Max von der Grün
von der Grün, Max
May 25, 1926 – April 7, 2005 (aged 78)
Birth place: Bayreuth, Upper Franconia, Free State of Bavaria, Germany
Born and raised in Bavaria he went to the Ruhr area for work in the mining industry after getting unemployed.
He began to write earnestly in the mid-1950s and raised to the most prominent German author of workers' fiction. He died in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.