Background
Werner Lindemann was born into a family of farm workers. He grew up in Alternate-Jeßnitz Gutsdorf near Wolfen in Saxony-Anhalt.
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Werner Lindemann
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In 1941, aged 15, he was apprenticed to a farmer. After the end of World World War II he studied natural sciences at Halle. Between 1955 and 1957 he studied at the Johannes R. Becher Institute of Literature at Leipzig.
Career
Werner is also recognized as the father of Till Lindemann, the lead vocalist in the popular German heavy metal band Rammstein. Between 1943 and 1945, he served in the German Army. In 1949, he began to teach agriculture-related subjects at a vocational school.
There he worked as editor of the student magazine Forum, became director of the city House of Culture, and from 1959 worked as a freelance writer
He co-founded the Künstlerkolonie Drispeth ("Drispeth Artist"s Colony"), where he lived for over 20 years, along with Joachim Seyppel, Joochen Laabs, and Gerhard and Christa Wolf. Lindemann wrote his first poems shortly after the war.
They were published in a 1959 book Stationen, which also included autobiographical material. These and other books were based on observations and memories of his youth.
On many occasions he gave talks in schools to bring poetry to children.
He was a frequent visitor to the Grundschule Elisabethwiese elementary school in Rostock. After his death the school changed its name to Werner-Lindemann-Grundschule on 7 October 1994. The ceremony was attended by his widow, journalist Gitta Lindemann.
Politics
He describes nature, family life in the countryside, and day-to-day life under the socialist regime. In 1985 the Academy of Arts in Berlin was awarded him the Alex-Wedding-Preis, for his merits in the field of socialist children"s literature.
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Germany East Germany