Volker Braun
Volker Braun | |
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Volker Braun (left), alongside Ruth Berghaus (center) and Wieland Förster in Berlin 1981. The image was taken by the Signum photographer Peter Heinz Junge and is deposited in the German Federal Archives | |
| Born | May 7, 1939 Dresden, Gau Saxony, German Reich |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | German |
| Alma mater | Leipzig University |
| Literary movement | Marxism |
| Notable works | The Property |
| Notable awards | |
| Political party | SED |
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Volker Braun (born 7 May 1939 in Dresden) is a German writer. His works include Provokation für mich (Provocation for me) – a collection of poems written between 1959 and 1964 and published in 1965, a play, Die Kipper (The Dumpers) (1972; written 1962–1965), and Das ungezwungene Leben Kasts (The Unrestrained Life of Kast) (1972).