Reiner Kunze

In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact countries invasion of Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring. He had to publish his work under various pseudonyms. In 1976, his most famous book The Lovely Years, which contained critical insights into the life, and the policies behind the Iron Curtain, was published in West Germany to great acclaim. In 1977, the GDR regime expatriated him, and he moved to West Germany (FRG). He now lives near Passau in Bavaria. His writings consists mostly of poetry, though he wrote prose as well, including essays. He is also a translator of Czech poetry and prose. Kunze was a victim of the Stasi's Zersetzung psychological warfare program. In 2009, he was awarded the Thüringer Literaturpreis.

Reiner Kunze studied at Leipzig University. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are prose. Places of work recorded in the authority are Leipzig. Distinctions recorded are Bavarian Order of Merit, Georg Büchner Prize, Geschwister-Scholl-Preis and Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

• Die Zukunft sitzt am Tische. 1955 (with Egon Günther) • Vögel über dem Tau. Liebesgedichte und Lieder. 1959 • Fragen des lyrischen Schaffens. 1960 (Beiträge zur Gegenwartsliteratur, Issue 18) • Widmungen. 1963 • Die guten Sitten. 1964 (with Heinz Knobloch) • Sensible Wege. 1969 • Der Löwe Leopold, fast Märchen, fast Geschichten. 1970 • Zimmerlautstärke. 1972 • Briefe mit blauem Siegel. 1973 • Die wunderbaren Jahre. 1976 • Das Märchen vom Dis (The Tale of Dis). 1976 • Die Wunderbaren Jahre. 1979 [movie script] • Auf eigene Hoffnung. 1981 • Gespräch mit der Amsel. 1984 • Eines Jeden Einziges Leben. 1986 • Zurückgeworfen auf sich Selbst. Interviews (1984–1988), 1989 • Das weiße Gedicht. 1989 • Deckname Lyrik. 1990 • Wohin der Schlaf sich Schlafen Legt. 1991 • Am Sonnenhang, Tagebuch eines Jahres. 1993 • Steine und Lieder: Namibische Notizen und Fotos. 1996 • Ein Tag auf Dieser Erde. 1998 • Nocturne in E. 2001 (with Andreas Felger) • Die Aura der Wörter. 2002 • Der Kuß der Koi. 2002 • Wo wir zu Hause das Salz haben. 2003 • Bleibt nur die eigene Stirn. 2005 • Lindennacht. 2007 • Die Stunde mit dir selbst. Gedichte. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2018,.

Reiner Kunze is recorded as having received Bavarian Order of Merit, Georg Büchner Prize and Geschwister-Scholl-Preis. Career and activity. He belonged to Sächsische Akademie der Künste, German Academy for Language and Literature and Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. He worked at Leipzig.