Christoph Hein

Began his professional career with Heiner Müller at the East-Berlin Volksbühne, where he worked as a writer and director. He studied philosophy and logic in Leipzig and Berlin and turned to novel writing in the later seventies. With Christa Wolf and Stefan Heym,he became one of the leading writers in the German Democratic Republic. He received the Heinrich Mann Preis of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1982.