Reiner Stach, born 1951 in Rochlitz (Saxony), studied Philosophy, Literature and Mathematics at Frankfurt University, gaining a doctorate there with a thesis on Kafka, and then worked for several years as a editor for various publishers, including Fischer, Rowohlt and Metzler. He began working on his three-volume Kafka biography in 1996. Reiner Stach has lived in Berlin since 2009.
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(Updated: 2020)
