(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)
Website
www.siegfried-lenz.de
Siegfried Lenz (German:[ˈziːkfʁiːtˈlɛnts]ⓘ; 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.
SiegfriedLenz (German: [ˈziːkfʁiːt ˈlɛnts] ; 17 March 1926 – 7 October 2014) was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas...
The SiegfriedLenz Prize is intended to honor international writers who have achieved recognition for their narrative work and whose creative work is close...
Lesson (original title: Deutschstunde) is a novel by the German writer SiegfriedLenz, published in 1968 in Germany. The English translation by Ernst Kaiser...
novella "Das Feuerschiff" ("The Lightship" in German) by German author SiegfriedLenz which had previously been made into a German film of the same title...
third Lucy Barton novel, was published in October of 2021. She won the SiegfriedLenz Prize in 2022. A fourth novel in the series, Lucy by the Sea, was published...
generation of scholars. Kracauer, Siegfried (1928). Ginster. Kracauer, Siegfried (1947). From Caligari to Hitler. Kracauer, Siegfried (1960). Theory of Film: The...
prince Siegfried comes to Worms to acquire the hand of the Burgundian princess Kriemhild from her brother King Gunther. Gunther agrees to let Siegfried marry...
significant figures were Johann Anton Leisewitz, Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, H. L. Wagner, and Friedrich Maximilian Klinger. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
Irmgard Keun Sarah Kirsch Egon Erwin Kisch Siegfried Kracauer Karl Kraus Else Lasker-Schüler Gert Ledig SiegfriedLenz Heinrich Mann Klaus Mann Thomas Mann...
Zinklar Award at the first annual Blixen Ceremony in Copenhagen 2016 SiegfriedLenz Prize 2017 Officier in the Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur 2021...
intellectuals (#72) 2013 – Franz Kafka Prize 2014 – Order of Civil Merit 2014 – SiegfriedLenz Prize, granted by the City of Hamburg 2015 – World premiere of the film...
Thriller: Ingrid Noll Novel: Wilhelm Genazino, Günter Grass, Herta Müller, SiegfriedLenz, Charlotte Link, Rainald Goetz, Anna Kaleri, Norbert Scheuer, Dietmar...
Law (1858–1923), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1922–1923). SiegfriedLenz, German author. C. S. Lewis, British author, theologian, professor....
Irmgard Keun Sarah Kirsch Egon Erwin Kisch Siegfried Kracauer Karl Kraus Else Lasker-Schüler Gert Ledig SiegfriedLenz Heinrich Mann Klaus Mann Thomas Mann...
cultivated scorn and gifted melancholy, to find the people of Hamburg. — SiegfriedLenz, in Leute von Hamburg (People of Hamburg) ISBN 978-3-423-11538-4. Lucas...
Irmgard Keun Sarah Kirsch Egon Erwin Kisch Siegfried Kracauer Karl Kraus Else Lasker-Schüler Gert Ledig SiegfriedLenz Heinrich Mann Klaus Mann Thomas Mann...
William Trevor (Ireland) 2009: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria) 2010: SiegfriedLenz (Germany) 2011: Javier Marías (Spain) 2012: Yang Lian (China) 2013:...
Irmgard Keun Sarah Kirsch Egon Erwin Kisch Siegfried Kracauer Karl Kraus Else Lasker-Schüler Gert Ledig SiegfriedLenz Heinrich Mann Klaus Mann Thomas Mann...
Czech Republic/France Leena Lander Finland John le Carré United Kingdom SiegfriedLenz Germany Doris Lessing United Kingdom Astrid Lindgren Sweden Viivi Luik...
1993 – Friedrich Schorlemmer (Richard von Weizsäcker) 1992 – Amos Oz (SiegfriedLenz) 1991 – György Konrád (Jorge Semprún) 1990 – Karl Dedecius (Heinrich...
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (23 January 1751, or 12 January in the Julian calendar – 4 June 1792, or 24 May in the Julian calendar) was a Baltic German...
Princess of Asturias Award in Literature 2018 Park Kyong-ni Prize 2018 SiegfriedLenz Prize 2019 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction A Piece of...
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