Marko Martin

Marko Martin, born in 1970, left the GDR in May 1989 as a conscientious objector and now lives in Berlin as a writer. In addition to the Ovid Prize and the Reiner Kunze Prize, he also received the Werner Schulz Prize in 2026. His most recent essay collections are "Und es geschieht jetzt. Jüdisches Leben nach dem 7. Oktober" and "Freiheitsaufgaben" (Klett-Cotta/Tropen).