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Place of Birth: Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Hermann Lenz
- Hermann Karl Lenz (26 February 1913 in Stuttgart – 12 May 1998 in Munich) was a German writer of poetry, fiction stories, and novels.
- A major part of his work includes 10 volumes in a semi-autobiographical novel cycle about the alter-ego figure "Eugen Rapp".
- In the 1970s he published the 7-volume Schwäbische Chronik ("Swabian Chronicle"). Lenz had been a German POW in U.S.
- custody during World War II.
- He received over 15 literary awards.
- Archives of his writings include some letters exchanged with his fellow writers Paul Celan and Peter Handke and others (see below: "Correspondence").
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