Background
Egon Wolff was born on April 13, 1926 in Santiago, Chile, into a middle-class family of German immigrants, to parents who espoused traditional family values and encouraged traditional work ethics. During his childhood Wolff suffered periods of ill health and turned to reading.
Education
Wolff studied and graduated in chemical engineering from the Catholic University of Santiago and subsequently studied performing arts at Yale University in the United States.
Career
At the age of 16 Wolff produced his first novel, "El Ocaso." His career begins to take form within the Theatre Actor Studio of the Catholic University theatre; he begins to develop a career with a more technical and artistic rigor which – unlike previous commercial theatre – led as much to the production of theatre as it did to the creation of new theatre groups.
Egon was a professor of the Theatre School of the Catholic University of Chile from 1979. He earned the Municipal Theatre Prize a number of times. In 1983 he entered as a principal member of the Chilean Academy of Language. The work of Egon Wolff has been produced in 29 countries and translated into 19 different languages.
Connections
It is known that Wolff was married, and after the death of his wife in an automobile accident in 1995 Wolff stopped working for about five years.