Ute Erb
German writer · Germany · On the map · Writers · Born 1940 · age 85
Ute Erb is a German writer, poet and translator. She grew up in the German Democratic Republic ; but when she was 16 she escaped illegally to the west, without telling her parents, and ended up living in Cologne "with friends".
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She was driven to it, as she later explained, "by a homesickness for a Germany that simply did not exist". It would not be the last time she would display a well-honed rebellious streak.
