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German writer Günter de Bruyn dies The Berlin author, awarded the German National Prize in 2002, died on 4 October at the age of 93, his family announced.
De Bruyn was born the youngest of four children to a Catholic translator and a Protestant homeworker. In 1943 he was drafted into military service as an aide in the air force. After the war, he worked for the first time as a teacher in a town near Rathenow, from 1953 he worked at the Central Library Institute in Berlin, and in 1961 he established himself as a freelance writer.
Many of his works realistically deal critically with life in the GDR. From 1974 to 1982 de Bruyn was a member of the presidium of the PEN center in the GDR. In October 1989 he refused to accept the GDR national award, not least because of the government’s “inability to dialogue”.
He had great success in the early 1990s with his autobiographical double-volume work “Zwischenbilanz” and “Forty Years: A Life Report.” Angela Merkel paid tribute to the author in a birthday speech in 2006 and said that he had “never given the thinking of those in power control over their own thinking” and that he had “seduced him into dreaming with his imaginative language” .
