Sibylle Berg

Sibylle Berg was born at and spent her childhood in Weimar where she also worked as a puppeteer until moving to the West in 1984. She studied briefly at the Dimitri theatre school in Ticino and then had various jobs. She began to write, published her first articles and reportage, and was a columnist for the "Zeit-Magazin". Her first book appeared in 1997, and other novels and stories followed. "Helges Leben" was her first play. Sibylle Berg lives in Zurich.

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