Jens Sparschuh

Jens Sparschuh (born 14 May 1955) is a German writer from Chemnitz.

Sparschuh was born in Chemnitz (then Karl-Marx-Stadt) and grew up in East Berlin.

After graduation in Halle (Saale) he studied philosophy and logic in Leningrad from 1973 until 1978.

[1] From 1978, he was assistant-scientist at the Humboldt University of Berlin and in 1983 he got his Ph.D. for the thesis „heuristischen Ausdrucksfähigkeit aussagenlogischer Beweisbegriffe“.

[2] From then on, Sparschuh makes his living as a writer of novels, essays, poetry and audio books.

The writer Jens Sparschuh at a reading at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2017