Walter Jens (8 March 1923 – 9 June 2013) was a German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor and writer.He was born in Hamburg. In the early 1940s, Jens joined the NSDAP. He denied having applied for membership actively and claims that he had become a member automatically because he was a member of the Hitler Youth and that he never received a membership card. During World War II, he earned a doctorate in Freiburg with a work about Sophocles' tragedy and habilitated at age 26 with the work Tacitus und die Freiheit (Tacitus and Freedom) at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. Jens was a member of the Turnerschaft Akademischer Turnbund.From 1950 on, Jens was a member of the Group 47. That year, he had his breakthrough with the novel Nein. Die Welt der Angeklagten. One distinguishing characteristic of his literary work is that he interprets current events by looking back at the past.From 1965 to 1988, Jens held the chair for General Rhetoric at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, which was created in order to keep him at the university. Under the pseudonym Momos, he wrote television reviews for Die Zeit. From 1976 to 1982, he was president of the International PEN center in Germany. From 1989 to 1997, he was president of the Akademie der Künste, and afterwards he was the honorary president. From 1990 to 1995, he was chairman of the Martin-Niemöller-Foundation.Jens suffered from dementia, which began to manifest in 2004. He died in 2013 in Tübingen.
Worked as television critic for the weekly newspaper "Die Zeit" under the pseudonym "Momos".
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Joining the literary association "Group 47" in 1950, he had his breakthrough with the novel "Nein. Die Welt der Angeklagten." (No. The world of the defendants.) in the same year.
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President of the International PEN Center in Germany from 1976 to 1982 and the Academy of Arts in Berlin from 1989 to 1997.
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German literature historian, critic, philologist, university professor and writer.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Frau Jenny Treibel
1982
TV Movie
Der tödliche Schlag
1975
TV Movie teleplay
Az összeesküvés
1973
TV Movie
Die Verschwörung
1969
TV Movie
Antigone
1968
TV Movie translation
Auf der Lesebühne der Literarischen Illustrierten
1965-1968
TV Series 4 episodes
Die rote Rosa
1966
TV Movie
A vak
1962
TV Movie
Vergessene Gesichter
1959
TV Movie screenplay
Vergessene Gesichter
1953
TV Movie screenplay
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Die Unbezähmbare Leni Peickert
1970
TV Movie
Diskutierender
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Die große Depression
2005
Himself
Sabine Christiansen
2001
TV Series
Hitler: A Profile
1995
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Das Wunder von Bern: Deutschland und die Fußball-WM 1954