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born 5 July 1955 in Zwettl (Lower Austria) |
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| 1973 - 1980 | studies Philosophy, theatre studies and Germanic philology in Vienna |
| 1976 - 1992 | co-editor of the literary journal "Wespennest" |
| 1980 | PhD for his thesis "Die Ästhetik des Novalis" |
| 1989 - 1990 | writer-in-residence and visiting professor at Oberlin College and Bowling Green State University, Ohio |
| 1994 | scholarship from the Deutscher Literaturfonds; literature scholarship from the federal state of Lower Austria |
| since 1996 | Professor of Literature and Aesthetics at the University of Leipzig |
| 2000 |
Vienna Literature Prize |
| since 2001 | managing director of the most influential creative writing school in the German-speaking world Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig (in turn with other professors) |
| 2006 | visiting professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago |
| 2010 |
Writer-in-Residence-Prize of the City of Mainz |
| lives in Leipzig |
Last update June 2011
