German pianist

Dieter Zechlin

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German pianist

Awards Received

National Prize of East Germany

Patriotic Order of Merit in silver

Johannes-R.-Becher-Medaille

Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau

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Member of, past and present

Academy of Arts of the GDR

Dieter Zechlin

Dieter Zechlin (30 October 1926 – 16 March 2012) was a German pianist. He was one of East Germany's most prominent pianists throughout the 1950-80s. In 1959 he received the Art Prize of the GDR and in 1961 the National Prize of the GDR.

Zechlin was born in Goslar. He was married to the composer Ruth Zechlin, and was later married to the pianist, Susanne Grützmann. He died, aged 85, in Potsdam.