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Dietrich Schwanitz
German writer and literary scholar
Dietrich Schwanitz (April 23, 1940 – December 17, 2004) was a German writer and literary scholar.
He became known to larger audiences after publishing the bestselling campus novelDer Campus in 1995.
Life
Schwanitz's parents were teaching and living in the northern Ruhr area.
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In the late phase of World War II his mother send him with help of the Red Cross to Switzerland to escape the bombing raids in war torn Germany. In Switzerland Schwanitz stayed for six years with Mennonite mountain farmers rather isolated from society and without attending a school.
He returned to his parents in 1950 and school director who took a liking in him (seeing him as a modern "Kaspar Hauser") got him accepted directly into a gymnasium (highschool) and helped him to catch up with the curriculum.
Schwanitz graduated ultimately as best of his class and went on to pursue English studies, history and philosophy at universities in Münster, Lon