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- Peter Härtling was born on November 13, 1933 in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany. He was a writer, known for Like a Child of the Wind (1992), Krücke (1993) and Florian (1990). He was married to Mechthild Maier. He died on July 10, 2017 in Rüsselsheim am Main, Germany.
- SpouseMechthild Maier(July 3, 1959 - July 10, 2017) (his death, 4 children)
- Feeling foreign was one of writer Peter Härtling's favorite subjects - because he experienced it himself as an orphaned war deportee.
- Härtling has worked as the editor of the magazine Der Monat, and as the president of the Hölderlin society.
- In the winter semester of 1983/84, he hosted the annual Frankfurter Poetik-Vorlesungen, a lecture series, in which a prominent writer discourses on topics pertaining to their work. Härtling used his lectureship to demonstrate the process of using a found object as the inspiration for a literary work. During the series of lectures, he wrote Der spanische Soldat, a short story based on a photograph by Robert Capa.
- He was a member of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, and he received the Großes Verdienstkreuz for his major contribution to German literature.
- Following the outbreak of World War II, the family moved to the German-occupied town of Olomouc in Moravia. Like many of the town's German residents, Härtling's family fled before the Red Army's advance on the city during the final months of the war; the family briefly settled in Zwettl, Austria.
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