In this dystopia, the teenager Heinz grows up in the mountains amongst a small group of survivors after the decline of humanity. His futuristic fifth novel ✽ie Verteidigung des Paradieses«, which was also shortlisted for the German Book Prize, uses post-apocalyptic imagery. In his Leipzig Book Fair Prize-nominated fourth novel, ✽as Jahr, in dem ich aufhörte, mir Sorgen zu machen, und anfing zu träumen«, he tells the story of an insurance saleswoman who encounters a supposed revenant of her grandmother who runs an amusement park in Russia, blurring the lines between reality and fairground fantasy. The novel was shortlisted for the German Book Prize. The novel is a family saga that spans three generations while asking whether it is even possible to tell the true story of a family. He worked as a freelance journalist and published several short stories during his studies.Īfter the first broadcast of his debut radio play »Meine Tonbänder sind mein Widerstand« on Bayerischer Rundfunk in 2007, he published his acclaimed first novel »Wallner beginnt zu fliegen« the same year. He studied German, English, and American literature in Munich and Cincinnati and received his doctorate in 2006. The German writer, film director, and journalist Thomas von Steinaecker was born in Traunstein, Bavaria in 1977.
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