Karl Markus Michel

Karl Markus Michel (September 4, 1929 in Hong Kong – November 16, 2000 in Berlin) was a German writer. Karl Markus Michel was the son of German missionaries. He spent his childhood and youth in Darmstadt. After the Abitur, he studied philosophy, sociology, art history, and German studies in Munich and Frankfurt am Main. A planned dissertation about Franz Kafka remained unwritten. From 1955 to 1958, Michel was an employee of the Frankfurt based Institute for Social Research. Simultaneously, he began to write contributions for newspapers like the Frankfurter Hefte (Frankfurt Ledger). After his marriage to Eva Moldenhauer, Michel went to the Hessischer Rundfunk in 1958 where he worked as a Radio drama editor until 1961. In 1961, he changed...