Born on 29th July 1942 in Zehdenick
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| 1961 | |
University entrance diploma in Traunstein
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| 1976 |
Doctorate at the Free University of Berlin
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| 1977 |
History teacher, also working in film and television | |
| 1980 |
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for his then unpublished novel Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit (The Discovery of Slowness)
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| 1985 |
Hans-Fallada Prize of the town of Neumünster
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| 1986 |
Scholarship of the Berlin Senate
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| 1990 |
Guest lecturer for Poetics of Contemporary Literature at the University of Munich
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| 1992 |
'Writer in Residence' at Washington University, St. Louis, Mississippi
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| 1995 |
Ernst Hoferichter Prize
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| 2001 - 2002 |
Guest professor at the German Literary Institute in Leipzig
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| 2003 |
Jakob Wasserman Literature Prize of the town of Fürth
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| 2004 - 2005 |
Writer in Residence in Mainz
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Lives in Berlin
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