Dieter Kühn, born 1935 in Cologne, died in Brühl in 2015. His biographies, novels, stories, audio plays and critically acclaimed translations from Middle High German (the Medieval Quartet ) earned him many awards, including the Herman Hesse Prize, the High Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Arts, and most recently the Carl Zuckmayer Medal. His works range from vast biographies (of Clara Schumann, Maria Sibylla Merian, Gertrud Kolmar, and perhaps most famously Oswald von Wolkenstein) and novels ( Geheimagent Marlowe ) to historical-biographical studies ( Schillers Schreibtisch in Buchenwald ) and volumes of stories ( Ich war Hitlers Schutzengel ). He most recently published two autobiographical volumes, Das magische Auge and Die siebte Woge .
