EDUCATION
1950-63 elementary and secondary school in Berlin
1964-65 odd jobs
1965-70 student of philosophy at Universities of Leipzig and (East) Berlin
1971-75 assistant in Institute of Philosophy at Academy of Sciences, (East) Berlin
1975 Ph.D., dissertation on the philosophy of Hegel, "The Science of Logic and the Social-historical
Background of its Categorical Development"
1975-81 staff researcher, Academy of Sciences, (East) Berlin
WORK EXPERIENCE
1981-90 free-lance writer
1987 Visiting professor of philosophy and literature at State University of New York, Buffalo, New York (USA)
1991 Visiting professor of literature, Universidad de Concepción, and Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
1992 Journalist at women's media agency
1997 Free-lance journalist for Der Tagesspiegel,
Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Deutschland Radio Berlin et al.
GRANTS
1993 Grant for Berlin writers from Berlin Senat1994 Grant from German Kulturfonds
1995 Grant from Berlin Künstlerförderung
1995 Grant from Council for European Studies, Columbia University,
New York, New York (USA) Grant from the departments of history and modern languages,
State University of New York Buffalo (USA)
1998 Grant for literature from the Stiftung Preußischer Seehandlung, Berlin
2001 Visting Fellow, Writer, American Institut for Contemporary German Studies, The John Hopkins University
2001 China Times, Children's Book Award
2008 Senior Fellow, American Institut for Contemporary German Studies, The John Hopkins University
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Among numerous articles and reviews on the philosophy of Kant, Fichte and HegelPoems and Reworkings
NOVELS
Nächte mit Hegel. Eine poetische Vergegenwärtigung des Abstrakten, Buchverlag Der Morgen. Berlin 1984, 215 pages(Translation of the same novel into Chinese. Taiwan. 2006)Wenn ich kein Vogel wär. Buchverlag Der Morgen Berlin 1991, 258 pages; Econ Taschenbuch Verlag, 1993
Partition. Novel. atces sud. 1996 Paris. 296 pages.(Translation of the Novel Wenn ich kein Vogel wär)
Translation of the same novel into Chinese. Taiwan. 2001
Staccato. Novel. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1997 and Taschenbuch Econ-List-Verlag, 2000. 184 pages.
Mauerblume. Autobiography. Claassen-Verlag, Munich, 1999 and Taschenbuch Econ-List-Verlag 2000. 317 pages
Die gefundene Frau. Novel. Claassen-Verlag Munich, 2001. 180 pages. (not yet released)
NON-FICTION
Die Rache der Ostdeutschen. Berlin, 2002, Parthas-Verlag,144 pagesIm Westen was Neues? Berlin 2003, Parthas-Verlag,190 pages
Ostdeutschland war nie etwas Natürliches, Berlin, 2005, , Parthas-Verlag, 308 pages
FILMS
Zwischen Pankow und Zehlendorf (Eine Berliner Geschichte). Screen play based on the book Wenn ich kein Vogel wär for a co-procudtion of DEFA, Studio für Spielfilme and the Allianz-Film for Sender Freies Berlin; Premiere of theater version 1991; Premiere of TV version 1992
ESSAYS
"Des contraintes de la liberté et des libertés de la contrainte" in: ALLEMAGNE d'aujourd'hui, Paris. 1992, pp. 68-76Ende mit Wende, Essay zum Fotoband von Stefan Moses, 58 pages. Hadjes-Verlag 1999Excerpt from an unpublished novel. Seghers-Gesellschaft Berlin and Mainz, 1995.
RADIO PLAYS AND FEATURES: (excerpt)
- Was ist ein Berg. Deutschlandsender Kultur 1992- Lacrimosa 1953. Kinderhörspiel Deutschlandsender Kultur 1993
- Sich nicht zur Unzeit begegnen. Feature, Radio Bremen 1993
- Solidarität ohne Bindung? Zur Anthropologie des Menschen im 21. Jahrhunderts. Feature. Deutschlandradio 1999
- Sich nicht zur Unzeit begegnen
- Social Philosophy at work from the Frankfurter School to the Columbia Faculty Seminars
- Essay für Joseph Meyer zum 80. Geburtstag, in Festschrift der Columbia-Universität New York, 1998 51 pages.
OTHER
Occasional articles since 1998 primarily and regularly for: "Süddeutsche Zeitung" and "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung"; as well as the "Frankfurter Rundschau," the "Tagesspiegel" and "DIE ZEIT"Moderator and panelist for the series "Tacheles, the Berlin group," at Deutschland Radio Berlin, distributed by WDR.TV panels on the German national networks ARD and ZDF, and the Berlin station SFB, on the 10th anniversary of German unification, October 2000.