Felicitas Hoppe

Felicitas Hoppe ( born December 22, 1960 in Hameln ) is a German writer. She has been awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 2012.

Life and work

Hoppe was born as the third of five children. In 1980 she took on Victoria Louise School in Hamlin High School and then studied in Hildesheim, Tübingen, Eugene, Oregon, Berlin and Rome, inter alia, literature, rhetoric, theology, Italian and Russian. She also worked on various language schools and at the Goethe Institute as a teacher for German as a foreign language, and occasionally as a journalist for various feature articles. She is a member of the PEN center of Germany.

Since 1990, she has received numerous grants, since 1996 she works as a writer in Berlin. In 1997, she took on a cargo ship container a trip around the world from Hamburg to Hamburg and has been reading, writing and lecturing at home and abroad, both in Europe and overseas, go. In addition to the literature their main interest of music and the story is true. Occasionally she collaborates with artists and writes the way for various newspapers, magazines and radio as well as literary contributions to textbooks of mathematics. She also writes children's books.

From 1994 to 2003 she was the author of the Rowohlt publishing house. Since 2004, she is the author of the S. Fischer publishing house, where her life's work appears, which is translated into several languages.

Elmar Krekeler designated Hoppe in March 2012 as "Germany's most awesome Fabuliererin ". One of their favorite characters in literature is Pinocchio.

Hoppe had poetics lectureships and visiting professorships in Wiesbaden, Mainz, Augsburg and Göttingen and at Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire) and at Georgetown University, Washington, DC held. In 2012 she received the Visiting Professor of Intercultural Poetics at the University of Hamburg and was awarded by the German Academy for Language and Literature with the prestigious Georg Büchner Prize. "At a time in which the speeches in their own right, the literature increasingly dominated, encircled Felicitas Hoppe's sensitive and with all sense of comic melancholy storytelling the mystery of identity," the jury based its decision.

Awards and scholarships

  • 2005: Poetics lectureship at the University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden
  • 2006: Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor / Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
  • 2007: Writer in Residence at the University of Innsbruck
  • 2007: Writer in Residence Deutsches Haus New York
  • 2008: Bertolt Brecht visiting professor at the University of Augsburg
  • 2008: Writer in Residence Georgetown University Washington DC
  • 2009: Poetics lecturer at the Georg -August- University of Göttingen
  • 2010: Writer in Residence Georgetown University Washington DC
  • 2012: Visiting Professor of Intercultural Poetics at the University of Hamburg
  • 2013: Poetics lecturer at the Technical University of Dortmund

Works

Stories, stories, reports

  • Unfortunate events. Stories. Hoppe- Dörwald, Eppelheim 1991, ISBN 978-3928459006.
  • Picnic of hairdressers. Stories. Random House, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 978-3498029289.
  • The topping out ceremony. Short stories. With nine colored linocuts by Ingrid Jörg. Berliner hand press, Berlin 1997.
  • The cake. Short stories. With six colored linocuts by Ingrid and Wolfgang Jörg. Berliner Hand Press, Berlin, 2000.
  • Fakirs and flautist. Narrative. With four colored linocuts by Ingrid Jörg. Berliner Hand Press, Berlin 2001
  • The trip to Java. A research report. With colored linocuts by Ingrid Jörg. Berliner Hand Press, Berlin, 2004.
  • Criminals and losers: Five Portraits. Short stories. Mare Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 978-3936384123.
  • Seven Treasure: Augsburg lectures. Short stories. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3100324559.
  • The best place in the world. Short stories. Dörlemann Verlag, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3908777519.
  • Adventure - what is it? Poetics lectures on 2 and 3 December 2009 Göttingen. Wallenstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3835307391

Children and Youth books

  • Three captains. Berliner Hand Press, Berlin, 1998.
  • From the baker and his wife. With colored linocuts by Ingrid Jörg. Berliner Hand Press, Berlin, 1999.
  • Ingrid monkeys. A Berlin birthday. With colored linocuts by Ingrid Jörg. Berliner Hand Press, Berlin, 2006.
  • Iwein Lion Knights: Tells the novel by Hartmann von Aue. With four color plates by Michael Sowa. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3596852598.
  • The white woman. A garden party. With colored linocuts by Ingrid Jörg. Berliner Hand Press, Berlin, 2008.
  • The pardoned turkey. Animals in the White House. With colored linocuts by Ingrid Jörg. Berliner Hand Press, Berlin, 2010.
  • Green Egg with Bacon: The very best of Dr. Seuss. Original Title: Green Eggs and Ham. German -language translation published by Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3596854417.

Novels

  • Pigafetta. Random House, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 978-3499227615. Reprint Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3596171293.
  • Havens overseas. Random House, Reinbek 2003. Reprint Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3596171279.
  • Johanna. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3596167432.
  • Hoppe. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3100324511 ( Review by Heinrich Detering in FAZ.net feuilleton of 2 March 2012)

Foreword to:

  • Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov: This single storey America: A Journey with photos of Ilya Ilf in black and white and letters from America, from the Russian by Helmut Ettinger. With a Preface by Alexandra Ilf and an introduction by Felicitas Hoppe; The other library, Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011 ISBN 978-3-8218-6239-2
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