Christoph Hein(I)
- Writer
- Actor
Began his professional career with Heiner Müller at the East-Berlin
Volksbühne, where he worked as a writer and director. He studied
philosophy and logic in Leipzig and Berlin and turned to novel writing
in the later seventies. With Christa Wolf and Stefan Heym,he became one
of the leading writers in the German Democratic Republic. He received
the Heinrich Mann Preis of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1982.
