Wolfram Fleischhauer

Wolfram Fleischhauer (* June 9, 1961 in Karlsruhe) is a German writer and interpreter. Fleischhauer grew up in Karlsruhe and graduated from the Fichte Gymnasium in 1982. He studied literature in Germany (Berlin), France, the USA and Spain. For his work as a conference interpreter he commutes between Brussels and Berlin, where he lives with his wife and two children. In 1996, he achieved his breakthrough as a writer with the art-historical factual thriller Die Purpurlinie (The Purple Line). Fleischhauer sees himself at home between the "ivory tower" of high literature and the "puffery parterre" - among the storytellers. His novel Drei Minuten mit der Wirklichkeit (2001) quickly became a cult book in the German tango Argentino scene due to its central theme of tango.