Günter de Bruyn

Günter de Bruyn was born in Berlin in November 1926; his father Carl was a Catholic from Bavaria.

Wounded, he was then held in custody by the United States as a prisoner of war; after his release he found a job as a farm worker in Hesse.

Subsequently, he trained as a librarian and worked at the Zentralinstitut für Bibliothekswesen (Central Institute for Library Knowledge) in East Berlin from 1953 to 1961.

De Bruyn later lived in the village of Görsdorf (part of the municipality of Tauche) in Brandenburg, as well as in Berlin.

[1] Günter de Bruyn's works range from the frequently autobiographically colored Realist novels and narratives which explain critiques of the private lives of the artists in East Germany to essays on literary science and historical themes, particularly Prussian history.