Biography

Anne Hahn, born in 1966 in Magdeburg where she later organised punk concerts and lost her job for political reasons. In 1989 she was arrested during an attempt to flee from Azerbaijan to Iran. After her prison term, she settled in Berlin, studied and has been publishing portraits, reportages and novels since 1999. She processed her experiences of the fall of the Wall in Gegenüber von China (Opposite China), a novel published by Ventil Verlag Mainz in 2014. Together with Frank Willmann, she has written several non-fiction books dedicated to coming to terms with subcultural currents in the GDR – currently they are working on football and nationalism.