Uwe Johnson

Uwe Johnson

Uwe Johnson (German pronunciation: [ˈuːvə ˈjoːnzɔn] ; 20 July 1934 – 22 February 1984) was a German writer, editor, and scholar. Such prominent writers and scholars as Günter Grass and Hans Mayer declared Johnson to be the most significant writer to emerge from East Germany. During the 1950s, he had troubles with the East German authorities, being treated as a "dissident" both for political reasons and for Modernist experiments in his works which made him opposed to the dominant doctrine of Socialist realism; after moving to West Berlin in 1959, he gained the label of "the author of the two Germanies", as, while criticizing the East Germany as the state which betrayed the Socialist ideals, he didn't regard the West Germany as a viable alternative and opposed the division of Germany in general. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Uwe Johnson has received more than 111,879 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Uwe Johnson is the 2,883rd most popular writer (down from 2,880th in 2019), the 627th most popular biography from Poland (down from 596th in 2019) and the 67th most popular Polish Writer.