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.