Germany, Czechia
Guest of the book fair
He was born and grew up in Prague, after August 1968 he emigrated with his family abroad and lived mainly in Munich, West Berlin and partly in Italy. He studied at the Film and Television Academy in West Berlin. He has directed over 30 television films of various lengths and genres, mostly based on his own screenplays, documentaries, children’s series and detective stories. He currently lives in Prague and Berlin. In 2012, Labyrint published his prose Poste restante (originally in German: Prag, poste restante) which was very well received and won the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize. In 2017, he published a book of prose entitled Lední medvědwhich he wrote in Czech. The grandson of the famous German writer Heinrich Mann and the son of his Czech colleague Ludvík Aškenazy shows his literary talent also in his new novel Stříbrný kouzelník (2023).
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