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Siegfried Lenz
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Siegfried Lenz was a major German novelist and writer who lived from 1926 to 2014 and is known for works that explored themes of morality, conscience, and human dignity, often set against the backdrop of twentieth-century German history. His novels and stories remain significant in German literature for their thoughtful examination of ethical questions and their accessible yet sophisticated storytelling.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1926
- Works
- 256
Top works
- Mivḥan ha-tselil
- Über den Schmerz
- Fast ein Triumph
- Deutschstunde
- So zärtlich war Suleyken
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing
Known for
- NDR Kultur – Das Journal — Self2002
- Beckmann — Self1999
- Ein Kriegsende — Narrator (voice)1984
- TV Intim — Self1969
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1926
- Active to
- 2014
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 241
- Total plays
- 12,085
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Siegfried+Lenz">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Are we ready for autonomous driving? The KITTI vision benchmark suite
· 2012 · cited 11,596x
- Vision meets robotics: The KITTI dataset
· 2013 · cited 8,285x
- The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package<sup>*</sup>
· 2018 · cited 6,864x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,740x
- The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)
· 2017 · cited 6,135x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1926-03-17 ) 17 March 1926, Lyck, Germany (now Ełk , Poland )
- Died
- 7 October 2014 (2014-10-07) (aged 88), Hamburg , Germany
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Nationality
- German
- Alma mater
- University of Hamburg
- Period
- 1956–2014
- Notable works
- The German Lesson
- Notable awards
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (1988) Goethe Prize (2000) Honorary citizen of Schleswig-Holstein (2004)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.siegfried-lenz.de
- Image
- Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F030757-0015, Siegfried Lenz.jpg
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- Commons category
- Siegfried Lenz
- date of birth
- 1926-03-17
- date of death
- 2014-10-07
- name in native language
- Siegfried Lenz
- start of work period
- 1956-00-00
- end of work period
- 2014-00-00
Sources (10)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
7 objects attributed to Siegfried Lenz, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Article
Siegfried Lenz ( German: [ˈziːkfʁiːt ˈlɛnts] ; 17 March 1926 – 7 October 2014) was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. He won the 2010 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
Life