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Roland Schimmelpfennig
Roland Schimmelpfennig, born in 1967, is Germany’s most celebrated contemporary playwright. He began his career as a journalist before studying to be a theatre director, and his plays have now been performed in more than forty countries. Schimmelpfennig is the recipient of the highest Playwriting Award in Germany, the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Prize, to honor his entire Oeuvre. One Clear, Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century is his first novel, shortlisted for the Leipzig Bookfair Prize in 2016. His play Winter Solstice is on tour across the U.K. in 2018. He lives in Berlin.
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A thrilling, filmic immersion into Berlin's legendary club scene - a skillfully told novel about the fragility of life. Berlin, Görlitzer Park: The body of…
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One Clear, Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century
"A highly original and often hypnotic work . . . exactly the type of book that readers in search of striking European voices should embrace"…