[1] He studied at the Leipzig University's German Institute for Literature, worked in advertising and published short stories before he debuted as a novelist.
His first novel was Plan D [de] (2011), a political and ironic thriller set in an alternative present where East Germany never fell.
[3] Wie alles begann und wer dabei umkam (2021) is a picaresque novel about death penalty and legal paradoxes.
[1] In 2023 he published the social novel Zwischen Welten which he co-wrote with Juli Zeh.
It consists of e-mails and phone messages between a woman who runs a farm and a man who works at a newspaper; they disagree about many matters but both adore the writer Martin Walser.