Reiner Kunze, German poet and translator

Reiner Kunze

German writer and GDR dissident (born 1933)

Reiner Kunze is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact countries invasion of Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring. He had to publish…