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Hans Leip (22 September 1893 – 6 June 1983) was a German soldier, novelist, poet and playwright, best remembered as the lyricist of Lili Marleen. Leip was the son of a former sailor and harbour-worker at the port of Hamburg. He was educated there, and in 1914 became a teacher in the Hamburg suburb of Rothenburgsort. In 1915 he was called up by the German Army and after training in Berlin served on the Eastern Front and in the Carpathians.... [more on Wikipedia]