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born 16 July 1944 in Bad Schwalbach died 17 July 1987 in Munich |
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| 1951-1964 | works for radio, TV, newspapers and magazines; publishes first poem, experiments with heroin |
| 1965-1967 | studies English and Ethnology; works in nursing homes and hospitals; travels to Greece, Turkey, Ireland; Lives in Tophane /Istanbul; becomes a drug addict |
| 1968-1972 | returns to Frankfurt; joins the Linkeck-Commune in Berlin; editor of the underground paper "Zoom" and "UFO"; publication of his first novel "Tophane"; manages to break the drug habit |
| 1973-1980 | lives and works Munich, United States and Spain, Belgium and Netherlands; joins the German Authors’ Society; writes screenplays, poems and short stories and a biography about Marlon Brando; translates biographies of James Dean and Joan Baez |
| 1981-1985 | moves to Berlin; editor and columnist for Tip Magazine; publication of the novel "Der Schneemann", collected stories and essays; marries Gabriele Osswald; moves to Munich |
| 1986-1987 | research about the drug trade in Thailand: Indonesia tour with the Achim Reichel band; writes a serialized crime novel for the magazine "Wiener"; fatal car accident in Munich |
