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Place of Birth: Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany
About Max von der Grün
- Max von der Grün (25 May 1926 – 7 April 2005) was a German novelist. Max von der Grün was born in Bayreuth and grew up in Mitterteich.
- After a clerical apprenticeship, he became a paratrooper during World War II in 1944.
- He was captured by U.S.
- forces near Quimper (France) and became a prisoner of war, spending three years in prison camps in Scotland, Louisiana, Texas, and New Mexico. After his release, he worked as a bricklayer, and from 1951 to 1963 in the Zeche Königsborn mine near Unna.
- He started writing in 1955, initially poetry, later focusing on worker-class themes. He was a founding member of the Dortmunder Gruppe 61, and a member of the International PEN. von der Grün died in Dortmund.
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