Gert Hofmann

Details

Instance of

human

Born

29 January 1931

Died

1 July 1993

Place of birth

Limbach-Oberfrohna

Place of death

Erding

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Gert

Family name

Hofmann

Child

Michael Hofmann

Genre

theatre

Occupation

writer, playwright, short story writer, novelist, literary scholar

Citizenship

Germany

Awards

Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, Alfred Döblin Prize, Literary Prize of the State Capital of Munich

archives at

Monacensia – Literaturarchiv und Bibliothek

cause of death

cerebrovascular disease

documentation files at

SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts

educated at

Leipzig University, University of Freiburg

employer

University of Texas at Austin, University of California, Berkeley, University of Paris, University of Ljubljana, University of Toulouse (1896-1968)

languages spoken, written or signed

German

manner of death

natural causes

member of

German Academy for Language and Literature

participant in

Ingeborg Bachmann Award 1979

Authority files