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Reiner Zimnik
Reiner Zimnik (1930 - 2021) was born in Bytom, grew up in Lower Bavaria, and drew from the age of four. After an apprenticeship as a cabinet-maker and studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich he continued to live in the city as a poet, illustrator and painter. Reiner Zimnik was awarded a number of prizes (including the ›Eichendorff Prize‹, ›Munich Art Prize for Graphic Design‹ and a scholarship at the Villa-Massimo).
Awards
- Bayerischer Poetentaler der Münchner Turmschreiber, 1994
- Förderpreis Literatur, Literaturpreis der Stadt München, 1958
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»Zimnik is a poet, a headstrong, meditative poet.«
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»An illustrator who tells tales, and a teller of tales who draws.«
Basler Zeitung
»Zimnik is a poet, a headstrong, meditative poet.«
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»An illustrator who tells tales, and a teller of tales who draws.«
Basler Zeitung