Background
He grew up in the village Bad Düben near Leipzig.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K95KWO4/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8433969803/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3486886711/?tag=2022091-20
( An edgy portrait of a successful wheeler-dealer on a do...)
An edgy portrait of a successful wheeler-dealer on a downward slide, and a peek beneath the smug surface of life in modern-day Berlin In the new unified Germany, Bernd Willenbrock is the perfect man for the season. A latecomer to the free-market feast, this former East German engineer has shown a downright Darwinian ability to adapt to the new environment. Proud owner of a thriving used-car dealership and an attractive second home, he is a generous husband, pleased by his role of provider. The business practically runs itself, leaving Willenbrock free to spice up his days with extramarital adventures. Prosperity seems guaranteed by a steady stream of cash-only clients from Eastern Europe, and plans for a glitzy new showroom are firmly under way. Willenbrock's self-satisfaction appears impregnable. Yet little by little, a series of ever-more menacing incidents-an attempted break-in, the theft of several cars, a vicious beating-erode his innermost certainties. No amount of locks and latches, it seems, can contain his growing obsession with external safety, relieve his suspicion of those closest to him, or stop the coming violence. In cool, detached prose, abundant with subtle ironies, Christoph Hein's portrait of a newly minted man of the West reveals a disturbing and all-too-familiar world where affluence comes at the price of lurking aggression, freedom is pervaded by insecurity, and contentment is undermined by mistrust.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805067310/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3518457292/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3351003870/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000H2MRSO/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3357009560/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3630869017/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/2864243733/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3898135039/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3407785623/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3518397966/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3630619827/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3518399799/?tag=2022091-20
He grew up in the village Bad Düben near Leipzig.
From 1967 to 1971 Hein studied philosophy in Leipzig and Berlin.
Being a clergyman"s son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule in the German Democratic Republic, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin. After his Abitur he jobbed inter alia as assembler, bookseller and assistant director Upon graduation he became dramatic adviser at the Volksbühne in Berlin, where he worked as a resident writer from 1974.
Since 1979 Hein has worked as a freelance writer
Hein first became known for his 1982 novella Der fremde Freund (The Distant Lover). From 1998 to 2000 Hein was the first president of the pan-German Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association-Centre.
Christoph Hein is not only one of the leading progressive voices in German literature, but was an instrumental force for freedom of speech in East Germany during the waning years of its Communist regime. A speech he gave at the November, 1987, East German Writers Congress has been credited with stimulating the end of censorship and paving the way to the peaceful revolution of 1989, according to Phillip S. McKnight in Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Hein was the first president of the pan-German PEN-Centre.
( An edgy portrait of a successful wheeler-dealer on a do...)
German Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Center; Sächsische Akademie der Künste. Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. Akademie der Künste Berlin.
