Helene Hegemann , born in 1992, lives in Berlin. 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 Film Festival. In 2013, she published her second novel Jage zwei Tiger , followed by Bungalow in 2018, which was nominated for the German Book Prize. In 2022, her short story collection Schlachtensee was published. She works as an opera, theater, and film director.
