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Heinz Piontek

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Heinz Piontek

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1925-11-15 (Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia)
Died
2003-10-26 (Lauingen (Danube)) age 77
Nationality
German
Languages
German

Career

Occupations
writer, poet, novelist, essayist
Active Years
1951-2003

Awards

Georg Büchner Prize
1976
Work: literary oeuvre
Organization: Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Lyric poetry combining colour, melody and contourEssays devoted to dense yet swinging sentencesNarrative drawing in time, life, environment and fate in personally coloured language and form

Legacy

Renowned German poet, essayist, and novelist who received the Georg Büchner Prize in 1976 for his literary oeuvre.

Archives

  • Heinz Piontek-Archiv Lauingen

Quotes

  • To a lyricist who knows how to join colour, melody and contour; an essayist who is devoted to dense and likewise swinging sentences; a narrator who draws in time, my life, environment and fate, without submitting to them other than in personally coloured language and form.
    Source: Georg Büchner Prize citation (1976)