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Mar. 17, 1976 - Author Siegfried Lenz Will Be 50 On March 17th 1976: Author Siegfried Lenz (picture) will become 50 years old on March 17th 1976. Born in Lyck/East Prussia, where he also grew up, he studied philosophy, literature and English philology to become a teacher. 1950 he became a feuilleton editor at a weekly in Hamburg, where he lives now as a free-lance author. Some of his best-known novels are: Brot and Spiele (Bread and Games, 1959), Stadtgesprach (The talk of the town, 1962), Zeit der Schuldlosen (Time of the Guiltless, 1961) and Deutschstunde (German lesson, 1968). Stories: So zartlich war Suleyken (How tender Suleyken was, 1955), Der Geist der Mirabelle - Geschichten sus Bollerup (The ghost of the Mirabelle - Stories from Bollerup, 1974) and his latest one Einstein uberquerte die Elbe bei Hamburg (Einstein crossed the river Elbe near Hamburg, 1975)
