Uwe Friesel
Uwe Friesel, after years in Italy and Sweden today lives in Germany. Poet, author and translator. 1991 - 1994 first President of the united German Writers Association after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Co-founder of the international UNESCO-Lit-Centers in Visby and Rhodes. Rewards: Villa Massimo in Rome, Writer in residence in Hamburg and Berlin. German Literature Fonds. Member of PEN.

