# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/reiner-kunze
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:06:22.214Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/reiner-kunze"
name: "Reiner Kunze"
slug: "reiner-kunze"
description: "Reiner Kunze is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact countries invasion of Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring. He had to publish his work under various pseudonyms. In 1976, his most famous book The Lovely Years, which contained critical insights into the life, and the policies behind the Iron Curtain, was published in West Germany to great acclaim. In 1977, the GDR regime expatriated him, and he moved to West Germany (FRG). He now lives near Passau in Bavaria."
tagline: "German poet, writer, translator, and GDR dissident (born 1933)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Reiner_Kunze_Schorndorf_2012-01-29.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1933-08-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15.48275862068965
  historical:           22.00169733333334
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0475360"
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    url:       "https://www.reiner-kunze.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump