Peter Wawerzinek

Who is Peter Wawerzinek?

Peter Wawerzinek is a German artist and writer.

Peter Wawerzinek was born in 1954 in Rostock, Germany, at the time part of East Germany. His parents escaped from East Germany shortly after his birth leaving him behind. He grew up in the north of East Germany near the coast of the Baltic Sea and was adopted after some years in children's homes.

He moved to East Berlin in 1978 where he studied art, worked a various jobs including gravedigger and carpenter. In the 1980s he was a performance artist and poet. As of 2010 he lives in Berlin. He won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2010 for his excerpt Ich finde dich of his novel Rabenliebe which was also on the short-list of the 2010 German Book Prize.