Doris Runge (born 15 July 1943 in Carlow)[1] is a German writer.

She was the daughter of a manufacturer whose business was expropriated after World War II.

Her family moved to Neukirchen in Schleswig-Holstein in 1953,[2] and he attended schools in Oldenburg and Lübeck before following high education in Kiel where she became a teacher.

Runge moved back to Germany where she lives in the so-called Weiße Haus (White House) in Cismar [de], Holstein.

[2] She has an international standing (translations into Portuguese, American and Czech).