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Johnson was born in Kammin (now Kamien Pomorski, Poland). At the end of World War II in 1945, he fled with his family to Mecklenburg; his father died in a Soviet internment camp (Fünfeichen). The family eventually settled in Güstrow, where he attended John-Brinckman-Oberschule 1948-1952. He went on to study German philology, first in Rostock (1952-54), then in Leipzig (1954-56). His Diplomarbeit (undergraduate thesis) was on Ernst Barlach. Due to his lack of political support for the Communist regime of East Germany, he was suspended from the University June 17, 1953, but was later reinstated. Kamień Pomorski is a town in the north of Poland, in the West-Pomeranian Voivodship. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mecklenburg is a geographical area located in Northern Germany. ... State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Socialist republics/ Communist state Area  - Total  - % water Largest on the planet 22,402,200 km² ?% Population  - Total  - Density 3rd before collapse 293,047,571 (July... Map of Germany showing Güstrow Güstrow is a town in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Philology is the study of ancient texts and languages. ... Rostock (Slavic origin: roztoka, Polish: Roztoka) is a city in northern Germany. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Leipzig â–¶(?) [] (Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the federal state (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The young Ernst Barlach Ernst Barlach, (January 2, 1870 in Wedel, Pinneberg, Germany - October 24, 1938 in Rostock, Germany) was a famous German expressionist sculptor. ... Communism refers to a theoretical system of social organization and a political movement based on common ownership of the means of production. ... East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a socialist state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany. ... June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (169th in leap years), with 197 days remaining. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

Beginning in 1953, he worked on the novel Ingrid Babendererde, rejected by various publishing houses and unpublished during his lifetime.

In 1956, his mother left for West Berlin. As a result, he was not allowed to work a normal job in the East. 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, again rejected by several publishing houses, before being published in 1959 by Suhrkamp in West Berlin. Johnson himself moved to the West at this time. There, he promptly became associated with Gruppe 47, which Hans Magnus Enzensberger once described as "the Central Café of a literature without a capital." [1] 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Boroughs of West Berlin West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. ... Herman Melville Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, essayist, and poet. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Gruppe 47 (Group 47) was a literary association in Germany after WW II. // Early history The beginnings reach back to 1946 when Alfred Andersch and Walter Kolbenhoff founded the literary magazine Der Ruf (The Call) in Munich. ... Hans Magnus Enzensberger (born 11 November 1929), is a German author and poet, also known under the pseudonym Andreas Thalmayr. ...

During the early 1960s, he continued to write and publish fiction, but supported himself largely as a translator, mainly of from English-language works, and as an editor. 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 International Publishers' Formentor Prize. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo (ital. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1...

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In 1965, he travelled again to America and edited Bertolt Brecht's Me-ti. Buch der Wendungen. Fragmente 1933-1956 (Me-ti: the Book of Changes. Fragments, 1933-1956). From 1966 through 1968 he worked in New York City as a textbook editor at Harcourt, Brace & World. During this time (in 1967 he began work on his masterwork, the Jahrestage and edited Das neue Fenster (The new window), a textbook of German-language readings for English-speaking students learning German. 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Bertolt Brecht Bertolt Brecht (February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956) was an influential German dramatist, stage director, and poet of the 20th century. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... The city is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture, and is one of the worlds major global cities (along with London, Tokyo and Paris) with a virtually unrivaled collection of museums, galleries, performance venues, media outlets, international corporations, and stock exchanges. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On January 1, 1967 protestors from his own West Berlin apartment building founded Kommune 1. Johnson first learned about it by reading it in the newspaper. Returning to West Berlin in 1969, he became a member of the West German PEN Center and of the Akademie der Künste (Academy of the Arts). In 1970, he published the first volume of his masterwork, the Jahrestage (Anniversary). Two more volumes were to follow in the next three years, but the fourth volume would not appear until 1983. January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kommune 1 or K1 was the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... Logo of International PEN International PEN, the worldwide association of writers, was founded in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere; to emphasise the role of literature in the development of mutual understanding and world culture; to fight for freedom of expression; and to act as... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Meanwhile, in 1972 he became Vice President of the Academy of the Arts and had a lectureship on Max Frisch's Tagebuch 1966-1971. In 1974, he moved to Sheerness-on-Sea on the English Channel Island of Sheppey; shortly after, he broke off work on Jahrestage due to partly to health problems and partly to writer's block. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... The Isle of Sheppey is a small (36 square miles, 94 km²) island off the northern coast of Kent in the Thames Estuary, some 25 miles (40km) to the east of central London. ... Writers block is the psychological or social condition in which a writer temporarily loses the capability to continue writing, whether through losing inspiration or confidence in his/her creativity, or through other personal difficulties. ...

This was not a completely unproductive period. He published some shorter works and continued to do some work as an editor. 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. In 1979 he gave a series of Lectures on poetics at the University of Frankfurt (published posthumously as Begleitumstände. Frankfurter Vorlesungen). For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland (federal state) of Hessen in Germany. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

In 1983, the fourth volume of Jahrestage was published, but he broke off a reading tour due to health reasons. Johnson died February 22, 1984 in Sheerness-on-Sea in England. His body was not found until March 13 of the same year. At the time of his death, he had been planning a one-year stay in New York City. 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... February 22 is the 53rd day of every year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Travel guide to England from Wikitravel English language English law English (people) List of monarchs of England – Kings of England family tree List of English people Angeln (region in northern Germany, presumably the origin of the Angles for whom England is named) UK... March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ... The city is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture, and is one of the worlds major global cities (along with London, Tokyo and Paris) with a virtually unrivaled collection of museums, galleries, performance venues, media outlets, international corporations, and stock exchanges. ...

Honors

• 1960 - Fontane Prize, West Berlin
• 1962 - Formentor Prize
• 1971 - Georg Büchner Prize
• 1975 - Wilhelm Raabe Prize, Braunschweig
• 1978 - Thomas Mann Prize, Lübeck
• 1983 - Literature prize from the city of Cologne

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Works

• Mutmassungen über Jakob (1959, Presumptions about Jakob)
• Das dritte Buch über Achim (1961, The third book about Achim)
• Translator of Herman Melville's Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (1961)
• Translator of Das Nibelungenlied from Middle High German (1961)
• Translator of John Knowles's A Separate Peace (1959) as In diesem Land (1963)
• Karsch, und andere Prosa (1964, Karsch, and other prose)
• Zwei Ansichten (1965 Two opinions)
• Editor of Bertolt Brecht's Me-ti. Buch der Wendungen. Fragmente 1933-1956 (Me-ti: the Book of Changes. Fragments, 1933-1956) (1965)
• Editor of Das neue Fenster, a textbook of German-language readings for foreign students (1967)
• Editor of textbook for the documentary film "A Summer in the City" (1968?)
• Jahrestage. Aus dem Leben von Gesine Cresspahl, Volume I (1970, further volumes 1971, 1973, 1983; Anniversary: from the life of Gesine Cresspahl)
• Eine Reise nach Klagenfurt (1974, A trip to Klagenfurt)
• Berliner Sachen, Aufsätze (1975, Berlin things, essays)
• Editor of Max Frisch Stich-Worte (1975, Max Frisch Reference)
• Editor (together with Hans Mayer) of Das Werk von Samuel Beckett. Berliner Colloquium (1975, The work of Samuel Beckett: Berlin Colloquium)
• Von dem Fischer un syner Fru (Of the fisherman and his wife; the German-language title is in dialect): a fairy tale by Philipp Otto Runge with seven pictures by Marcus Behmer, and a retelling and afterword by Uwe Johnson (1976)
• Editor of Verzweigungen. Eine Autobiographie by journalist Margret Boveri (1977, Branchings: an Autobiography)
• "Ein Schiff" ("A Ship") in: Jürgen Habermas (Editor) Stichworte zur "Geistigen Situation der Zeit" (References on "The spiritual situation of the time", Volume 1000 from the publisher Suhrkamp (1979)
• "Ein unergründliches Schiff" ("An unfathomable ship") in: Merkur 33 (1979)
• Skizze eines Verunglückten (Sketch of an accident victim, 1982)
• Begleitumstände. Frankfurter Vorlesungen (1986 -- posthumous; Attendant Circumstances: Frankfurt lectures)
• Ingrid Babendererde. Reifeprüfung 1953 (1992 -- posthumous; Ingrid Babendererde: Final Exam 1953; the "Reifeprüfung" is an examination in German schools, taken at the end of a course of study, and which one must pass to graduate.)

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External links

• Annotated link collection (in German)
• http://www.ndl.germanistik.phil.uni-erlangen.de/johnson.html
• http://www.uwe-johnson-archiv.de/

References

• Raimund Fellinger (Editor): Über Uwe Johnson. Frankfurt/Main, 1992.
• Rainer Gerlach and Matthias Richter (Editor): Uwe Johnson. Frankfurt/Main, 1984.
• Grambow, Jürgen: Uwe Johnson. Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1997.