The article analyzes the specificity of the individual style of the famous German-speaking poet and writer Johannes Bobrowski. The author's multifaceted literary talent was vividly manifested in his original prose: genre originality, ‘non-frame’ compositional structure of short stories and novels; use of oral speech and careful selection of linguistic means; a conceptually new look at world events and Germany's tragic past; fiction and non-fiction, intertextual dialogue with German classics.