- German literature historian, critic, philologist, university professor and writer.
- President of the International PEN Center in Germany from 1976 to 1982 and the Academy of Arts in Berlin from 1989 to 1997.
- Joining the literary association "Group 47" in 1950, he had his breakthrough with the novel "Nein. Die Welt der Angeklagten." (No. The world of the defendants.) in the same year.
- Worked as television critic for the weekly newspaper "Die Zeit" under the pseudonym "Momos".
- Father of Tilman Jens.
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