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Marbach (dpa) - The German Literature Archive Marbach (DLA) receives the so-called Vorlass of the writer Christoph Hein.
The 76-year-old will hand over his manuscripts, working materials and letters, pieces and narrative prose initially as a deposit, announced DLA director Sandra Richter on Wednesday in Marbach.
For more than four decades, Hein has been recording the history of Germany, which was initially divided and later struggled for internal unity, humorously and ironically as a "chronicler without a message" in dramas and novels, she said.
Hein's best-known works include short stories and novels such as “The Foreign Friend”, “Horn's End”, “The Tango Player” and “Execution of a Calf” as well as “The Knights of the Round Table”.
The author, who comes from Silesia and grew up in Saxony, lived in the GDR after the Wall was built in 1961 and has lived in the unified Berlin since the fall of the Wall in 1989.
He is considered one of the most important literary witnesses to the decline of the GDR.
From 1998 to 2000 he was President of the PEN Center.
Hein has received awards including the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the Uwe Johnson Prize.
One speaks of a legacy as in this case when archive material is made available during one's lifetime.
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