Education
In the 1960s, he studied German, philosophy and sociology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.
In the 1960s, he studied German, philosophy and sociology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.
He worked as a journalist until 1965. During this time, he worked, inter alia, for the satirical magazine Pardon and co-edited the magazine Lesezeichen. Since 1970 he has been working as a freelance author
After living in Heidelberg for a long time, Genazino moved to Frankfurt in 2004.
That same year he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize, the most prestigious award for German literature. In Translation “.
Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic. Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. Akademie der Künste Berlin]
In 1990 he became a member of the Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt.