Max Walter Schulz

Max Walter Schulz (31 October 1921 – 15 November 1991) was an East German author and part of that country's literary establishment.

Life Max Walter Schulz was born in Scheibenberg, a small town in the Erzgebirge mining district in the mountains south of Chemnitz. His father was an office worker. He attended primary school and enrolled at secondary school, but appears to have left before completing the course. He remained in the position for nearly twenty years, skilfully charting for the institute a sometimes challenging course between scholarly integrity and the shifting political expectations of party officialdom.

In 1983, Schulz took a new job as editor in chief of the prestigious fortnightly literary journal, Sinn und Form, taking over from Paul Wiens. He retired in 1990. A particular case in point was "Wir sind nicht Staub im Wind" (We are not dust in the wind) which appeared in 1962, intended at the time as the first part of a planned multi-volume cycle.

By the end of the 1960s Schulz had established his credentials with readers as a novelist, with academics as a literary mentor and with the party, to the point at which his critical and "semi-official" pronouncements about the new generation of writers became important for the subsequent development of East German literature. 1964 National Prize 1969 "Professor" title 1978 Patriotic Order of Merit 1980 National Prize 1986 Patriotic Order of Merit Honor Clasp 1987 Doctor honoris causa, University of Leipzig

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