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Born December 15, 1962 in Dresden |
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| 1983 - 1988 | |
Majored in Classics at the University of Jena |
| 1988 - 1990 | Dramaturge at the Landestheater Altenburg | |
| 1990 - 1993 | Worked as a political journalist; founding of the Altenburger Wochenblatt | |
| 1993 | Begins working as a freelance writer; stay in St. Petersburg; helps in the setting up of a similar advertising journal | |
| 1995 | Promotion Prize of the Alfred Döblin Competition;
Ernst Willner Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition;
aspekte – Literature Prize
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| 1996 | Stay in New York | |
| 1998 | Johannes Bobrowski Medal of the Berlin Literature Prize | |
| 2001 | Joseph Breitbach Prize | |
| 2006 | Peter Weiss Prize | |
| since 2006 | Member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts and the German Academy of Language and Poetry | |
| 2007 | Leipzig Book Festival Prize | |
| 2008 | Samuel Bogumil Linde Award | |
| lives in Berlin |
Translation: Jonathan Uhlaner
