Thomas Brussig

Brussig found it difficult to wield a weapon and had a hard time.

He worked as a museum guard, cleaner and hotel porter among a variety of other odd jobs until the early 90s.

Thomas Brussig commutes back and forth from Berlin to Mecklenburg as a writer and is married.

Brussig's first novel, Wasserfarben ("Watercolors") was published in 1991 under the pseudonym "Cordt Berneburger."

In 1995, he published his breakthrough novel, Helden wie wir (Heroes Like Us, FSG 1997), which dealt with the fall of the Berlin Wall.