Background
After her mother"s death, Hegemann moved in with her father.
Actor director screenwriter writer
After her mother"s death, Hegemann moved in with her father.
As a young writer her work was highly praised, but her first novel, Axolotl Roadkill, sparked a plagiarism controversy. The book has since been translated in various languages. She began writing and first gained attention with her blog.
On 6 December 2007, her play, Ariel 15 premiered in Berlin at Ballhaus Ost, directed by Sebastian Mauksch.
Hegemann called her play a literary fairy tale piece. Deutschland Radio adapted it as a radio drama in 2008.
That same year, a screenplay she wrote at 14 was developed. lieutenant was underwritten by the Federal Cultural Foundation.
The resulting film, Torpedo, a youth drama, premiered in 2008 at the Hof Film Festival and ran in German cinemas in summer 2009.
Hegemann credits the Jean-Luc Godard film Weekend as a major influence on her writing style. In 2009, Hegemann played a role in the episodic film Germany 09, by Nicolette Krebitz. Hegemann appeared in the segment "Die Unvollendete", where Ulrike Meinhof and Susan Sontag meet.
In 2013, her second novel Jage zwei Tiger was published.