Martin Walser
Martin Walser was born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, Bavaria, Germany on March 24th, 1927 and is the Novelist. At the age of 97, Martin Walser biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Martin Walser (born 24 March 1927) is a German writer.
Life
Walser was born in Bodensee, on Lake Constance, and he was born. His parents were coal dealers, and they also owned an inn next to the train station in Wasserburg. He referred to the climate in which he grew up in his book Ein springender Brunnen (English: A Gushing Fountain). He was a student at the secondary school in Lindau in 1938 to 1943 and spent as an anti-aircraft unit. Walser denied that he knowingly joined the Nazi Party on April 20, 1944, a charge denied by historian Juliane Wetzel. He was a soldier in the Wehrmacht by the end of the Second World War. He returned to his studies and completed his Abitur in 1946. At the University of Regensburg and the University of Tübingen, he then studied literature, history, and philosophy. He obtained his doctorate in literature in 1951 for a dissertation on Franz Kafka, which was written under Friedrich Beißner's direction.
Walser wrote his first radio plays while studying and worked as a reporter for the Süddeutsche Rundfunk radio station. He married Katharina "Käthe" Neuner-Jehle in 1950. Franziska Walser is an actor, Alissa Walser is a writer, and Johanna and Theresia Walser are professional writers. Johanna has occasionally published in collaboration with her father. Jakob Augstein, a German journalist, is Walser's illegitimate son from a friendship with translator Maria Carlsson.
Walser started attending conferences of the Gruppe 47 (Group 47), which gave him a medal for his book Templone's End) in 1955. Ehen in Philippsburg (English: Marriages in Philippsburg) was his first book, and it was a huge success. Walser has been writing as a freelance writer since being in New York. Ein fliehendes Pferd (English: A Runaway Horse), published 1978, was both a commercial and critical success.
In 1981, Walser was given the Georg Büchner Prize.
After the death of Suhrkamp director Siegfried Unseld in 2004, Walser left his long-time publisher Suhrkamp Verlag for Rowohlt Verlag. Walser could have exclusive access to any of his projects with him thanks to an unusual clause in his Suhrkamp Verlag deal. Walser's primary factor in triggering the change was a lack of active help from his publisher amid the scandal surrounding his book Tod dens Critics (English: "Death of a Critic")).
Walser is a member of Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) in Berlin, Sächsische Akademie der Literature und "Mounting), Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (German Academy of Literature and Dichtung, Darmstadt, and member of the German P.E.N.
Walser came in second on the German political magazine Cicero's list of the 500 most influential German intellectuals in 2007, just behind Pope Benedict XVI and ahead of Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass.