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Peter-Paul Zahl (German writer and poet)

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Zahl, Peter-Paul
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Date of birth
1944-03-14
Place of birth
Freiburg im Breisgau
Date of death
2011-01-24
Place of death
Port Antonio

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Peter-Paul Zahl (March 14, 1944 in Freiburg im Breisgau - January 24, 2011 in Port Antonio, Jamaica) was a German-born anarchist-libertarian writer and director. He last held dual German-Jamaican citizenship.

His extensive work, which includes poetry, prose, and plays, is marked by the politicization of literature in West German society as a result of the 1968 movement. He was honored in 1980 for the picaresque novel Die Glücklichen and in 1995 for the crime novel Der schöne Mann.

In the late 1960s, he became known in West Berlin as the printer of the underground magazine Agit 883 and as a publisher and author of subcultural writings from the radical leftist social environment, which brought him into the focus of law enforcement.

After critically wounding a police officer in a shootout while fleeing from police, he was imprisoned from 1972 to 1982. In 1976, the Düsseldorf District Court sentenced him to 15 years in prison for two counts of attempted murder. While in prison, Zahl intensified his literary work. He then became involved in cultural politics for the New Jewel Movement in Grenada and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. From 1985 he lived primarily in Jamaica.

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Goodreads Author ID
364813
ISNI
0000 0001 1878 4198
LibraryThing Author
zahlpeterpaul
MusicBrainz Artist ID
72599de0-e193-46e7-8843-88968f86dd6c
OpenLibrary Author ID
OL183383A
VIAF
79125534
Wikidata ID
Q2073478

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