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born 12 August 1952 in Versmold |
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| 1981-1982 | Teacher of German at Salerno University |
| 1984 | PhD in German Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin |
| 1984-1985 | Teacher of German at Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa |
| 1985 | Leonce and Lena-Award, Darmstadt |
| 1988 | fellowship at Villa Massimo, Rome |
| 1985-1991 | research assistant for New German Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin |
| 1993 | Habilitation Literary Award of the City of Bremen for his book “Von Leib und Seele” |
| Since 1995 | Professor of German at the Literature Institute, University of Leipzig |
| 2000 |
poetics lectureship at Frankfurt University |
| 2003 |
Margarete-Schrader-Award for Literature, Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Award |
| 2005 | Hermann Hesse Prize for Literature |
| 2006 |
Critics Award for Literature; Eichendorff Literature Prize |
| 2007 |
Prize of Frankfurter Anthologie |
| lives in Berlin and Leipzig |
Last update June 2011
