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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1934
- Died
- 1984
- Works
- 80
Top works
- Jahrestage
- Jahrestage: Aus dem Leben von Gesine Cresspahl.
- Aus aufgegebenen Werken
- Me-ti
- Drei Prosastücke
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1934
- Active to
- 1984
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 17
- Total plays
- 417
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
· 2016 · cited 32,876x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,967x
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,286x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,616x
- Optical Constants of the Noble Metals
· 1972 · cited 18,245x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1934-07-20 ) 20 July 1934, Cammin , Province of Pomerania , Free State of Prussia , German Reich
- Died
- 22 February 1984 (1984-02-22) (aged 49), Sheerness , Kent, England, United Kingdom
- Occupation
- Novelist, short story writer, translator
- Language
- German
- Period
- 1953–1984
- Literary movement
- Group 47
- Notable works
- Speculations About Jakob (1959), Anniversaries (1970–1983)
- Notable awards
- Georg Büchner Prize , 1971 , Wilhelm Raabe Prize , 1975
- Spouse
- Elisabeth Schmidt
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Uwe Johnson ( German pronunciation: [ˈuːvə ˈjoːnzɔn] ; 20 July 1934 – 22 February 1984) was a German writer, editor, and scholar. Such prominent writers and scholars as Günter Grass and Hans Mayer declared Johnson to be the most significant writer to emerge from East Germany. He was also called as "Dichter der deutschen Teilung" (lit. 'poet of the German Division').
During the 1950s, he had troubles with the East German authorities, being treated as a "dissident" both for political reasons and for Modernist experiments in his works which made him opposed to the dominant doctrine of Socialist realism; after moving to West Berlin in 1959, he gained the label of "the author of the two Germanies", as, while criticizing East Germany as the state which betrayed the Socialist ideals, he did not regard West Germany as a viable alternative and opposed the division of Germany in general.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Uwe Johnson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.