Peter Rühmkorf

Peter Rühmkorf (Dortmund, 25 October 1929 - Roseburg, Schleswig-Holstein, 8 June 2008) was a German writer who significantly influenced German post-war literature.

Rühmkorf's literary career started in 1952 in Hamburg with the magazine "Zwischen den Kriegen" ("Between the Wars"), which the poet and essayist Werner Riegel and he edited and mainly wrote, until Riegel's death in 1956. Both of them belonged to the initiators of the "Studentenkurier", an influential monthly for young German intellectuals and students.

Rühmkorf was awarded every important German award, including the Georg Büchner Prize, the Heinrich Heine Prize and the Erich Kästner Prize. Rühmkorf was also among the four who were ever awarded with the Arno Schmidt Prize. His pseudonyms were Leo Doletzki, Leslie Maier, Johannes Fontara, Lyng, John Frieder, Hans-Werner Weber, Harry Flieder, and Hans Hingst.