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Frank Goosen on stage at the Festival Bochum Total in July 2002

Frank Goosen (*May 31, 1966 in Bochum/Germany) is a German cabaret artist and novel author.

He went to school and studied in Bochum. In 1986 he started his studies of history, German language and literature and politics at the Ruhr-University Bochum and finished in 1992 with a Magister (Masterdegree). Afterwards he founded a stand up-comedy group with his old school friend Jochen Malmsheimer. They were very popular in North Rhine-Westphalia and won the Prix Pantheon, the highest doted cabaret adward in Germany, in 1997. After some private differences the comedy group was terminated. Since that time Goosen is an author of novels taking place in his home region, the Ruhr Area in the Cold War time (in the old Western Germany). So the great 80's revival in Western Germany made his story more popular. His most popular novel liegen lernen (2000), in English Learning to Lie, a story about a young man searching in complete 1980s and 90's for his first love from school time, was made to a movie [1] in 2003.

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This article is based on a translation from the German Wikipedia.