Prof. Dr. Walter Jens, honorary citizen of the city of Tübingen.
Jens was a German old philology, literature historian, author, critic, and translator. He was full professor (Ordinarius) for rhetoric at the Eberhard Karl University Tübingen, president of the P.E.N. center in Germany and president of Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste) in Berlin.
His father was bank director and his mother teacher in Hamburg. He attended schools in Hamburg.
1941 to 1945 he studied German philology (Germanistik) and classic philology in Hamburg and later on in Freiburg im Breisgau. Among his teachers were Bruno Snell und Martin Heidegger. Due to his severe asthma he was excepted from any military service. He was member of the Hitler Jugend and of the NS-Studentenbund, since 1. Sep. 1942 he was mentioned to be a member of the NSDAP. He was a soccer fan of the local soccer club Eimsbütteler TV, later he was keeper in a students' soccer team in Freiburg.
He took his habilitation 1949 at the age of 26 in Tübingen with an unpublished novel "Tacitus und die Freiheit" [Tacitus and Freedom].
In 1951 he was married to the literary scholar Inge Puttfarcken. They had two sons, the journalist Tilman Jens (1954) and the television editor Christoph Jens (1965).
Since 1950 he was member of the group "Gruppe 47" a circle of German writers. This year he had his break through with publishing the book "Nein. Die Welt der Angeklagten" [No. World of the Accused]. Jens protested with this book against an utopic model of totalitarian power.
In 1956 he was called for a professorship for classic philology to Tübingen. In his narration "Das Testament des Odysseus" [Odysseus' last Will] he reinterpreted the antique figure to be an anti-hero and pacifist who fails to stop the Trojan war.
1961 he opened the Frankfurter Buchmesse [Literature Fair Frankfurt] with his speech „Plädoyer für das Positive in der modernen Literatur" [Plea for the positive in modern literature].
1962 he became member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry.
1963 he took the professorship for general rhetoric in Tübingen. This chair was created especially for him and he held it until 1988.
In the "Gruppe 47" he became a highly feared critic during the lectures.
1971 he was called to be a member of the foundation senat of the University Bremen.
He was president of the P.E.N. center of Germany from 1976 to 1982 and from 1988 bis 1989.
1989 to 1997 he was president of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. He successfully led the difficult reunification with the East- Academy. He is its honorary president.
1990 to 1995 he was chairman of the Martin-Niemöller-Stiftung.
He understood himself as a writer and protestant - as a christ and pacifist.
He translated parts of the New Testament: The Four Apostles, Paul's Epistle to the Romans and the Book of Revelation (Offenbarung des Johannes). He had an enduring friendship to Hans Küng and Ralph Giordano.
From the early 1980s Jens was involved in the peace movement and in the resistance against the NATO double-track decision and the stationing of Pershing missiles. He participated together with Heinrich Böll and other well-known writers and theologians in early September 1983 at the "VIP blockade" at the Pershing missile depot in Mutlangen.
During the Second Gulf War he and his wife hided deserted US soldiers at their home.
He was member of the advisory board of the Humanist Union.
From 1989 to 2011 he was co-editor of the monthly periodical "Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik" [Sheets for German and international politics].
2004 he started suffering from dementia. His son Tilman made his father's illness public and caused an debate about dementia in the German Medias. In the following Tilman published the books "Demenz: Abschied von meinem Vater" [Dementia: Farewell to my Father] and "Vatermord: Wider einen Generalverdacht" [Father Murder: Against a General Suspicion].
Walter Jens:
„Wäre es denn wirklich ein Gewinn …, ein Gewinn für den Menschen, wenn er unsterblich wäre, statt – wie bald! – zu vergehen und plötzlich dahinzumüssen? Wäre es ein Gewinn für ihn: nicht in der Zeit zu sein, sondern unvergänglich wie – vielleicht – ein Stein oder ein ferner Stern? Liegt nicht gerade in der Vergänglichkeit, und vor allem, im Wissen darum, seine ihn auszeichnende unvergleichliche Kraft?"
[Would it really be an advantage ... an advantage for man, if he were immortal, rather than - as soon! - to decease and suddenly pass away? Would it be an advantage for him: not to be in the time, but everlasting as - perhaps - a stone or a distant star? Does not lie man's featuring and incomparable power in the impermanence, and especially in the knowledge of impermanence?]
Awards
1951: Award of Amis de la Liberté
1959: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Ilias and Odyssee [German Youth Literature Prize for ...]
1968: Lessing-Preis der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg [Lessing-Awrad of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg]
1981: Heinrich-Heine-Preis der Stadt Düsseldorf [Heinrich-Heine-Award of the town Düsseldorf]
1982: Ehrenpräsident des P.E.N.-Zentrums der Bundesrepublik Deutschland [Honorary President of P.E.N. center Germany]
1983: Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich [Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria]
1984: Adolf-Grimme-Preis [Adolf-Grimme-Award]
1988: Alternativer Büchnerpreis [Alternative Büchner's Award]; Theodor-Heuss-Preis [-Award] together with Inge Jens
1989: Hermann-Sinsheimer-Preis [Hermann-Sinsheimer-Award]
1990: Österreichischer Staatspreis für Kulturpublizistik [Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism]
1992: Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst [Austrian Honour for Science and Art]
1992: Stiftungsgastdozentur Poetik der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main [Foundation's Guest Chair for Poetry at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main]
1997: Bruno Snell-Plakette für beispielhaftes Wirken in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft der Universität Hamburg [Bruno Snell plaque for outstanding work in science and society of the University of Hamburg]
1997: Ehrenpräsident der Akademie der Künste, Berlin [Honorary President of Academy of Arts in Berlin]
1998: Ernst-Reuter-Plakette [Ernst-Reuter-plaque]
2002: Predigtpreis des Verlags für die Deutsche Wirtschaft [Sermon price of "Publisher for the German Economy"]
2003: Bundesverdienstkreuz [The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]
2003: Corine Literature Prize together with his wife Inge Jens
Works overview
15 major works on fiction
32 major works on none fiction
7 Translations
2 movies
∼Was a German philologist,critic,literature hishorian,university professor and writer.During WW11 he was one of the Hitler Youth. He was 90 and had been suffering from dementia since 2004.
Jens was a German old philology, literature historian, author, critic, and translator. He was full professor (Ordinarius) for rhetoric at the Eberhard Karl University Tübingen, president of the P.E.N. center in Germany and president of Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste) in Berlin.
His father was bank director and his mother teacher in Hamburg. He attended schools in Hamburg.
1941 to 1945 he studied German philology (Germanistik) and classic philology in Hamburg and later on in Freiburg im Breisgau. Among his teachers were Bruno Snell und Martin Heidegger. Due to his severe asthma he was excepted from any military service. He was member of the Hitler Jugend and of the NS-Studentenbund, since 1. Sep. 1942 he was mentioned to be a member of the NSDAP. He was a soccer fan of the local soccer club Eimsbütteler TV, later he was keeper in a students' soccer team in Freiburg.
He took his habilitation 1949 at the age of 26 in Tübingen with an unpublished novel "Tacitus und die Freiheit" [Tacitus and Freedom].
In 1951 he was married to the literary scholar Inge Puttfarcken. They had two sons, the journalist Tilman Jens (1954) and the television editor Christoph Jens (1965).
Since 1950 he was member of the group "Gruppe 47" a circle of German writers. This year he had his break through with publishing the book "Nein. Die Welt der Angeklagten" [No. World of the Accused]. Jens protested with this book against an utopic model of totalitarian power.
In 1956 he was called for a professorship for classic philology to Tübingen. In his narration "Das Testament des Odysseus" [Odysseus' last Will] he reinterpreted the antique figure to be an anti-hero and pacifist who fails to stop the Trojan war.
1961 he opened the Frankfurter Buchmesse [Literature Fair Frankfurt] with his speech „Plädoyer für das Positive in der modernen Literatur" [Plea for the positive in modern literature].
1962 he became member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry.
1963 he took the professorship for general rhetoric in Tübingen. This chair was created especially for him and he held it until 1988.
In the "Gruppe 47" he became a highly feared critic during the lectures.
1971 he was called to be a member of the foundation senat of the University Bremen.
He was president of the P.E.N. center of Germany from 1976 to 1982 and from 1988 bis 1989.
1989 to 1997 he was president of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. He successfully led the difficult reunification with the East- Academy. He is its honorary president.
1990 to 1995 he was chairman of the Martin-Niemöller-Stiftung.
He understood himself as a writer and protestant - as a christ and pacifist.
He translated parts of the New Testament: The Four Apostles, Paul's Epistle to the Romans and the Book of Revelation (Offenbarung des Johannes). He had an enduring friendship to Hans Küng and Ralph Giordano.
From the early 1980s Jens was involved in the peace movement and in the resistance against the NATO double-track decision and the stationing of Pershing missiles. He participated together with Heinrich Böll and other well-known writers and theologians in early September 1983 at the "VIP blockade" at the Pershing missile depot in Mutlangen.
During the Second Gulf War he and his wife hided deserted US soldiers at their home.
He was member of the advisory board of the Humanist Union.
From 1989 to 2011 he was co-editor of the monthly periodical "Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik" [Sheets for German and international politics].
2004 he started suffering from dementia. His son Tilman made his father's illness public and caused an debate about dementia in the German Medias. In the following Tilman published the books "Demenz: Abschied von meinem Vater" [Dementia: Farewell to my Father] and "Vatermord: Wider einen Generalverdacht" [Father Murder: Against a General Suspicion].
Walter Jens:
„Wäre es denn wirklich ein Gewinn …, ein Gewinn für den Menschen, wenn er unsterblich wäre, statt – wie bald! – zu vergehen und plötzlich dahinzumüssen? Wäre es ein Gewinn für ihn: nicht in der Zeit zu sein, sondern unvergänglich wie – vielleicht – ein Stein oder ein ferner Stern? Liegt nicht gerade in der Vergänglichkeit, und vor allem, im Wissen darum, seine ihn auszeichnende unvergleichliche Kraft?"
[Would it really be an advantage ... an advantage for man, if he were immortal, rather than - as soon! - to decease and suddenly pass away? Would it be an advantage for him: not to be in the time, but everlasting as - perhaps - a stone or a distant star? Does not lie man's featuring and incomparable power in the impermanence, and especially in the knowledge of impermanence?]
Awards
1951: Award of Amis de la Liberté
1959: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Ilias and Odyssee [German Youth Literature Prize for ...]
1968: Lessing-Preis der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg [Lessing-Awrad of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg]
1981: Heinrich-Heine-Preis der Stadt Düsseldorf [Heinrich-Heine-Award of the town Düsseldorf]
1982: Ehrenpräsident des P.E.N.-Zentrums der Bundesrepublik Deutschland [Honorary President of P.E.N. center Germany]
1983: Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich [Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria]
1984: Adolf-Grimme-Preis [Adolf-Grimme-Award]
1988: Alternativer Büchnerpreis [Alternative Büchner's Award]; Theodor-Heuss-Preis [-Award] together with Inge Jens
1989: Hermann-Sinsheimer-Preis [Hermann-Sinsheimer-Award]
1990: Österreichischer Staatspreis für Kulturpublizistik [Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism]
1992: Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst [Austrian Honour for Science and Art]
1992: Stiftungsgastdozentur Poetik der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main [Foundation's Guest Chair for Poetry at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main]
1997: Bruno Snell-Plakette für beispielhaftes Wirken in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft der Universität Hamburg [Bruno Snell plaque for outstanding work in science and society of the University of Hamburg]
1997: Ehrenpräsident der Akademie der Künste, Berlin [Honorary President of Academy of Arts in Berlin]
1998: Ernst-Reuter-Plakette [Ernst-Reuter-plaque]
2002: Predigtpreis des Verlags für die Deutsche Wirtschaft [Sermon price of "Publisher for the German Economy"]
2003: Bundesverdienstkreuz [The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]
2003: Corine Literature Prize together with his wife Inge Jens
Works overview
15 major works on fiction
32 major works on none fiction
7 Translations
2 movies
∼Was a German philologist,critic,literature hishorian,university professor and writer.During WW11 he was one of the Hitler Youth. He was 90 and had been suffering from dementia since 2004.
Prof. Dr. Walter Jens, honorary citizen of the city of Tübingen.
Jens was a German old philology, literature historian, author, critic, and translator. He was full professor (Ordinarius) for rhetoric at the Eberhard Karl University Tübingen, president of the P.E.N. center in Germany and president of Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste) in Berlin.
His father was bank director and his mother teacher in Hamburg. He attended schools in Hamburg.
1941 to 1945 he studied German philology (Germanistik) and classic philology in Hamburg and later on in Freiburg im Breisgau. Among his teachers were Bruno Snell und Martin Heidegger. Due to his severe asthma he was excepted from any military service. He was member of the Hitler Jugend and of the NS-Studentenbund, since 1. Sep. 1942 he was mentioned to be a member of the NSDAP. He was a soccer fan of the local soccer club Eimsbütteler TV, later he was keeper in a students' soccer team in Freiburg.
He took his habilitation 1949 at the age of 26 in Tübingen with an unpublished novel "Tacitus und die Freiheit" [Tacitus and Freedom].
In 1951 he was married to the literary scholar Inge Puttfarcken. They had two sons, the journalist Tilman Jens (1954) and the television editor Christoph Jens (1965).
Since 1950 he was member of the group "Gruppe 47" a circle of German writers. This year he had his break through with publishing the book "Nein. Die Welt der Angeklagten" [No. World of the Accused]. Jens protested with this book against an utopic model of totalitarian power.
In 1956 he was called for a professorship for classic philology to Tübingen. In his narration "Das Testament des Odysseus" [Odysseus' last Will] he reinterpreted the antique figure to be an anti-hero and pacifist who fails to stop the Trojan war.
1961 he opened the Frankfurter Buchmesse [Literature Fair Frankfurt] with his speech „Plädoyer für das Positive in der modernen Literatur" [Plea for the positive in modern literature].
1962 he became member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry.
1963 he took the professorship for general rhetoric in Tübingen. This chair was created especially for him and he held it until 1988.
In the "Gruppe 47" he became a highly feared critic during the lectures.
1971 he was called to be a member of the foundation senat of the University Bremen.
He was president of the P.E.N. center of Germany from 1976 to 1982 and from 1988 bis 1989.
1989 to 1997 he was president of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. He successfully led the difficult reunification with the East- Academy. He is its honorary president.
1990 to 1995 he was chairman of the Martin-Niemöller-Stiftung.
He understood himself as a writer and protestant - as a christ and pacifist.
He translated parts of the New Testament: The Four Apostles, Paul's Epistle to the Romans and the Book of Revelation (Offenbarung des Johannes). He had an enduring friendship to Hans Küng and Ralph Giordano.
From the early 1980s Jens was involved in the peace movement and in the resistance against the NATO double-track decision and the stationing of Pershing missiles. He participated together with Heinrich Böll and other well-known writers and theologians in early September 1983 at the "VIP blockade" at the Pershing missile depot in Mutlangen.
During the Second Gulf War he and his wife hided deserted US soldiers at their home.
He was member of the advisory board of the Humanist Union.
From 1989 to 2011 he was co-editor of the monthly periodical "Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik" [Sheets for German and international politics].
2004 he started suffering from dementia. His son Tilman made his father's illness public and caused an debate about dementia in the German Medias. In the following Tilman published the books "Demenz: Abschied von meinem Vater" [Dementia: Farewell to my Father] and "Vatermord: Wider einen Generalverdacht" [Father Murder: Against a General Suspicion].
Walter Jens:
„Wäre es denn wirklich ein Gewinn …, ein Gewinn für den Menschen, wenn er unsterblich wäre, statt – wie bald! – zu vergehen und plötzlich dahinzumüssen? Wäre es ein Gewinn für ihn: nicht in der Zeit zu sein, sondern unvergänglich wie – vielleicht – ein Stein oder ein ferner Stern? Liegt nicht gerade in der Vergänglichkeit, und vor allem, im Wissen darum, seine ihn auszeichnende unvergleichliche Kraft?"
[Would it really be an advantage ... an advantage for man, if he were immortal, rather than - as soon! - to decease and suddenly pass away? Would it be an advantage for him: not to be in the time, but everlasting as - perhaps - a stone or a distant star? Does not lie man's featuring and incomparable power in the impermanence, and especially in the knowledge of impermanence?]
Awards
1951: Award of Amis de la Liberté
1959: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Ilias and Odyssee [German Youth Literature Prize for ...]
1968: Lessing-Preis der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg [Lessing-Awrad of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg]
1981: Heinrich-Heine-Preis der Stadt Düsseldorf [Heinrich-Heine-Award of the town Düsseldorf]
1982: Ehrenpräsident des P.E.N.-Zentrums der Bundesrepublik Deutschland [Honorary President of P.E.N. center Germany]
1983: Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich [Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria]
1984: Adolf-Grimme-Preis [Adolf-Grimme-Award]
1988: Alternativer Büchnerpreis [Alternative Büchner's Award]; Theodor-Heuss-Preis [-Award] together with Inge Jens
1989: Hermann-Sinsheimer-Preis [Hermann-Sinsheimer-Award]
1990: Österreichischer Staatspreis für Kulturpublizistik [Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism]
1992: Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst [Austrian Honour for Science and Art]
1992: Stiftungsgastdozentur Poetik der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main [Foundation's Guest Chair for Poetry at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main]
1997: Bruno Snell-Plakette für beispielhaftes Wirken in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft der Universität Hamburg [Bruno Snell plaque for outstanding work in science and society of the University of Hamburg]
1997: Ehrenpräsident der Akademie der Künste, Berlin [Honorary President of Academy of Arts in Berlin]
1998: Ernst-Reuter-Plakette [Ernst-Reuter-plaque]
2002: Predigtpreis des Verlags für die Deutsche Wirtschaft [Sermon price of "Publisher for the German Economy"]
2003: Bundesverdienstkreuz [The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]
2003: Corine Literature Prize together with his wife Inge Jens
Works overview
15 major works on fiction
32 major works on none fiction
7 Translations
2 movies
∼Was a German philologist,critic,literature hishorian,university professor and writer.During WW11 he was one of the Hitler Youth. He was 90 and had been suffering from dementia since 2004.
Jens was a German old philology, literature historian, author, critic, and translator. He was full professor (Ordinarius) for rhetoric at the Eberhard Karl University Tübingen, president of the P.E.N. center in Germany and president of Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste) in Berlin.
His father was bank director and his mother teacher in Hamburg. He attended schools in Hamburg.
1941 to 1945 he studied German philology (Germanistik) and classic philology in Hamburg and later on in Freiburg im Breisgau. Among his teachers were Bruno Snell und Martin Heidegger. Due to his severe asthma he was excepted from any military service. He was member of the Hitler Jugend and of the NS-Studentenbund, since 1. Sep. 1942 he was mentioned to be a member of the NSDAP. He was a soccer fan of the local soccer club Eimsbütteler TV, later he was keeper in a students' soccer team in Freiburg.
He took his habilitation 1949 at the age of 26 in Tübingen with an unpublished novel "Tacitus und die Freiheit" [Tacitus and Freedom].
In 1951 he was married to the literary scholar Inge Puttfarcken. They had two sons, the journalist Tilman Jens (1954) and the television editor Christoph Jens (1965).
Since 1950 he was member of the group "Gruppe 47" a circle of German writers. This year he had his break through with publishing the book "Nein. Die Welt der Angeklagten" [No. World of the Accused]. Jens protested with this book against an utopic model of totalitarian power.
In 1956 he was called for a professorship for classic philology to Tübingen. In his narration "Das Testament des Odysseus" [Odysseus' last Will] he reinterpreted the antique figure to be an anti-hero and pacifist who fails to stop the Trojan war.
1961 he opened the Frankfurter Buchmesse [Literature Fair Frankfurt] with his speech „Plädoyer für das Positive in der modernen Literatur" [Plea for the positive in modern literature].
1962 he became member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry.
1963 he took the professorship for general rhetoric in Tübingen. This chair was created especially for him and he held it until 1988.
In the "Gruppe 47" he became a highly feared critic during the lectures.
1971 he was called to be a member of the foundation senat of the University Bremen.
He was president of the P.E.N. center of Germany from 1976 to 1982 and from 1988 bis 1989.
1989 to 1997 he was president of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. He successfully led the difficult reunification with the East- Academy. He is its honorary president.
1990 to 1995 he was chairman of the Martin-Niemöller-Stiftung.
He understood himself as a writer and protestant - as a christ and pacifist.
He translated parts of the New Testament: The Four Apostles, Paul's Epistle to the Romans and the Book of Revelation (Offenbarung des Johannes). He had an enduring friendship to Hans Küng and Ralph Giordano.
From the early 1980s Jens was involved in the peace movement and in the resistance against the NATO double-track decision and the stationing of Pershing missiles. He participated together with Heinrich Böll and other well-known writers and theologians in early September 1983 at the "VIP blockade" at the Pershing missile depot in Mutlangen.
During the Second Gulf War he and his wife hided deserted US soldiers at their home.
He was member of the advisory board of the Humanist Union.
From 1989 to 2011 he was co-editor of the monthly periodical "Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik" [Sheets for German and international politics].
2004 he started suffering from dementia. His son Tilman made his father's illness public and caused an debate about dementia in the German Medias. In the following Tilman published the books "Demenz: Abschied von meinem Vater" [Dementia: Farewell to my Father] and "Vatermord: Wider einen Generalverdacht" [Father Murder: Against a General Suspicion].
Walter Jens:
„Wäre es denn wirklich ein Gewinn …, ein Gewinn für den Menschen, wenn er unsterblich wäre, statt – wie bald! – zu vergehen und plötzlich dahinzumüssen? Wäre es ein Gewinn für ihn: nicht in der Zeit zu sein, sondern unvergänglich wie – vielleicht – ein Stein oder ein ferner Stern? Liegt nicht gerade in der Vergänglichkeit, und vor allem, im Wissen darum, seine ihn auszeichnende unvergleichliche Kraft?"
[Would it really be an advantage ... an advantage for man, if he were immortal, rather than - as soon! - to decease and suddenly pass away? Would it be an advantage for him: not to be in the time, but everlasting as - perhaps - a stone or a distant star? Does not lie man's featuring and incomparable power in the impermanence, and especially in the knowledge of impermanence?]
Awards
1951: Award of Amis de la Liberté
1959: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Ilias and Odyssee [German Youth Literature Prize for ...]
1968: Lessing-Preis der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg [Lessing-Awrad of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg]
1981: Heinrich-Heine-Preis der Stadt Düsseldorf [Heinrich-Heine-Award of the town Düsseldorf]
1982: Ehrenpräsident des P.E.N.-Zentrums der Bundesrepublik Deutschland [Honorary President of P.E.N. center Germany]
1983: Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich [Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria]
1984: Adolf-Grimme-Preis [Adolf-Grimme-Award]
1988: Alternativer Büchnerpreis [Alternative Büchner's Award]; Theodor-Heuss-Preis [-Award] together with Inge Jens
1989: Hermann-Sinsheimer-Preis [Hermann-Sinsheimer-Award]
1990: Österreichischer Staatspreis für Kulturpublizistik [Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism]
1992: Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst [Austrian Honour for Science and Art]
1992: Stiftungsgastdozentur Poetik der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main [Foundation's Guest Chair for Poetry at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main]
1997: Bruno Snell-Plakette für beispielhaftes Wirken in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft der Universität Hamburg [Bruno Snell plaque for outstanding work in science and society of the University of Hamburg]
1997: Ehrenpräsident der Akademie der Künste, Berlin [Honorary President of Academy of Arts in Berlin]
1998: Ernst-Reuter-Plakette [Ernst-Reuter-plaque]
2002: Predigtpreis des Verlags für die Deutsche Wirtschaft [Sermon price of "Publisher for the German Economy"]
2003: Bundesverdienstkreuz [The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]
2003: Corine Literature Prize together with his wife Inge Jens
Works overview
15 major works on fiction
32 major works on none fiction
7 Translations
2 movies
∼Was a German philologist,critic,literature hishorian,university professor and writer.During WW11 he was one of the Hitler Youth. He was 90 and had been suffering from dementia since 2004.
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