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born 15 January 1962 in Dresden |
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| 1983 – 1988 | studies Philology, German and Art History in Jena |
| 1988 - 1990 | dramatic adviser at the Landestheater Altenburg |
| 1988 - 1993 | dramaturge at Altenburg theatre founds the Altenburg Weekly (Altenburger Wochenblatt) |
| 1993 | works as free-lance writer lives in St. Petersburg and supports a publication similar to the Altenburg Weekly |
| 1995 | Alfred Döblin Award Ernst-Willner Award of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition aspekte Literary Award |
| 1998 | Johannes-Bobrowski-Medal of the Berlin Literary Award |
| 2001 | Joseph-Breitbach Award |
| since 2006 |
director of the literature department at Akademie der Künste Berlin |
| 2006 | Peter-Weiss-Prize fellowships of the College of Arts in Berlin and German College of Literature and Poetry in Darmstadt |
| 2007 | receives scholarship of the Villa Massimo in Rom, the Thuringian Literary Prize, the Leipzig Book Fair Award and fellowship of the Saxon Academy of the Arts |
| 2008 | Premio Grinzane Cavour Prize Samuel-Bogumil-Linde-Prize finalist for German Book Prize with "Adam und Evelyn" |
| 2011 |
writer-in-residence-Prize of the city of Mainz |
| lives in Berlin |
Last update June 2011
