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Gerolstein (AP) - The writer Theodor Weißenborn is dead. He died on January 9th at the age of 87 of cancer, as his son Gregor Weißenborn announced on Tuesday in Neuss to the German press agency.
The funeral took place on Monday in the closest family circle.
Weißenborn had made a name for himself as an eloquent intellectual.
In the course of his life he has written an abundance of poems, essays, radio plays, satires, short stories and novels - and has always turned to new topics.
Above all, he devoted himself to philosophy, psychology and politics.
Born in Düsseldorf, Weißenborn had lived in the Eifel for many years: he spent the last five years in Gerolstein (Vulkaneifel district).
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Weißenborn first studied art education in Düsseldorf, later various humanities and then psychology and psychiatry in Cologne.
His prose volume “Victims of a Conspiracy”, published in 1988, with a series of texts critical of psychiatry has been translated into 25 languages.
Weissenborn had said on the occasion of his 75th birthday that it was his "most gratifying literary recognition".
He received many literary awards, including the Georg Mackensen Literature Prize in 1971 for the best short story and in 1990 the Prize of the Academy of Arts for "The Sin Dog".
He published his last work in 2019: «Cross shots - thoughts and memoirs of a heretic».
Until the end he wrote on a typewriter: he didn't have a computer in the house, as his son said.
Theodor Weissenborn