Christoph Hein
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| Born |
8 April 1944 Heinzendorf, Germany now Jasienica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland |
| Occupation | Novelist, translator, Essayist |
| Nationality | German |
| Period | 1980–present |
| Notable awards |
Heinrich Mann Prize 1982 Erich Fried Prize 1990 Solothurner Literaturpreis 2000 Austrian State Prize for European Literature 2002 |
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Christoph Hein (born 8 April 1944) is a German author and translator. He grew up in the village Bad Düben near Leipzig. Being a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule in the GDR, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin.[1] After his Abitur he jobbed inter alia as assembler, bookseller and assistant director.[1] From 1967 to 1971 Hein studied philosophy in Leipzig and Berlin. Upon graduation he became dramatic adviser at the Volksbühne in Berlin, where he worked as a resident writer from 1974.[1] Since 1979 Hein has worked as a freelance writer.
Hein first became known for his 1982 novella Der fremde Freund (The Distant Lover). From 1998 to 2000 Hein was the first president of the pan-German PEN-Centre.[1]
Works
- Die Witwe des Maurers (1980)
- Frank, eine Kindheit mit Vätern (narrative, 1980)
- Einladung zum Lever Bourgeois (narratives, 1980)
- Cromwell und andere Stücke (plays, 1981)
- Der fremde Freund (novella, 1982, in Western Germany: Drachenblut, English translation The Distant Lover)
- Die wahre Geschichte des Ah Q (play, 1982)
- Das Wildpferd unterm Kachelofen (children's book, 1984)
- Horns Ende (novel, 1985)
- Schlötel oder Was solls (play, 1986)
- Öffentlich arbeiten (essays and interviews, 1987)
- Passage - ein Kammerspiel in drei Akten (play, 1987)
- Die Ritter der Tafelrunde (play, 1989)
- Der Tangospieler (narrative, 1989, English translation The Tango Player)
- Als Kind habe ich Stalin gesehen (essays and speeches, 1990)
- Das Napoleon-Spiel (novel, 1993)
- Exekution eines Kalbes und andere Erzählungen (narratives, 1994)
- Randow - eine Komödie (play, 1994)
- Von allem Anfang an (autobiography, 1997)
- Willenbrock (novel, 2000, made into a movie in 2005, English translation Willenbrock)
- Mama ist gegangen (children's novel, 2003)
- Landnahme (novel, 2004, English translation "Settlement" to be published November 2008)
- In seiner frühen Kindheit ein Garten (novel, 2005)
- Frau Paula Trousseau (novel 2007)
- Über die Schädlichkeit des Tabaks. Rede an die Abiturienten des Jahrgangs 2009
References
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