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Günter Kunert (born March 6, 1929) is a German writer, who left the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) to live in the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany).Kunert was born in Berlin. After attending a Volksschule, it was not possible for Kunert—due to the National Socialist race laws—to continue his high school education (his mother was Jewish). After World War II ended, Kunert studied in East Berlin's Academy of Applied Arts from 1946–49, but abandoned his studies.