Mario Wirz was born in Marburg, Germany, in 1956 and worked as an author, director, and actor. In 1988 he moved to Berlin to be a free-lance writer. His work includes numerous plays, collections of poems and short stories, and novels. His prose works include "Es ist sp't, ich kann nicht atmen: Ein n'chtlicher Bericht (It's Late, I Can't Breathe: A Nocturnal Narrative)," 1992, "Biographie eines lebendigen Tages," 1994, and "Umarmungen am Ende der Nacht," 1999. His works of poetry include "Und Traum zerzaust dein Haar," 1982, "All die vielen Nachtschritte," 1984, "Ich rufe die W'lfe," 1993, "Das...