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Active 1979–present · Awards: Bavarian Order of Merit, Georg Büchner Prize, Geschwister-Scholl-Preis, Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Order of Merit of the Free State of Thuringia, Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize, America Award in Literature, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
Reiner Kunze is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact countries invasion of Czechoslovakia in response…