Dirk Pilz
Dirk Pilz (b. 1972) is a drama critic from Berlin for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Berliner Zeitung. He is a cofounder of the German independent drama review www.nachtkritik.de and teaches at several universities.
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European of the Week
Helene Hegemann, the art of cut and paste
11 February 20104Berliner Zeitung Berlin
She’s the new star of the German literary scene. At 17, Helene Hegemann has already beguiled the critics with a novel about disoriented and unrestrained youth. The only problem is she lifted whole passages off the web. But she admits it – and ushers in a new take on plagiarism and “authenticity”, writes the Berliner Zeitung.