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Darmstadt (AP) - The writer Katja Behrens is dead. The 78-year-old died last Saturday evening after a stroke from which she had not recovered, as the Alfa-Veda Verlag announced on Tuesday.
The mayor of her hometown, Jochen Partsch (Greens), emphasized: "Darmstadt and the world are losing a strong, interesting, imaginative voice - we will all miss it."
Born in Berlin in 1942 during World War II, the author had grown into her life as a writer: her grandfather ran a magazine and her mother wrote too - until she was no longer allowed to do so during the Nazi era because she was Jewish.
Behrens found protection from the Nazis in Austria with a pastor, and later she came to Darmstadt.
In the 1970s she was an editor at the Luchterhand literary publisher, and then a freelance writer.
Behrens made her debut in 1978, the volume of short stories "The White Woman".
Her publications also include “The Roman of a Field” (2007) and the 2009 novel “The Little Mouse from Dessau - Moses Mendelssohn's Journey to Berlin in 1743”.
In 2015, Behrens became a tower clerk in Darmstadt for one year.
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The writer had received other awards for her work, such as the Thaddäus Troll Prize 1982, the George Konell Prize awarded by the city of Wiesbaden (2002) and the Eugen Viehof Prize from the German Schiller Foundation (2002).
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