Ulrich Plenzdorf

Ulrich Plenzdorf was born in 1934 in Berlin, the son of a mechanic; his parents, communists, were imprisoned several times under the Nazis. He studied philosophy in Leipzig without taking a degree, worked as a theatre stagehand, served in the East German army, then in 1959 entered the film school at Babelsberg. A screenwriter and dramaturge at the state studio from 1963, he wrote in 1973 the screenplay for a film by Heiner Carow, then wrote for West German television. He received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1978 and died in 2007.

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• NovelThe New Sufferings of Young W.Die neuen Leiden des jungen W.Ulrich Plenzdorf · 1972Literature