C. Rudy Hoppe was born in 1971 in Berlin. After a short career as a musician, computer technician, and job hopper, he studied sound engineering for TV & Film at the film school in Babelsberg and accidentally discovered writing as a passion and profession. In 2000 he attained a scholarship from the EU program “poetry2000” in Ireland. He studies Comparative Literature and History at the Freie Universität Berlin and works as a freelance translator and writer.