A portrait of Helene Hegemann

Helene Hegemann

Directing

Born

February 19, 1992

Place of Birth

Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Biography

Helene Hegemann is a German writer, actress, singer/songwriter and film director. She is best known for "Axolotl Overkill", published in 2010. A book that put Helene on all the top chatshows and in the arts pages of every German newspapers. At the height of the furore, Hegemann was the focus of a campaign spearheaded by German literary giant Günter Grass to protect writers' intellectual copyright. Some critics went so far as to suggest the novel had been written by her father.

The Filmography

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