Max von der Grün

Max von der Grün
Born May 25, 1926
Bayreuth
Died April 7, 2005
Dortmund
Nationality German
Genres poetry, proletarian literature

Max von der Grün (May 25, 1926 - April 7, 2005) was a German novelist.

Max von der Grün was born in Bayreuth and grew up in Mitterteich. After a clerical apprenticeship, he became a paratrooper during World War II in 1944. He was captured by U.S. forces near Quimper (France) and became a prisoner of war, spending three years in prison camps in Scotland, Louisiana, Texas, and New Mexico.

After his release, he worked as a bricklayer, and from 1951 to 1963 in the Zeche Königsborn mine near Unna. He started writing in 1955, initially poetry, later focusing on worker-class themes.

He was a founding member of the Dortmunder Gruppe 61, and a member of the International PEN.

von der Grün died in Dortmund.

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