(1944-04-08) 8 April 1944 (age 80) 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
Website
www.suhrkamp.de/autoren/autor.cfm?id=1845
Christoph Hein (German:[ˈkʁɪstɔfˈhaɪn]ⓘ; 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 a 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]
According to Hein, the acclaimed film drama The Lives of Others is loosely based on his life story. In a 2019 article, he claims that after attending the premiere screening, he asked author and director von Donnersmarck to have his name removed from the credits, because he felt that the movie was a "scary tale taking place in a fantasy land, comparable to Tolkien's Middle-earth," that "does not depict the 1980s in the GDR".[2]
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^"Christoph Hein zu "Das Leben der Anderen": Ein Melodram, Warum ich meinen Namen aus "Das Leben der Anderen" löschen ließ" [Why I had my name deleted from 'The Lives of Others']. Süddeutsche.de (in German). 24 January 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
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30 books, including works by Oskar Schlemmer, Golo Mann, Grete Weil, ChristophHein, Peter Handke, Werner Herzog, and Günter Grass. She has received several...
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