Frank Goosen
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Goosen was born in BochumBochum
Bochum is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area and is surrounded by the cities of Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Castrop-Rauxel, Dortmund, Witten and Hattingen.-History:...
, Germany
Germany
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. He went to school and university in Bochum, majoring in history, German and literature and politics at Ruhr University Bochum and finishing in 1992 with a Magister
Magister (degree)
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degree.
Afterward, he founded a stand up-comedy team with a friend, Jochen Malmsheimer. They won the Prix Pantheon, a German cabaret award, in 1997 but later parted ways.
Since then, Goosen has worked as an author, writing novels that take place in the Ruhr area
Ruhr Area
The Ruhr, by German-speaking geographers and historians more accurately called Ruhr district or Ruhr region , is an urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With 4435 km² and a population of some 5.2 million , it is the largest urban agglomeration in Germany...
during the Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
. His most popular novel, liegen lernen, Learning to Lie, is a story about a young man in the 1980s and 1990s searching for love. It was made into a movie in 2003.