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Christoph Hein (German: [ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈhaɪn] ⓘ; 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.
Christoph Hein ist ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Übersetzer und Essayist.
German playwright, essayist, short story writer, children's writer, and novelist. The following entry presents an overview of Hein's career through 2000. Best known for the...
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.
Christoph Hein. Biography. Christoph Hein was born in 1944 in Heinzendorf in Silesia (now Witoszyce in Poland), the son of a parson. At the end of the war the family moved to Bad Düben, near Leipzig, where Hein grew up. In 1958 he went to school in West Berlin but later returned home.
Christoph Hein. Writer: Der Tangospieler. Began his professional career with Heiner Müller at the East-Berlin Volksbühne, where he worked as a writer and director. He studied philosophy and logic in Leipzig and Berlin and turned to novel writing in the later seventies.
Unlike many writers from the former GDR, Christoph Hein's reputation and standing - and his creativity - have remained intact despite the demise of the GDR in 1989-90. Christoph Hein in Perspective brings together essays by both established and... See More.
