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Christoph Hein

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Born
April 07 1944
Christoph Hein is a German author and translator.

Growing up in Bad Düben near Leipzig as a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule in the communist East, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin. After jobbing as an assembler, bookseller and assistant director, he studied philosophy. Upon graduation he became dramatic adviser at the Volksbühne in Berlin, where he worked as a resident writer from 1974. Since 1979, he has worked as a freelance writer, becoming known for his 1982 novella Der fremde Freund .

Christoph Hein

3.5/5 ( ratings)
Born
April 07 1944
Christoph Hein is a German author and translator.

Growing up in Bad Düben near Leipzig as a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule in the communist East, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin. After jobbing as an assembler, bookseller and assistant director, he studied philosophy. Upon graduation he became dramatic adviser at the Volksbühne in Berlin, where he worked as a resident writer from 1974. Since 1979, he has worked as a freelance writer, becoming known for his 1982 novella Der fremde Freund .

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