Ingo Schulze

Ingo Schulze, born in Dresden in 1962, is a German writer. After studying classical philology in Jena, he worked as a theatre dramaturg and as a journalist and newspaper editor. Since 1995, he has published novels, short stories, essays and speeches. His best-known works include »33 Augenblicke des Glücks«, »Simple Storys«, »Neue Leben«, »Handy«, »Adam und Evelyn« and »Peter Holtz. Sein glückliches Leben erzählt von ihm selbst«. Schulze has received, among other distinctions, the Aspekte Literature Prize and the Alfred Döblin Fellowship (both 1995), the Joseph Breitbach Prize (2001), the Leipzig Book Fair Prize (2007) and the Rheingau Literature Prize (2017). His books have been translated into more than 30 languages.