Katja Lange-Müller was born in East Berlin in 1951.

She has worked as a typesetter and as an auxiliary nurse at psychiatric wards, and she lived in Mongolia for a year. She left the GDR in 1984, five years before the Wall fell.

In 1986, she received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, and in 1995 the Alfred Döblin Prize for her two-part story “Verfrühte Tierliebe.”

Her most recent publication is the short-story volume Die Enten, die Frauen und die Wahrheit.