Rainald Goetz, born in Munich in 1954, studied history and medicine in Munich and obtained a PhD in both subjects. He briefly worked as a physician but quit the profession for the sake of literature in his early thirties. His first novel Irre, set in a psychiatric hospital, was published in 1983. Goetz subsequently also succeeded as a playwright. In 1998, Goetz wrote the internet diary »Rubbish for Everyone«, probably the first literary blog in Germany, which was published in book form in 1999 and together with Rave, Jeff Koons, Celebration and Dekonspiratione, constitutes Heute Morgen, Goetz’s great history of the present. Rainald Goetz has received numerous prizes, most notably the Büchner Prize in 2015. He...
Rainald Goetz, born in Munich in 1954, studied history and medicine in Munich and obtained a PhD in both subjects. He briefly worked as a...
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»Rave tells stories from life in the depths of the night. What are they really doing, these people who live at night, when they go somewhere to party every weekend? They listen to...
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