Began writing at the age of 18 when he submitted a sketch to RIAS, the radio and television station in the American Sector of Berlin during the Cold War.
Austrian-born stage and screen writer who settled in Berlin.
His father was taken by the Russians at the end of World War II and disappeared without a trace until a laconic message arrived from Moscow in the 1960s that 'he had been shot shortly after his arrest, and that by mistake'.