Biography

  born 30 November 1964 in Treiss/Giessen
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1984 - 1991 studies German and Philosophy in Frankfurt/Main
1990 Robert Walser Award 
1995 - 1999 jury member of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition, Klagenfurt; Rome-Award Villa Massimo
1999 co-editor of the literary online anthology "NULL" together with Jana Hensel
2002 scholarship Villa Aurora, Los Angeles
2005   Premio Grinzano Cavour  
2006 

finalist at German Book Price for "Woraus wir gemacht sind"

lives in Frankfurt

  

Last update June 2011
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