Ingo Schulze is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 writer

Writer

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 born in Dresden

Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

 in former East Germany. He studied classical philology

Philology

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 at the University of Jena for five years, and, until the German reunification

German reunification

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, was an assistant director (dramatic arts advisor) at the State Theatre in Altenburg

Altenburg

Altenburg is a town in the German federal state of Thuringia, 45 km south of Leipzig. It is the capital of the Altenburger Land district.-Geography:...

 45 km south of Leipzig

Leipzig

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 for two years. After oversleeping the events of the night of November 9 1989, Schultze started a newspaper with friends. He was encouraged to write. Schultze spent six months in St Petersburg which became the basis for his debut collection of short stories 33 Moments of Happiness (1995). He has lived in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

 since the mid 1990s.

Schulze has won a number of awards for his novels and stories, which have been translated into twenty languages, among them into English by John E. Woods

John E. Woods

John E. Woods is a translator who specializes in translating German literature, since about 1978. His work includes much of the fictional prose of Arno Schmidt and the works of contemporary authors such as Ingo Schulze and Christoph Ransmayr...

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Publications

• 33 Augenblicke des Glücks, Berlin 1995 ("33 Moments of Happiness")
• Simple Storys, Berlin 1998 [German text under an English heading]
• Der Brief meiner Wirtin, Ludwigsburg 2000
• Von Nasen, Faxen und Ariadnefäden, Berlin 2000
• Mr. Neitherkorn und das Schicksal, Berlin 2001
• Würde ich nicht lesen, würde ich auch nicht schreiben, Lichtenfels 2002
• Neue Leben, Berlin 2005
• Handy. Dreizehn Storys in alter Manier, Berlin 2007
• Adam und Evelyn, Berlin 2008.
• "One More Story" 2010

External links

• German audio samples of "Neue Leben" and "Handy"