Born in 1974, Christiane Neudecker is a trained theater director (Ernst Busch Drama School, Berlin) and has staged numerous international productions with phase7 performing.arts. Her previously published literary work includes the collection of stories "A Sound in the Silence" (2005), the novel "Nowhere Else" (2008) and "The Siamese Piano" (2010, all published by Luchterhand/Randomhouse). She received various national literary awards and grants and is based in Berlin/Germany.