- WELLERSHOFF, Dieter
- Dieter Wellershoff,
born in Neuss (on the Rhine), served in the Second World War and,
after the war, finished high school in 1946. From 1947 to 1952 he
studied German literature psychology, and art history in Bonn, graduating
with a Ph.D. Since 1956 he has been a freeland writer, interrupted
by his work as an editor for the Kiepenheuer & Witsch publishing
house from 1959 to 1981. He lives in Cologne, where he founded the
Cologne School of Realism (Kölner Realismus), one
of several attempts to revive the traditions of realism during the
1960s. He is an influential and prolific writer whose novels, stories,
essays, radio plays and television scripts have earned him many
awards, including the Heinrich Böll Prize in 1988. He has been
visiting professor on several occasions, including at Warwick, England,
in 1973 and at Gainesville, Florida, in 1992.
Bleibe (Stay) from Werke, Band 2 (Cologne: Verlag
Kiepenheuer und Witsch, 1996): Vol. 5, No. 3
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