Jurek Becker

Jurek Becker was born probably in 1937 in Łódź, into a Jewish family; his father, to protect him, declared him older. As a child he went through the city's ghetto, then through the camps of Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen. His father, a survivor of Auschwitz, found him and settled with him in East Berlin. Dropped from his philosophy studies, he wrote for state cinema. A signatory in 1976 of the letter against the expulsion of Wolf Biermann, he left for the West in 1977 with a permanent visa, without losing his nationality. He died in 1997.

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• NovelJacob the LiarJakob der LügnerJurek Becker · 1969Literature