Born in 1964 in Heilbronn. He trained as an actor and was subsequently engaged at several German theaters. Since 1996 he has been a freelance writer and director in Berlin, where he lives with his family. He has written forty plays, which have been translated in twelve languages. Currently he is the most played living German playwright.

Europa brings together four European theatres: Birmingham Repertory Theatre (UK), Dresden State Theatre (Germany), Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz (Poland) and Zagreb Youth Theatre (Croatia) - and four leading playwrights from each country - Steve Waters (UK), Lutz Hübner (Germany), Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk (Poland) and Tena stivicic (Croatia).
This revelatory piece of theatre sets out to explore the possibilities of collaborative playwriting, to produce a single work that is multi-authored and multi-lingual. Drawing on first-hand accounts, including memories from the 1930s up to the present day, the playwrights have collaborated to overcome language barriers and weave their separate languages into one single dramatic entity. The resulting play engages with increased levels of debate about European identity versus national identity.
This edition features both the multi-lingual and the English text, and has an introduction by the dramaturg behind the project, Caroline Jester.