About Helene Hegemann
Helene Hegemann, born in 1992, lives in Berlin. In 2008, she won the Max Ophüls Prize with her first film "Torpedo". In 2010, she made her debut as an author with the novel "Axolotl Roadkill", which has been translated into 20 languages. The film adaptation, which she directed herself, won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the 2017 Sundance Festival. Her second novel "Jage zwei Tiger" was published in 2013, followed by "Bungalow" in 2018, for which she was nominated for the German Book Prize. In 2021, she wrote about Patti Smith and Christoph Schlingensief. She directs for opera, theater and film. Her most recent book of stories is "Schlachtensee".
