Adolf Endler

Adolf Endler (20 September 1930 – 2 August 2009) was a lyricist, poet, essayist, and prose author who played a central role in subcultural activities that opposed the model of socialist realism in the German Democratic Republic, up until the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in the early 1990s. Endler has became recognized as a leading figure of the oppositional literary scene at Prenzlauer Berg, in the eastern part of Berlin. In 2005, he became a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (in English German Academy for Language and Literature) in Darmstadt.

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