Born in 1961 in Munich
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| University studies in history and German area studies in Tübingen, Vienna and Berlin | ||
| seit 1990 | Articles, profiles and columns for Die Zeit, the magazine supplement of the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Frankfurter Rundschau and the Züricher Tagesanzeiger | |
| 1993 | Walter Serner Prize for detective novels | |
| 1994 | Ph.D.; research associate at the Free University of Berlin | |
| 1998/1999 | Bursary of the German Literature Fund / German Federal Cultural Foundation | |
| seit 2000 | Free-lance writer |
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| 2005/2006 | Bursary of the German Literature Fund / German Federal Cultural Foundation, Darmstadt | |
| 2007 | Bursary of the Berlin Senate | |
| Alfred Döblin Prize | Michael Kumpfmüller lives in Berlin |
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