Johannes Kühn (writer)

Johannes Kühn (3 February 1934 – 3 October 2023) was a German writer and poet. BiographyBorn in Tholey on 3 February 1934, Kühn grew up in a family of miners. In 1948, he enrolled at the , but dropped out in 1953 without a diploma. He studied at Saarland University and the University of Freiburg as a guest student from 1956 to 1961. From 1963 to 1973, he worked for his brother's engineering company. During this time, he also wrote dramas, poems, and fairy tales, which failed to gain much attention at first.