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Born on 1st September 1967 in Bad Nauheim |
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| 1995 | |
Graduates in German, Latin Philology and Philosophy from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
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| 2000 |
Ernst Willner Prize; Juergen Ponto Literary Förderpreis, a prize intended to promote and encourage the work of a talented young writer; German TV channel ZDF’s aspekte magazine’s Literature Prize | |
| 2001 |
Wetterau Literature Prize | |
| 2002 |
Doctorate in poetics and rhetoric in the work of Thomas Bernhard | |
| 2003 | Clemens Brentano Prize | |
| 2004 | Candide Prize | |
| 2006 |
Villa Massimo scholarship and Frankfurt lectureship in poetics | |
| 2007 |
Year’s scholarship from the Deutscher Literaturfonds (an institution based in Darmstadt which supports contemporary German language literature)
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Lives in Klausen, South Tirol and Italy |
