Christoph Hein is considered one of the foremost critical authors to have emerged in the German Democratic Republic in the 1980s. He was also a prominent commentator on the changeover from the communist East German regime to capitalism and unification with the Federal Republic. In the 1990s he established himself as a respected author in post-unification Germany and remains committed to his self-proclaimed role as a “chronicler” of his society and its relationship with its past.
Christoph Hein was born on 8 April 1944 in Heinzendorf, Silesia (now part of Poland), as the third child of a Protestant pastor. At the end of the Second World War his family moved to what would, in 1949, become the German Democratic Republic, eventually settling in Bad Düben near Leipzig, Saxony. Hein's
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Citation: Clarke, David. "Christoph Hein". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 September 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5826, accessed 21 November 2024.]
