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Walter Jens
German philologist and writer (1923–2013)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 8 March 1923
- Died
- 9 June 2013
- Place of birth
- Hamburg
- Place of death
- Tübingen
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Walter
- Family name
- Jens
- Spouse
- Inge Jens
- Child
- Tilman Jens
- Occupation
- rhetorician, screenwriter, writer, translator, literary historian, literary critic, university teacher, playwright, philologist, critic, Germanist, literary scholar
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Awards
- Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Ernst Reuter Medal, Theodor Heuss Award, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, Heinrich Heine Prize, honorary doctor of the University of Augsburg, Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft (Hamburg)
- archives at
- Archive of the Academy of Arts
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- University of Tübingen, University of Freiburg, University of Hamburg, Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums
- employer
- University of Tübingen
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- member of
- Leibniz Society of Sciences, German Academy for Language and Literature, Academy of Arts, Berlin, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
- member of political party
- Nazi Party
- name in native language
- Walter Jens
- number of children
- 2
- participant in
- Ingeborg Bachmann Award 1979, Ingeborg Bachmann Award 1980, Ingeborg Bachmann Award 1981, Ingeborg Bachmann Award 1983, Ingeborg Bachmann Award 1984, Ingeborg Bachmann Award 1986
- place of burial
- Stadtfriedhof Tübingen
- work location
- Freiburg im Breisgau, Hamburg, Tübingen
- writing language
- German
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