Gerhard Zwerenz Explained

Gerhard Zwerenz
Birth Date:3 June 1925
Birth Place:Gablenz, Saxony, Germany
Death Date:13 July 2015
Death Place:Oberreifenberg, Hesse, Germany
Occupation:Writer and politician
Nationality:German
Spouse:Ingrid Hoffmann
Children:1

Gerhard Zwerenz (3 June 1925 in Gablenz, Saxony – 13 July 2015) was a German writer and politician. From 1994 until 1998 he was a member of the Bundestag for the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS).

Life

Gerhard Zwerenz was born in Gablenz, a district of Crimmitschau. Through his father, he is a great-great-grandnephew to Mizzi Zwerenz.[1] After an apprenticeship to a coppersmith he enlisted in the Wehrmacht in 1942 and participated in World War II. In 1944 he deserted and became a prisoner of war.

In 1948 he came back to Germany, where he worked as a policeman until 1951. From 1949 until 1957 he was member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. After he became ill with tuberculosis he had to stay in a sanatorium. From 1953 until 1956 he studied philosophy under Ernst Bloch at Leipzig University. From 1956 up until his death in 2015 he worked as a writer. In 1957 Zwerenz was expelled from the SED and soon after fled to West-Berlin. Later he and his wife, writer, lived in Munich, Cologne, Offenbach am Main and Oberreifenberg/Schmitten im Taunus.[2]

From 1994 until 1998 Zwerenz was a member of the Bundestag for the PDS.

Zwerenz died on 13 July 2015, aged 90.[3]

Selected works

Awards

Further reading

References

  1. Gerhard Zwerenz: Das Großelternkind, S. 53, Querfurt 1996, ISBN 3-928498-58-4.
  2. Stefan Müller: Gerhard Zwerenz zum 85. Geburtstag am 3. Juni: Ein Gespräch mit Gerhard Zwerenz: „Ich arbeite jeden Vormittag!“ at poetenladen, 3 June 2010.
  3. Autor Gerhard Zwerenz mit 90 Jahren gestorben at sueddeutsche.de, 13 July 2015.

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