Kehlmann was born in
Munich, West Germany, the son of the television director
Michael Kehlmann and the actress Dagmar Mettler. His family moved to his father's hometown
Vienna when Daniel was six years old. His paternal grandparents were born Jewish, and his father was in a concentration camp during WWII. Kehlmann currently lives in
Berlin. Since 2015, Kehlmann has held the Eberhard Berent Chair at
New York University. He is a member of the
Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. From 2016 to 2017, he was a fellow at the
New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars. The novel
Tyll was shortlisted for the
International Booker Prize. Kehlmann also works as a screenwriter and wrote the script for the television film
Das letzte Problem. He adapted
Thomas Mann's novel
Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man for an upcoming movie. Kehlmann is married and has a son. ==Awards and honors==