 [movie script]
  • Auf eigene Hoffnung. 1981
  • Gespräch mit der Amsel. 1984
  • Eines Jeden Einziges Leben. 1986
  • Zurückgeworfen auf sich Selbst. Interviews (1984–1988), 1989
  • Das weiße Gedicht. 1989
  • Deckname Lyrik. 1990
  • Wohin der Schlaf sich Schlafen Legt. 1991
  • Am Sonnenhang, Tagebuch eines Jahres. 1993
  • Steine und Lieder: Namibische Notizen und Fotos. 1996
  • Ein Tag auf Dieser Erde. 1998
  • Nocturne in E. 2001 (with Andreas Felger)
  • Die Aura der Wörter. 2002
  • Der Kuß der Koi. 2002
  • Wo wir zu Hause das Salz haben. 2003
  • Bleibt Nur Die Eigne Stirn. 2005
  • Lindennacht. 2007
  • die stunde mit dir selbst. Gedichte. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-397376-1.

Awards

Reiner Kunze in 2009 in the St. Martins Church at Memmingen

British/American editions

  • The Lovely Years
  • In Time of Need: A Conversation about Poetry, Resistance & Exile (with Mireille Gansel)
  • Zimmerlautstarke With the Volume Down Low (Swamp Press, 1981)

References

  1. Hart, H.; De Gruyter Incorporated, W.; Hart, J.; Kürschner, J.; Hillger, H.; Klenz, H.; Lüdtke, G.; Neuner, E.; Strodel, H. (2010). Kürschners deutscher Literatur-Kalender (in German). De Gruyter. p. 1459. ISBN 9783110232783. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
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