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Wolfdietrich Schnurre
Wolfdietrich Schnurre (22 August 1920 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany – 9 June 1989 in Kiel, West Germany) was a German writer.
Schnurre was an important literary figure of post-war West Germany. Apart from numerous short stories he also wrote novels, tales, diaries, poems, radio plays and (beginning in the 1960s) children's books which he partly illustrated himself.
Life and work.
Schnurre grew up in Frankfurt before his father, a librarian, moved to Berlin in
and several anthologies. Many of her poetry books also feature her drawings and graphics. Her texts have been translated into Lithuanian, Italian, Spanish, French, Russian, Polish and American English. 
In 1972 Gustas co-founded an important artistic forum in West Berlin, the "Berliner Malerpoeten" (Berlin painter/poets), a group of artists who both wrote and illustrated their works. This group included Günter Grass, Günter Bruno Fuchs and Wolfdietrich Schnurre.
In 1997 Gustas received the Rahel Varnhagen Medal. She