Background
Brussig was born in East Berlin.
Brussig was born in East Berlin.
In 1984 he finished school and training, and served in the East German National People"s Army (German: Nationale Volksarmee or NVA). In 1990 he studied sociology at the Free University of Berlin.
After attending the "Heinrich-Hertz" School, he went on to train as a builder. Brussig found it difficult to wield a weapon and had a hard time. He worked as a museum guard, cleaner and hotel porter among a variety of other odd jobs until the early 90s.
He changed universities 3 years later to study the art of film-making.
He graduated in the year 2000.