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About Rainald Goetz

Rainald Goetz born in 1954 in Munich studied History and Medicine in Munich and obtained a doctoral degree in both subjects. He briefly worked as a doctor but quit this profession for the sake of literature in his early thirties. His first novel Insane was published in 1983. In 1998 Goetz wrote the internet diary Rubbish for Everyone probably the first literary blog in Germany with entries on the world of media and consumerism. It was published in book form in 1999 and together with Rave Jeff Koons Celebration and Deconspiration belongs to This Morning his great history of the present. Goetz has been awarded numerous prizes most notably the Georg Büchner Prize in 2015. He lives in Berlin.