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Jirgl was born inBerlin-Friedrichshain.[1] He became a skilled worker forelectromechanics. Then he completed a degree inelectronics atHumboldt University, Berlin.[1] He made first attempts at prose during his studies in the early 1970s.[1] Since 1975 he worked as an engineer at theAcademy of Sciences. He gave up his profession in 1978 to devote more time to writing.[2] He worked as a lighting and service technician at theVolksbühne in Berlin.[2] After submitting his first novelMutter Vater Roman to a Berlin publishing house in 1985, he was accused of a "non-Marxist conception of history".[2] The publication of the novel was refused.[2] Until 1989, none of his manuscripts were published.[2] Since 2009 he has been a member of theGerman Academy for Language and Literature.[2] and he is member of thePEN Centre Germany.[3]
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