Kühn became known through biographies, where he zudichtete real people fictional experiences. So he asked the composer Beethoven an African slave to the side or thought of what would have happened, Adolf Hitler would not have survived the assassination attempt in 1938 in Munich. Great recognition Kühn was given for his translations from the medieval German. Was praised his biography of the late medieval poet Oswald von Wolkenstein: “I, Wolkenstein”
Kühn was born on February 1, 1935 in Cologne, spent his childhood and adolescence but in Bavaria.. Thither the mother had moved with him during the war because of the bombing. Later, the family came to Düren near Aachen. Kühn studied in Freiburg, Munich and Bonn and received his doctorate with a thesis on Robert Musil’s “The Man Without Qualities”. He received many awards, last year awarded him the state of Rhineland-Palatinate with the Carl Zuckmayer Medal for his life’s work.
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