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Klaus Ernst
Klaus Ernst (born 1 November 1954 in Munich) is a left-wing German politician and was a leading member of the Labour and Social Justice Party and now The Left. The certified political economist has served as a member of The Left in the Bundestag since 2005, and as of 2010 has been co-chairing the party together with Gesine Lötzsch.
At the age of 15 he left his home and school because of his violent father. In 1970 he found work as an electronics technician and was
radio plays. Four of them she wrote together with Ernst Jandl, with whom she lived together from 1954 until his death in 2000.
Mayröcker describes her working process as follows:
"I live in pictures. I see everything in pictures, my complete past, memories are pictures. I transform pictures into language by climbing into the picture. I walk into it until it becomes language."
Works.
- "Gesammelte Prosa 1949-2001" (collected prose) ed. by Klaus Reichert, 5