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Ingo Schulze (born 15 December 1962) is a Germanwriter born inDresden in formerEast Germany. He studied classicalphilology at theUniversity of Jena for five years, and, untilGerman reunification, was an assistant director (dramatic arts advisor) at the State Theatre inAltenburg 45 km south ofLeipzig for two years. After sleeping through the events of the night of 9 November 1989, Schulze started a newspaper with friends. He was encouraged to write. Schulze spent six months inSt Petersburg which became the basis for his debut collection of short stories33 Moments of Happiness (1995).
Schulze has won a number of awards for his novels and stories, which have been translated into twenty languages, among them into English byJohn E. Woods. In 2007, he was awarded theThüringer Literaturpreis.[1] In 2013 he was awarded theBertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis.
Schulze, the son of a physicist and a doctor, grew up with his mother after his parents' divorce. After completing hisAbitur, which he took in 1981 at theKreuzschule in Dresden, he completed basic military service in theNational People's Army. Until 1988 he studied classicalphilology at theFriedrich-Schiller University of Jena.
Subsequently, Schulze was adramaturg at theLandestheater ofAltenburg, which he left in order to work as a journalist. In 1990 he was a cofounder of the 'independent newspaper' theAlternburger Wochenblatt, which was operational until Autumn 1991, as well as anOffertenblatt (a kind of newspaper for classified ads) called theAnzeiger. Both were published by the Alternburg publishing house, which was managed by Schulze until the end of 1992. In early 1993 he went to Russia, where he launched the advertising newspaperПривет Петербург (PrivetPetersburg).
Since the mid-1990s Schulze has lived as a freelance author inBerlin. He and his wife have two daughters.
Since 2006 he has been a member of theBerlin Academy of the Arts and, since 2007, of theGerman Academy for Language and Poetry inDarmstadt.[2] He is also a member of theSaxony Academy of the Arts[2] and thePEN Centre Germany.
In Autumn 2019 Schulze curated theforum:autoren at the Munich Literature Festival. The theme was titled 'Exercises in paradise. Questions to the world after 1989.'[3]
