Peter Härtling

Peter Härtling was born in 1933 in Chemnitz and spent his childhood in Hartmannsdorf, then in Olmütz, in Moravia. Fleeing the Red Army, his family reached Zwettl, in Austria, and he lost both his parents in the year after the war. Settled in Nürtingen, he became a journalist, co-edited the magazine Der Monat, then in 1967 joined the management of the publishing house S. Fischer, which he left at the end of 1973 to live by his pen. From 1970 he also wrote books for young people. President of the Hölderlin Society from 1998 to 2006, he died in 2017.

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• NovelNiembsch oder Der StillstandPeter Härtling · 1964not translated into EnglishLiterature