Gerhard Zwerenz

Gerhard Zwerenz (3 June 1925 in Gablenz, Saxony – 13 July 2015) was a German writer and politician. From 1994 until 1998 he was a member of the Bundestag for the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS).

Life

Gerhard Zwerenz was born in Gablenz, a district of Crimmitschau. After an apprenticeship to a coppersmith he enlisted in the Wehrmacht in 1942 and participated in World War II. In 1944 he deserted and became a prisoner of war.

In 1948 he came back to Germany, where he worked as a policeman until 1951. From 1949 until 1957 he was member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. After he became ill with tuberculosis he had to stay in a sanatorium. From 1953 until 1956 he studied philosophy under Ernst Bloch at Leipzig University. From 1956 up until his death in 2015 he worked as a writer. In 1957 Zwerenz was expelled from the SED and soon after fled to West-Berlin. Later he and his wife, writer Ingrid Zwerenz, lived in Munich, Cologne, Offenbach am Main and Oberreifenberg/Taunus.[1]

From 1994 until 1998 Zwerenz was a member of the German Bundestag for the PDS.

Zwerenz died on 13 July 2015, aged 90.[2]

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References

  1. Stefan Müller: Gerhard Zwerenz zum 85. Geburtstag am 3. Juni: Ein Gespräch mit Gerhard Zwerenz: „Ich arbeite jeden Vormittag!“ at poetenladen, 3 June 2010.
  2. Autor Gerhard Zwerenz mit 90 Jahren gestorben at sueddeutsche.de, 13 July 2015.
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