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Kathrin Aehnlich
Kathrin Aehnlich was born in Leipzig in 1957. After studying at the School of Civil Engineering, she moved to the Institute for Literature in the late 1980s. She wrote radio plays, short stories and a children’s book before turning to journalism. After the fall of the Wall, she worked for Die Andere Zeitung, the first independent weekly in the DDR. She has been a regular freelance feature editor with MD Radio’s Figaro since 1992. Her novel Wenn die Wale an Land gehen (When whales go ashore) was published by Kunstmann in 2013. Kathrin Aehnlich lives in Markkleeberg, south of Leipzig, and has a daughter.
