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| website = }} Siegfried Lenz (17 March 19267 October 2014) was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. ==Life== Siegfried Lenz was born in Lyck, East Prussia (now Ełk, Poland), the son of a customs officer. After graduating in 1943, he was drafted into the ''Kriegsmarine''. According to documents released in June 2007, he may have joined the Nazi Party at the age of 18 on 20 April 1944 along with several other German authors and personalities, such as Dieter Hildebrandt and Martin Walser. However, Lenz subsequently said he had been included in a collective "joining" of the Party without his knowledge. Shortly before the end of World War II, he fled to Denmark, but was held briefly as a prisoner of war in Schleswig-Holstein. He then worked as a translator for the British army. At the University of Hamburg he studied philosophy, English, and literary history. His studies were cut off early when he became an intern for the daily newspaper ''Die Welt'', where he served as an editor from 1950 to 1951. It was there he met his future wife, Liselotte whom he married in 1949. In 1951, Lenz used the money he had earned from his first novel ''Habichte in der Luft'' to finance a trip to Kenya. During his time there, he wrote about the Mau Mau Uprising in his short story "''Lukas, sanftmütiger Knecht''". After 1951 Lenz worked as a freelance writer in Hamburg, where he joined the Group 47 group of writers. Together with Günter Grass, he became engaged with the Social Democratic Party and championed the ''Ostpolitik'' of Willy Brandt. As a supporter of rapprochement with Eastern Europe he was invited to the signing of the Treaty of Warsaw (1970). In October 2011 he was made an honorary citizen of his home town Ełk, which had become Polish as a result of the border changes promulgated at the 1945 Potsdam Conference. In 2003, Lenz joined the Verein für deutsche Rechtschreibung und Sprachpflege (Society for German Spelling and Language Cultivation) to protest the German orthography reform of 1996.〔Claudia Ludwig, "(Siegfried Lenz unterzeichnet die Resolution für die Wiederherstellung der Rechtschreibeinheit )" ''Deutsche Sprachwelt''. Accessed 7 October 2014.〕 He died at the age of 88 on 7 October 2014 in Hamburg.〔(Siegfried Lenz: Novelist and playwright who played a key part in the generation of writers who studied the rise of Nazism )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Siegfried Lenz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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