Hermann Kant

Hermann Kant (1926–2016) was a German writer. Born in Hamburg, he first trained as an electrician and, after serving in the Second World War, spent several years as a prisoner of war in Poland. From 1949 he attended the Workers’ and Peasants’ Faculty in Greifswald and studied German literature in Berlin from 1952 to 1956. He subsequently worked as a research assistant and editor before becoming a freelance writer in 1962. From 1978 to 1989, Kant was president of the Writers’ Association of the GDR. His best-known novels include The Hall (1965), The Imprint (1972), The Stay (1977), Kormoran (1994), Okarina (2002), Kino (2005), and Kennung (2010).