The city sits at the intersection of the Via Regia and the Via Imperii, two important medieval trade routes. Leipzig has been a trade city since at least the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The name of the city as well as the names of many of its boroughs are of Slavic origin. Leipzig is located about 160 kilometres (100 mi) southwest of Berlin in the Leipzig Bay, which constitutes the southernmost part of the North German Plain, at the confluence of the White Elster River (progression: Saale→ Elbe→ North Sea) and two of its tributaries: the Pleiße and the Parthe. Between the two cities (in Schkeuditz) lies Leipzig/Halle Airport. Together with Halle (Saale), the largest city of the neighbouring state of Saxony-Anhalt, the city forms the polycentric Leipzig-Halle Conurbation. With a population of 605,407 inhabitants as of 2021 (1.1 million residents in the larger urban zone), it surpasses the Saxon capital of Dresden, and is Germany's eighth most populous city as well as the second most populous city in the area of former East Germany after ( East) Berlin. Die fünf Leben des Dr.Leipzig ( / ˈ l aɪ p s ɪ ɡ, ˈ l aɪ p( t) s ɪ x/, German: ( listen) Upper Saxon: Leibz'sch) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony.Die Suche oder Die Abenteuer des Uwe Reuss, Berlin 1981.Tod des Chefs oder Die Liebe zur Opposition, Berlin 1975.Aufstand des Sisyphos, Berlin 1969 (together with Jürgen Hell).Fremder im Paradies, Halle (Saale) 1966 (republished 1971 within Welt der Abenteuer).Vampire, Tyrannen, Rebellen, Berlin 1963 (together with Günter Schumacher).Die Piratenchronik, Berlin 1961 (republished in 1967 as Augen am Himmel: Eine Piratenchronik (Eyes in the sky)).Entscheidung an der Weichsel, Berlin 1960.Der Traum des Hauptmann Loy, Berlin 1956.Unternehmen "Thunderstorm", Berlin 1954.Mit Kräuterschnaps und Gottvertrauen, Berlin 1953.Schreyer died on 14 November 2017 at the age of 89. and since German reunification in 1990 he was a member of the German authors guild. Since 1952,he was a member of the East German authors guild, since 1974 a member of P.E.N. In 1956, Schreyer was awarded the Heinrich-Mann-Preis. Having sold more than five million copies, Schreyer is considered one of the most successful East German authors.
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Other works are crime stories, a science-fiction story, film scripts, TV and radio drama. Most successful were the stories set in Central America and the Caribbean, in which he skillfully mixed fiction and documentary. Schreyer was the author of numerous novels, which are mainly considered entertainment, containing some criticism of society. Until 1972 Schreyer lived in Magdeburg since then he lived in Ahrenshoop on the coast of the Baltic Sea. Since 1958, the GDR's Staatssicherheitsdienst (Stasi) kept him under special surveillance. He travelled several times to the Caribbean and to the United States. Since the publication of his first crime novel, Großgarage Südwest, he worked as a freelance author. From 1950 to 1952, he was the manager of a pharmaceutical company in the German Democratic Republic. From 1947 until 1949 he was a chemists' apprentice, working in that profession until 1950. He became a POW and was released by the Americans in 1946. On leaving secondary school he was conscripted as a Flakhelfer before, in April 1944, he joined the Nazi Party and served in the Wehrmacht. Wolfgang Schreyer was born the son of a pharmacist.