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Born on 6th July 1948 in Hamburg |
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Childhood spent in the Black Forest region | |
| 1968 - 1970 | 1968-1970 Military service in Bodensee, followed by a year in the USA | |
| 1972 - 1979 |
1968-1970 Military service in Bodensee, followed by a year in the USA
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| 1981 - 1983 |
1981-1983 Travels through Africa and Asia, reporting for the magazine TransAtlantik
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| 1984 |
Wins annual art prize of the Frankfurter Verein für Künstlerhilfe, an organization supporting the development of newcomers in the Arts
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| 1986 - 1987 |
Travels in the Philippines, witnesses the civil war
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| 1989 | Villa Massimo, Rome | |
| 1991 |
Establishes the Bettina von Armin Prize for short prose with Ulrike Bauer; travels in the USA and North Africa
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| 1993 |
Stay in Somalia during the civil war
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| 1996 |
Works on numerous screenplay; stays in Moscow, Lisbon and Buenos Aires
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| 1997 | TV projects (with Ulrike Bauer), screenplays for police dramas on TV | |
| 1999 |
Television screenplay work
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| 2000 |
Bavarian Film Awards 1999 Screenplay Prize
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| 2001 |
Rheingau Literature Prize | |
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2002 2008 |
Critics’ Prize of the Association of German Critics; LiteraTour Nord Prize The federal state of Rheinland-Pfalz’s Carl Zuckmayer Medal for services to the German language
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Lives and works in Frankfurt am Main and on Lake Garda, Italy |
