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Paul Wiens was born on 17 August, 1922, is a German poet. Discover Paul Wiens's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?

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1921

Wiens' daughter Maja Wiens from his first marriage to Erika Lautenschlager (1921-1989) is also a writer (novel Traumgrenzen, Berlin: Neues Leben 1983 / screenplay Versteckte FalleN DEFA 1991).

1922

Paul Wiens (17 August 1922 – 6 April 1982) was a German poet, translator and author of radio plays and screenplays in the German Democratic Republic.

Wiens was born in Königsberg to a Jewish mother.

1933

However, he spent his childhood in Berlin until his mother emigrated to Switzerland in 1933 after the "Machtergreifung" by the National Socialists.

After passing his school-leaving exams, he took up philosophy studies in Geneva and Lausanne.

1943

In 1943, Wiens was arrested in Vienna for Wehrkraftzersetzung and imprisoned in St. Pölten and in Arbeitserziehungslager Oberlanzendorf (1938-1954 Vienna, otherwise Lower Austria) until the end of the war.

1947

After the end of the Second World War, he returned to Berlin in 1947 via Weimar, where he worked as an editor and translation editor at Aufbau-Verlag until 1950.

1952

Along the way, he published his first poems and youth songs (Begeistert von Berlin, 1952).

From 1952 onwards, he was a freelance writer and wrote mainly poetry and texts for mass songs.

1960

In the 1960s, Wiens worked as a "social informant" with the Stasi.

At the end of the 1960s, he interrupted this activity for a few years because of "ideological stomach ache", then continued it from 1972 until his death as an unofficial collaborator.

He also repeatedly worked for the Soviet KGB.

Wiens "handed over private letters addressed to him, provided detailed denunciatory information on writers from East and West and reported on international writers' meetings in the Soviet Union, Hungary and Yugoslavia", according to Joachim Walther in his standard work Sicherungsbereich Literatur.

1961

Wiens was temporarily vice-president of the Cultural Association of the GDR and from 1961 to 1969 chairman of the Berlin district association of the writers' association of the GDR.

1962

Wiens also wrote screenplays, for example for Frank Vogel's film ... und deine Liebe auch (1962), which justifies the Berlin Wall, and for Konrad Wolf's Sonnensucher (1958).

1964

In 1964, he became a member of the German P.E.N. Centre East and was a member of its executive committee from 1980.

Wiens was buried in the artists' section of Berlin's Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde.

His estate is in the literary archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.

1972

The film deals with the production battles in the uranium mining of Soviet-German Joint Stock Company Wismut and, because of its thematic connection to the production of nuclear weapons, was not premiered until 1972 due to a veto by the Soviet Union at the time.

Furthermore, he translated works by Pablo Neruda, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Nazim Hikmet and others into German.

1977

He provided reports on his GDR colleagues Jurek Becker, Wolf Biermann, Franz Fühmann, Stefan Heym, Sarah Kirsch, Heiner Müller, Ulrich Plenzdorf and Erwin Strittmatter, among others, the Western writers Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass, and Andrei Sakharov, as well as his third wife, the writer Irmtraud Morgner, who divorced him in 1977.

He received several state awards for his informer activities.

1982

Wiens was co-editor of the poetry series "Antwortet uns" (Answer us) and editor-in-chief of the influential literary magazine Sinn und Form in 1982 until his death in Berlin at the age of 59.