in 1950. In 1953, he won the Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden for his radio play Die Andere und ich (The Other and I). Eich also won the Georg-Büchner-Preis in 1959 and the Schiller Memorial Prize in 1968. Notes External links Valuable Nail: Selected Poems, trans. Stuart Friebert, David Walker, and David Young, Oberlin College Press site for Günter Eich Axel Vieregg: 'The Spanner in the Works' (Review of G. Eich: Angina Days, Princeton 2010), The Berlin Review of Books, 30 March 2011 1907 births 1972 deaths People from Märkisch-Oderland People from the Province of Brandenburg German lyricists German radio writers Writers from Brandenburg Trümmerliteratur Schiller Memorial Prize winners Georg Büchner Prize winners 20th-century German poets German male poets 20th-century German dramatists and playwrights German male dramatists and playwrights German-language poets 20th-century German male writers