Federal Republic of Germany, Kulturpreis deutscher Freimaurer and Honorary doctorate Technische Universität Dresden 1995 Honorary citizenship of the city of Greiz and Culture award of the district of Passau 1997 1999 Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis 2000 Christian Ferber-Ehrengabe der Deutschen Schillerstiftung 2001 and Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art 2002 2003 Ján Smrek Prize and honorary citizenship of the city of Oelsnitz, Erzgebirge 2004 STAB-Preis der Stiftung für Abendländische Besinnung and Czech translation prize Premia Bohemica 2006 Guest of Honor of the Heinrich-Heine-Haus Lüneburg 2008 Order of Merit of the Free State of Thuringia 2009 and Thüringer Literaturpreis 2013 Robert Schuman Medal, EPP Group 2013 America Award for a lifetime contribution to international writing British/American editions The Lovely Years In Time of Need: A Conversation about Poetry, Resistance & Exile (with Mireille Gansel) ''Zimmerlautstarke With the Volume Down Low (Swamp Press, 1981) References External links Tabellarische Kurzbiografie zu Reiner Kunze (bis 1999) 1933 births Living people People from Erzgebirgskreis Socialist Unity Party of Germany members Dissidents East German writers Writers from Saxony Translators from Czech Translators to German German poets 20th-century German translators German male poets German-language poets Leipzig University alumni Georg Büchner Prize winners Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony