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Siegfried Lenz
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Siegfried Lenz

1926 – 2014 · aged 88

German author (1926-2014)

Born
17 Mar 1926 · Ełk
Died
7 Oct 2014 · Hamburg
Part ofPoland967 CE – todayGerman Reich1815 – 1949

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 101 years
  1. 17 Mar 1926BornBorn in Ełk
  2. 1939 – 1945WarWorld War II
  3. 1962AwardGeorg Mackensen Literary Prize
  4. 1962AwardLiteraturpreis der Stadt Bremen
  5. 1970AwardGerhart Hauptmann Prize
  6. 1970AwardKulturpreis der deutschen Freimaurer
  7. 1970AwardLessing Ring
  8. 1979AwardAndreas Gryphius Prize
  9. 1985AwardManès-Sperber-Preis
  10. 1987AwardWilhelm Raabe Prize
  11. 1988AwardPeace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association
  12. 1995AwardJean-Paul-Preis
  13. 1998AwardSamuel Bogumil Linde Prize
  14. 1999AwardGoethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt
  15. 7 Oct 2014DiedDied in Hamburg

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1926 – 2014).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  9. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  10. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  11. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  12. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  13. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  14. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  15. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  17. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  18. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  20. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  21. 1956Suez Crisis
  22. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  23. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  24. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  26. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  28. 1968Prague Spring
  29. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  30. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  31. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  32. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  34. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  35. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  36. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  37. 1985Schengen Agreement
  38. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  39. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  40. 19901990 FIFA World Cup

Biography

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.

Text from the Wikipedia article Siegfried Lenz, CC BY-SA 4.0

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