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6 unusual facts about Siegfried Lenz


Oleksiy Logvynenko

Siegfried Lenz "Deutschstunde" ("The German lesson") (Kyiv: Soviet writer, 1976)

Siegfried Lenz

Lenz and his wife, Liselotte, also exchanged over 100 letters with Paul Celan and his wife, Gisèle Lestrange between 1952 and 1961.

Together with Günter Grass, he became engaged with the Social Democratic Party and aided the Ostpolitik of Willy Brandt.

Sulejki

Siegfried Lenz named his novel "So zärtlich war Suleyken" after the village.

The Lightship

The film is based on the novella "Das Feuerschiff" ("The Lightship" in German) by German Author Siegfried Lenz.

Vergangenheitsbewältigung

In the cultural sphere, the term Vergangenheitsbewältigung most frequently arises as the name of a movement in German literature, characterised by such authors as Günter Grass and Siegfried Lenz.



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