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Date of Birth
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17-March-1926
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Place of Birth
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EÅ‚k
(Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, EÅ‚k County, Poland)
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Nationality
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Germany
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Profession
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Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist, Actor, Television Producer, Teacher
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Siegfried Lenz is a German writer, who has written novels and produced several collections of short stories, essays, and plays for radio and the theatre. He was awarded the Goethe Prize in Frankfurt-am-Main on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. Lenz and his wife, Liselotte, also exchanged over 100 letters with Paul Celan and his wife, Gisèle Lestrange between 1952 and 1961.
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