Fiction

Christoph Hein

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Christoph Hein, born 1944 in Lower Silesia, grew up after the war in Bad Düben near Leipzig. He studied Philosophy and Logic in Berlin and Leipzig from 1967-1971. After completing his studies he worked as a dramaturge and playwright at the Volksbühne in East Berlin. He has been a freelance writer of fiction and of stage and radio plays since 1979.

(Updated: 2020)

Awards

  • 2017  Grimmelshausen Prize
  • 2013  Stefan Heym Prize
  • 2012  Uwe Johnson Prize
  • 2011  Gerty Spies Literature Prize
  • 2010  Eichendorff Literature Prize
  • 2008  Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize
  • 2004  Schiller Memorial Award of Baden-Württemberg
  • 2002  Austrian State Prize for European Literature
  • 2000  Solothurn Literature Prize
  • 1998  Peter Weiss Prize of the City of Bochum
  • 1994  Grand Federal Cross of Merit
  • 1990  Erich Fried Prize (Vienna)
  • 1983  German Critics Prize
  • 1982 Heinrich Mann Prize

More Publications

Verwirrnis
Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2018.
                 
Trutz
Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2017.
 
Weiskerns Nachlass
Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2011.
 
Frau Paula Trousseau.
Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007
 
In seiner frühen Kindheit ein Garten
Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005
 
Landnahme
Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 2004.
 
Willenbrock
Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 2000.
 
Von allem Anfang an
Autobiography. Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 1997
 
Das Napoleon-Spiel
Novel. Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 1993
 
Der Tangospieler
Story. Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 1989
 
Horns Ende
Novel. Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 1985.
 
Der fremde Freund.
Novella. Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 1982

Featured Books

Book cover Portrait of a Son with Father

Glückskind mit Vater
[Portrait of a Son with Father]

Suhrkamp Verlag

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