Günther Deicke

Deicke worked as an author with the leading GDR publishers and magazines (Aufbau-Verlag, Verlag der Nation [de], Verlag Volk und Welt [de], Sinn und Form).

He was also active as a translator of works by Boris Pasternak, Mihai Eminescu, Ivan Vazov, Lőrinc Szabó, Vojtech Mihálik.

He has been a freelance writer since 1970 and has published numerous volumes of poetry, such as Du und Dein Land und die Liebe sowie Die Wolken.. Deicke was a member of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin and the PEN Centre Germany.

He received the Berliner Zeitung Critics' Prize in 1968 and 1977, and the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver in 1982.

Deicke died at the age of 83 during a spa stay in Mariánské Lázně and is buried at Cemetery Pankow III [de].