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Siegfried Lenz
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Siegfried Lenz (1926–2014) was a German writer, journalist, screenwriter, and children’s writer. Born in Ełk, he held citizenship in Germany and the German Reich. Lenz participated in World War II and later studied at the University of Hamburg. He worked in Hamburg and was employed by the University of Düsseldorf. His literary career began in 1956.
Among his notable works is *The German lesson* (*Deutschstunde*). Other titles include *Über den Schmerz*, *Fast ein Triumph*, and *So zärtlich war Suleyken*. Lenz received several awards, including the Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt, the Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association, the Samuel-Bogumil-Linde prize, and the Gerhart Hauptmann prize. He was a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature and the Academy of Arts, Berlin. Lenz died in Hamburg.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1926
- Works
- 256
Top works
- Mivḥan ha-tselil
- Über den Schmerz
- Fast ein Triumph
- Deutschstunde
- So zärtlich war Suleyken
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing
Known for
- NDR Kultur – Das Journal — Self2002
- Beckmann — Self1999
- Ein Kriegsende — Narrator (voice)1984
- TV Intim — Self1969
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1926
- Active to
- 2014
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 241
- Total plays
- 12,085
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Siegfried+Lenz">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Are we ready for autonomous driving? The KITTI vision benchmark suite
· 2012 · cited 11,899x
- Vision meets robotics: The KITTI dataset
· 2013 · cited 8,493x
- The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package<sup>*</sup>
· 2018 · cited 7,195x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,795x
- The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)
· 2017 · cited 6,307x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1926-03-17 ) 17 March 1926, Lyck, Germany (now Ełk , Poland )
- Died
- 7 October 2014 (2014-10-07) (aged 88), Hamburg , Germany
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Nationality
- German
- Alma mater
- University of Hamburg
- Period
- 1956–2014
- Notable works
- The German Lesson
- Notable awards
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (1988) Goethe Prize (2000) Honorary citizen of Schleswig-Holstein (2004)
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
7 objects attributed to Siegfried Lenz, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Siegfried Lenz ( German: [ˈziːkfʁiːt ˈlɛnts] ; 17 March 1926 – 7 October 2014) was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. He won the 2010 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
Life
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