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Biographical note
Roland Schimmelpfennig, born in 1967, is Germany's most celebrated contemporary playwright. He began his career as a journalist before studying to be a theatre director, and his plays have now been performed in more than forty countries. Schimmelpfennig is the recipient of the highest Playwriting Award in Germany, the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Prize, to honor his entire Oeuvre. One Clear, Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century is his first novel, shortlisted for the Leipzig Bookfair Prize in 2016. His play Winter Solstice is on tour across the U.K. in 2018. He lives in Berlin.Tells an unaffected, gritty, exciting story that you can immediately imagine as a film
- Felix Mueller, Berliner Morgenpost
The panorama of characters is intoxicating
- Margarete Affenzeller, Der Standard
Schimmelpfennig the novelist, like the playwright, succeeds in making his characters lively and believable with just a few strokes
- Monika Wolting, literaturekritik.de
A restless novel written in clear language by a dramatist used to condensing events into vivid scenes.
- Anne Fritsch, Munich Feuilleton
An intoxicating sequence of scenes, with the sober realization that nothing can end well here
- Maike Schiller, Hamburger Abendblatt
A breathless noir novel full of fragile characters, an a powerfully compelling read - the pages practically turn by themselves
- Angelika Grabher-Hollenstein, APA