Helene Hegemann is a German writer actress singersongwriter and film director She is best known for Axolotl Overkill published in 2010 A book that put Helene on all the top chatshows and in the arts pages of every German newspapers At the height of the furore Hegemann was the focus of a campaign spearheaded by German literary giant Günter Grass to protect writers intellectual copyright Some critics went so far as to suggest the novel had been written by her father