Uwe Johnson (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Uwe Johnson has been called “the author of both Germanies,” sitting, as it were, on the border dividing East and West Germany and directing his critically analytical yet passionate glance at both parts simultaneously. Johnson was born in 1934 in Cammin on the Dievenow River in Pomerania, a former northern German province which has been part of Poland since 1945. At age ten, he was sent to an elite school run by the Nazis, where he was reprimanded for his “unhealthy continuous reading.” After flight from his now-Polish homeland, he and his family settled in Güstrow, in the...
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