was born in Göttingen in 1966 and grew up in Londonderry/Ireland, Vermillion, South Dakota/USA and various smaller German cities. He has worked as an author and dramaturge since 1991, and has been dramaturge at the Deutsches Theater Berlin since fall 2009. John von Düffel has published novels, essays, translations and adaptations and is the director of the Scenic Writing course at the UdK Berlin.
