What is Erich Loest?
[[File:ErichLoestinHH02.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Loest in April 2008]] '''Erich Loest''' (24 February 1926 – 12 September 2013) was a [[Germany|German]] writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms '''Hans Walldorf''', '''Bernd Diksen''', and '''Waldemar Naß'''. From 1965 to 1975, he wrote eleven novels and 30 short stories, some under pseudonyms. In 1979 he was ostracized from [[East Germany]] and did not return until after the fall of the [[Berlin Wall]] in 1990.<ref name=Death/> Loest was born on 24 February 1926 in [[Mittweida]], [[Saxony]].<ref name=Death>{{cite web |url=http://www.focus.de/kultur/buecher/ostdeutscher-schriftsteller-autor-erich-loest-ist-tot-_aid_1099584.html |title=Chronist der deutschen Geschichte tot: Autor Erich Loest stürzt sich aus dem Fenster |publisher=Focus.de |date= |accessdate=2013-09-12 |archive-date=2013-09-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921111951/http://www.focus.de/kultur/buecher/ostdeutscher-schriftsteller-autor-erich-loest-ist-tot-_aid_1099584.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> In his later years, Loest became seriously ill and announced at an [[Academy of Arts, Berlin|Academy of Arts]] ceremony in 2010 that he did not have the strength to write another novel.<ref name=Death/> On the morning of 12 September 2013, he committed suicide by falling from a second-floor hospital window in [[Leipzig]], Saxony. He was 87 years old.<ref name=Death/> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commonscat-inline}} *{{IMDb name|0226710}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Loest, Erich}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2013 deaths]] [[Category:Writers who committed suicide]] [[Category:Writers from Saxony]]