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Uwe Johnson was born on 20 July, 1934 in Kamień Pomorski, Poland, is a German writer, editor and scholar. Discover Uwe Johnson'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 50 years old?

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Occupation writer
Age 50 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 20 July, 1934
Birthday 20 July
Birthplace Kamień Pomorski, Poland
Date of death 22 February, 1984
Died Place Sheerness, United Kingdom
Nationality Poland

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His wife is Elisabeth Schmidt (m. 1962–1984)

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1933

Fragmente 1933–1956 (Me-ti: the Book of Changes. Fragments, 1933–1956'').

1934

Uwe Johnson (20 July 1934 – 22 February 1984) was a German writer, editor, and scholar.

Johnson was born in Kammin in Pomerania (now Kamień Pomorski, Poland).

His father was a peasant of Swedish descent from Mecklenburg and his mother was from Pomerania.

1945

In 1945 the family fled to Anklam in West Pomerania and in 1946 his father died in a Soviet internment camp (Fünfeichen).

1948

The family eventually settled in Güstrow, where he attended the John Brinckman-Oberschule from 1948 to 1952.

1952

He went on to study German philology, first in Rostock (1952–1954), then in Leipzig (1954–1956).

His Diplomarbeit (final thesis) was on Ernst Barlach.

1953

Due to his failure to show support for the Communist regime of East Germany, he was suspended from the university on 17 June 1953, but he was later reinstated.

Beginning in 1953, Johnson worked on his first novel, Ingrid Babendererde, which was rejected by various publishing houses and remained unpublished during his lifetime.

1956

In 1956, Johnson's mother left for West Berlin.

As a result, he was not allowed to take a normal job in the East.

1960

During the early 1960s, Johnson continued to write and publish fiction, and also supported himself as a translator, mainly from English, and as an editor.

1961

Unemployed for political reasons, he translated Herman Melville's Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (the translation was published in 1961) and began to write the novel Mutmassungen über Jakob, published in 1959 by Suhrkamp in Frankfurt am Main.

Johnson himself moved to West Berlin at this time.

He promptly became associated with Gruppe 47, which Hans Magnus Enzensberger once described as "the Central Café of a literature without a capital".

He travelled to America in 1961.

The following year he was married, had a daughter, received a scholarship to Villa Massimo, Rome, and won the Prix International.

1964

In 1964 he wrote reviews for the Tagesspiegel of television programmes broadcast from East Germany, published later under the title ''Der 5.

1965

In 1965, Johnson travelled again to the United States.

He then edited Bertolt Brecht's ''Me-ti.

Buch der Wendungen.

1966

From 1966 to 1968, he worked in New York City as a textbook editor at Harcourt, Brace & World, and lived with his wife and their daughter in an apartment at 243 Riverside Drive (Manhattan).

1967

In 1967, he began work on his magnum opus, Jahrestage.

and edited Das neue Fenster (The New Window), a textbook of German-language readings for English-speaking students learning German.

In February 1967, the Kommune 1 moved into Johnson's apartment building in West Berlin.

He first learned about in a newspaper report about a plan for a "pudding attack" on the U.S. Vice-President Hubert Humphrey.

1969

Returning to West Germany in 1969, Johnson became a member of both its PEN Center and its Akademie der Künste (Academy of the Arts).

1970

In 1970, he published the first volume of his Jahrestage (Anniversaries).

1972

In 1972, Johnson became Vice President of the Academy of the Arts and edited Max Frisch's Tagebuch 1966–1971.

1974

In 1974, Johnson, his wife and their daughter moved into 26 Marine Parade, a Victorian terrace house overlooking the sea in Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Southeast England.

Shortly afterwards, he broke off work on Jahrestage, due partly to health problems and partly to writer's block.

However, his ten years in Sheerness were not completely unproductive.

He published some shorter works and continued to do some work as an editor.

1977

In 1977, he was admitted to the Darmstädter Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (Darmstadt Academy for Speech and Writing).

Two years later he informally withdrew.

1979

In 1979, he gave a series of lectures on poetics at the University of Frankfurt, published posthumously as ''Begleitumstände.

1983

Two more volumes were to follow in the next three years, but the fourth volume did not appear until 1983.

1987

Kanal [The Fifth Channel], 1987). In the same year he also published a collection of stories, Karsch, und andere Prosa (Karsch, and Other Prose), and, two years later, Zwei Ansichten'' (Two Views).

2020

In 2020, a monograph by cultural historian Patrick Wright, The Sea View Has Me Again, was published by Repeater Books, focusing on Johnson's decade living in Sheerness.