Burkhard Spinnen

Burkhard Spinnen (born December 28, 1956, in Mönchengladbach) is a German author.

[2] After completing his secondary education and his military service in 1976, he studied Mass communication, Sociology and German Studies at the University of Münster, completing his master's degree in 1984 and then his doctorate in the Faculty of Philosophy in 1989.

[3] Burkhard Spinnen is a member of PEN Centre Germany.

[5] Since 2011 he has been a member of the prestigious North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.

[2] In 2016 he published a frank account of his mother’s gradual decline into dementia.