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Mar 21, 1928 Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland Died on 28 Aug 2003 (aged 75)
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About Peter Hacks
- Peter Hacks (21 March 1928 – 28 August 2003) was a German playwright, author, and essayist. Hacks was born in Breslau (Wroclaw), Lower Silesia.
- Displaced by World War II, Hacks settled in Munich in 1947, where he made acquaintance with Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht.
- Hacks then followed Brecht to East Berlin in 1955.
- However, a continued cooperation between him and Brecht did not arise.
- From 1960 Hacks worked as a dramaturge at the Deutsches Theater (DT) in Berlin. When the staging of his play "Die Sorgen und die Macht" (1962) sparked criticism from officials, he gave up his position as a dramaturge at the DT and lived again as a freelance writer. His success on the world stage – most notably with "Ein Gespräch im Hause Stein über den abwesenden Herrn von Goethe" (A Discussion in the Stein Home about the Absent Mr.
- Goethe) – led to his literary acceptance within GDR and West-Germany. Hacks was a communist and supported the East German government's 1976 expatriation of the singer Wolf Biermann.
- His correspondence with the communist historian Kurt Gossweiler has been published. He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis. Hacks died in Groß Machnow.
