Moritz Heger, born in Stuttgart in 1971, studied German, Protestant Theology and Theatre Studies in Mainz. He received the ›MDR Literature Prize‹ and its associated ›Audience Prize‹ in 2007. Alongside being an author, he is also a teacher at a Stuttgart high school. From the Depth of the Lake (2021) is his debut with Diogenes, and his second novel following In the Snow (2008).
»Linguistic craft is in every detail and Moritz Heger proves himself to be a sensitive, precise observer.«
Peter Mohr
Landshuter Zeitung
»If there’s such a thing as devout prose, then Moritz Heger is a master of the genre – an author who celebrates slowness, whose profundity unfurls bit by bit, page by page.«
