Helene Hegemann
Helene Hegemann, born in 1992, lives in Berlin. In 2008, she won the Max Ophüls Prize with her first film Torpedo. 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 Festival. In 2013, her second novel Hunt Two Tigers was published, followed in 2018 by Bungalow, for which she was nominated for the German Book Prize. She directs for opera, theater, and film.