HELENE HEGEMANN
DIRECTOR/WRITER
Helene Hegemann moved to Berlin to live with her father when she was 13 and immediately felt at home in the Volksbühne environment, which was charged with anarchy and tradition. With this move, she gave up dancing and began writing. In 2007 she wrote her first play, and at the age of only 14 she created her first mid-length film “Torpedo,” which premiered at the Hofer Filmtage in 2008 and was awarded the Max Ophüls Prize. Just four years later, she published her debut novel “Axolotl Roadkill,” whose later film adaptation, which she directed herself, was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Cinematography Award.
In 2011, she held a fellowship at Villa Aurora, Los Angeles. She has continued to write critically acclaimed novels, including “Bungalow,” for which she received a nomination for the German Book Prize. Hegeman also directs for theater and opera and regularly writes columns and essays for magazines and newspapers (including Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit, Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung).
Helene Hegemann is represented by Katrin Näher.
AXOLOTL OVERKILL
COMING UP
STRIKER
After "Bungalow", a new novel by Helene Hegemann was published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in March, in which the boundaries between conspiracy myths, class struggle and brute force become blurred.