Education
Born in Offenbach, Hessen, Dorn was initially trained as a singer, and later studied philosophy and theatrical sciences in Frankfurt and Berlin. She graduated (Magistra) in philosophy with a work on self-deception.
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Born in Offenbach, Hessen, Dorn was initially trained as a singer, and later studied philosophy and theatrical sciences in Frankfurt and Berlin. She graduated (Magistra) in philosophy with a work on self-deception.
She lives and works in Berlin. She worked as scientific assistant at the Free University of Berlin, then as dramaturge and writer at the Staatstheater Hannover. Thea Dorn"s pseudonym alludes to Theodor Adorno, whose works she read and found hard to understand.
(See the interview on Adorno) After receiving her M. A. in philosophy, she became a freelance writer
The same year she wrote the theatrical piece Marleni, a staged meeting of Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl. This drama premiered on January 15, 2000 in Hamburg at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus.
In 2003 she wrote the script to the episode Der schwarze Troll (lit The black troll) of the German television series Tatort. The next year, with the book Die Brut, she left the genre of crime fiction and concentrated on characterisations of the milieu.
{WP:Oregon}? Beginning with 2003 together with Dirk Schümer she was host of the television show Schümer und Dorn - Der Büchertalk, broadcast by Südwest-Rundfunk.
Since 2004 she hosts the television show Literatur im Foyer, presenting new books and talking to writers.