Peter Kurzeck

Peter Kurzeck (10 June 1943 – 25 November 2013) was a German writer.

[1] Peter Kurzeck was born on 10 June 1943, in Tachau, Reichsgau Sudetenland, Nazi Germany.

[2] In 1946, his family moved to Germany and Kurzeck was raised in Staufenberg near Giessen, Hesse.

[2][3] As a young man, he wrote for local newspapers and magazines.

[2] Since the mid-1990s, Kurzeck has been working on a multi-volume autobiographical novel project entitled Das alte Jahrhundert[4] (The Old Century) which, according to its narrative framework, is based in Frankfurt am Main in 1984.

Notice board at the former house of Kurzeck in Staufenberg diagonally across from Peter-Kurzeck-Platz