Horst Drescher (writer)

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Horst Drescher (born January 2, 1929 in Olbersdorf near Zittau ; † September 22, 2019 in Leipzig , Probstheida) was a German writer .

biography

Horst Drescher lived in the GDR and received the Lion Feuchtwanger Prize from the Berlin Academy of the Arts in 1990 . He was a member of the PEN Center Germany , received the 1991 Literature Prize of the City of Meißen and was accepted into the Saxon Academy of the Arts in 1996 .

Horst Drescher lived and worked in Leipzig .

Awards

Works

literature

  • Jürgen Serke : At home in exile. Poets who stayed in the GDR on their own initiative . Munich u. a .: Piper 1998, p. 405 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Dieckmann : Aphoristics of Socialism - on the death of the Leipzig writer Horst Drescher , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung October 9, 2019, page 11,
  2. Horst Drescher. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume II: PZ. Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , p. 186.