Writer, politician Gerhard Zwerenz died 90-year – Berliner Morgenpost

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 In the GDR, he narrowly avoided the arrest, in the West, he was a famous writer left: The author Gerhard Zwerenz is dead He died on Monday at the age of 90 years after a long illness

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Gerhard Zwerenz belonged in the 70′s of the most famous writers of the West German Left. His works were among more than 100 books – novels about detective stories and children’s books to erotic-pornographic texts. For the PDS, he sat in the 90s in the Bundestag. His time as an MP he worked in the book “War in the greenhouse or the Bundestag as a windmill”. On Monday of living in Hessen author has died after a long illness.

Born in 1925 in the Saxon Gablenz, he became the People’s Police and SED member. As a philosophy student at Ernst Bloch however Zwerenz advocated an anti-Stalinist “special German path to socialism” a. He was expelled from the SED and fled in 1957 to the West. There he distinguished himself quickly as a belligerent left writers. With the “Love the Dead Men” (1959), he wrote one of the first novels about the uprising of 17 June, with “Casanova or the little gentleman in War and Peace” (1966) his first success with the public and with “The earth is so uninhabitable like the Moon “(1973), the prose master of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s scandalous play” Garbage, the City and Death “.

Zwerenz became increasingly combative, but with the 80-years it was quiet around him. But he remained long unbroken productive. He wrote novels, essays, detective stories, porn, movies. His works are said to have reached a total circulation of more than three million copies. 1994 could be Zwerenz, although no party, make of the PDS for election as a deputy and a retired into the Bundestag. He wanted, he said, show the East Germans, how to survive under capitalism, without renouncing his ideals. 1998 Zwerenz not trying to re-election, but returned to the desk.

 (BM)