Siegfried Lenz

Siegfried Lenz was born in 1926 in Lyck, in Masuria, the son of a customs officer. Called up into the navy after the baccalauréat, he deserted in Denmark in the last days of the war. Documents published in 2007 show his membership of the Nazi party in 1944, of which he said he had known nothing. An editor at the newspaper Die Welt, he lived by his pen in Hamburg from 1951. A member of Group 47, he supported, with Günter Grass, Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik and accompanied him to Warsaw in 1970. He died in Hamburg in 2014.

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