Wolfgang Hegewald
Wolfgang Hegewald was born in Dresden-Klotzsche. He studied computer science and Protestant theology in Dresden and Leipzig. Left the GDR on 24 September 1983. One-way ticket Leipzig-Hamburg. Ten years as a freelance author; prose and radio plays. Writer in public service since 1993: he founded and directed the "Studio Literatur und Theater" at the University of Tübingen. From 1996 to 2018 Professor of Poetics, Rhetoric and Creative Writing at the Department of Design at HAW Hamburg. Inventor of the Italo Svevo Prize in 2000. Member of the Free Academy of Arts Hamburg and PEN Berlin. Occasionally honoured, for example at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt, 1984. Scholarship holder at the Villa Massimo Rome, 1987/88. Most recent publication: "Tagessätze/Roman eines Jahres", Göttingen 2021. Hegewald lives in Hamburg and on a houseboat called BARTLEBY on the Schlei.
