Arne Sjöberg (1934–1997)

Jürgen Brinkmann worked as an industrial worker in the Federal Republic after the Second World War. After moving to the GDR, he completed an apprenticeship at the technical school for librarians in Leipzig from 1954 to 1957. He then worked as a librarian in Stendal and Leipzig. From 1966 he was a freelance writer, he also worked as a lecturer at the Leipzig Paul List publishing house.

Jürgen Brinkmann became known through his first, strongly autobiographical novel, Frank Mellenthin. He published a number of detective novels under the name Paul Evertier and two science fiction novels under the pseudonym Arne Sjöberg. In 1974 he was awarded the Leipzig City Art Prize.