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Born on 30 March 1940 in Hamburg |
| © Peter Procházka |  |
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| Furrier apprenticeship in Hamburg | ||
| 1961 - 1963 | Attends the Braunschweig college | |
| 1963 | |
Abitur (school leaving exams) |
| Studied German in Munich and Paris | ||
| 1967/1968 | Member of the German socialist student organisation(SDS) | |
| 1971 | Obtains doctorate in philosophy | |
| 1972 - 1982 | Co-editor of Autoren-Edition | |
| 1981 - 1983 | Lived in Rome | |
| 1989/2002 | Literature prize of the city of Munich | |
| 1990 | German Youth Literature Prize | |
| 2001 | Tukan-Prize; Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Arts | |
| 2002/2003 | City writer of Bergen | |
| 2003 | Schubart Literature Prize; Erik-Reger Prize | |
| 2005 | Bamberg Poetics lectureship | |
| 2006 | Jakob-Wassermann- Prize; Premio Napoli for Rot | |
| 2009 | Heinrich Böll Prize |
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| Lives in Munich and Berlin |
