He was born in Landsberg an der Warthe in 1929 and died in Berlin in December 2011. He studied German language and literature in Jena and Leipzig, and soon began working as a literary critic. In 1974 she was elected a member of the East Berlin Academy of Arts, and from 1981 she was also a member of the West Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. His extensive work, awarded with numerous prizes such as the Heinrich Mann of the Academy of Art of the former German Democratic Republic in 1963, the Austrian National Prize for European Literature in 1985, the Geschwister-Scholl Prize in 1987 and the National Art Prize And Literature that same year, or Nelly Sachs in 1999, among others, stands out for his tireless experimentation and his personal style, and it includes titles like News on Christa T. (1967), Sample of infancy (1972), Under the lindens (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2004), and A Day of the Year (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2006). In addition to this, it is possible to find a way to get the best results.