Angel Wagenstein, born in 1922 as the son of a Jewish craftsman family in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, spent his childhood in France. During World War II, he barely escaped death as…
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Jan Wagner Jan Wagner, born in Hamburg in 1971, is a German poet, essayist and translator, and the recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize (2017) and Leipzig Book Fair Prize (2015). He…
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Robert Walser Robert Walser was born on 15 April 1878 in Biel. He died on 25 December 1956 during a walk in the snow. After his schooldays, he completed a bank apprenticeship…
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Martin Walser Martin Walser, born in 1927 in Wasserburg on Lake Constance, studied literature, history and philosophy at the Universities of Regensburg and Tübingen. He received his doctorate in literature for a…
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Otto F. Walter Otto Friedrich Walter (1928-1994) was a Swiss writer and publisher. Born in Aarau in 1928, he managed his father’s Walter Verlag in Olten, then Luchterhand Verlag in Neuwied, before returning…
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Anne Weber Anne Weber, born in Offenbach in 1964, has been living in Paris as a freelance author and translator since 1983. She translates from German into French (Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Wilhelm Genazino,…
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Andreas Weber Andreas Weber was born in 1967. He studied biology and philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg, Hamburg and Paris. As a freelance writer, journalist and editor, he has been since 1994 contributing…
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Frank Wedekind Frank Wedekind was born in 1864 in Hanover. He moved to Munich and established the magazine Simplicissimus. Wedekind who fought relentlessly against the bourgeois pseudo-morality wrote in 1891 the socially…
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Volker Weidermann Volker Weidermann, born in Darmstadt in 1969, studied political science and German literature in Heidelberg and Berlin. He works in the cultural department of Der Spiegel as a literary editor.
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Benedict Wells Benedict Wells was born in 1984 in Munich. His school years were spent at three Bavarian boarding schools. After graduating in 2003 he moved to Berlin, where he decided against…
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Renate Welsh Renate Welsh was born in 1937 in Vienna. She studied English, Spanish and Public Governance and has been writing books for children, youths and adults since 1970. She received many…
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Harald Welzer Harald Welzer was born in 1958 in Bissendorf near Hannover. Holding a PhD in sociology and social psychology, he is a professor for transformational design at the University of Flensburg…