Dirk Kurbjuweit

Dirk Kurbjuweit was born in 1962 in Wiesbaden and has worked as a journalist at Die Zeit and Der Spiegel. In 2008 he took over as head of Der Spiegel's Berlin office. To date he has written five acclaimed novels, three of which have been turned into film scripts, including Schussangst and Zweier Ohne. Among many other awards, Kurbjuweit has received the Egon Erwin Kirsch Award in both 1998 and 2002 for his journalistic work.