Page "Uwe Johnson" Paragraph 8

On January 1, 1967 protesters from Johnson's own West Berlin apartment building founded Kommune 1.

He first learned about it by reading it in the newspaper.

Returning to West Berlin in 1969, he became a member of the West German PEN Center and of the Akademie der Künste ( Academy of the Arts ).

In 1970, he published the first volume of his Jahrestage ( Anniversaries ).

Two more volumes were to follow in the next three years, but the fourth volume would not appear until 1983.