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Peter Stephan Jungk (born December 19, 1952, in Santa Monica, California) is an American German-speaking novelist.
Jungk is the son of futurologist Robert Jungk. He grew up in the United States and after 1957 in Vienna. From 1968 to 1970 he attended the Rudolf-Steiner-School in Berlin. He lived in Salzburg from 1970 till he took his Matura in 1972. In 1973 Jungk worked with the theater of Basel as an assistant director. From 1974 to 1976 he studied at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.
From 1976 to 1979 he lived in Salzburg again. In 1979 he worked with Peter Handke on filming Handke's The Left-Handed Woman (Die linkshändige Frau)as an assistant director. [1] In 1980 Jungk attended a Torah school in Jerusalem. He moved back to Vienna in 1981. [1] Since 1988 he is living in Paris with his wife, photographer Lillian Birnbaum . In 1994 their daughter Adah Dylan was born.
Jungk is an author of novels, essays and scripts. In some cases he also directed the movie version of his own works. Besides that he translates from English.
In January 2013 the opera The Perfect American by Philip Glass, based on Jungk's novel Der König von Amerika, premiered at the Teatro Real in Madrid.
Jungk is a member of the Austrian PEN Club.
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