Judith Hermann

Judith Hermann ( born May 15, 1970 in Berlin ) is a German writer.

Life

Judith Hermann was born in 1970 in Berlin -Tempelhof. She started a German language and philosophy studies with the intention of working as a journalist. She stopped this and opted for an internship in New York. Previously she attended the Berlin School of Journalism. In 1997 she participated in the author's workshop prose part of the Literary Colloquium Berlin; In the same year she received the Alfred Döblin scholarship from the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In America, she wrote her first literary texts and soon discovered the short story as her favorite genre. In 1998, she finally published her first book of prose Summerhouse, Later.

After her first success passed several years in which they - had to learn to deal with the pressure that was exerted by publishers, media and the public on them, to deal - in his own words. 2003, the second volume of stories was followed by Nothing but Ghosts.

Judith Hermann is the mother of a son and lives in Berlin -Prenzlauer Berg.

" Summerhouse, later "

Hermann succeeded literary breakthrough with her ​​first book, the story collection Summer House, Later. Were praised by critics held her in short sentences, still undecided lasting depictions of everyday and seemingly everyday occurrences. Hermann outlined in their melancholy colored short stories the moods of the people and the subtle nuances in a few words. Influenced Hermann case of Raymond Carver, to which it has also referred repeatedly in interviews and speeches price.

Summerhouse, Later was mostly well received by critics. In particular, they showed thrilled that succeeded Hermann, in her stories depict the life of their generation, the end of the 1990 artists living in Berlin - student unemployment Bohème. For Hellmuth Karasek Hermann's stories embody the " sound of a new generation." In addition to this generational effect was also stated that Hermann is a writer who let women tell of their world out, without this being understood as emancipatory or gender- combative literature. Hermann was made literature the figurehead of a "Miss Miracle", which also includes storytellers like Jenny Erpenbeck, Felicitas Hoppe, Zoe Jenny, Juli Zeh or Julia Franck were counted.

Hermanns treatment arms, laconic short stories led to a renaissance of the short story in Germany. Until about 2002 or 2003 number, reminiscent of Hermann volumes of stories from authors were published. This, about Ariane Grundies, Mariana Leky or Ricarda boy, often graduates of the German Literature Institute in Leipzig or the study program " Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism " at the University of Hildesheim, however, ranged only rarely approached their model.

With over 250,000 copies sold and translations in 17 languages ​​summer house, later one of the largest book sales in recent years. The story of Hunter Thompson music from Summerhouse, Later was filmed by the director's student Jacob Ziemnicki 2003 as a thesis. Hurricane from the collection of short stories was published in the 2007 anthology film Nothing processed as ghosts.

" Nothing But Ghosts "

Hermann's second story collection, Nothing but Ghosts from 2003, was also under pressure to meet the expectations of the arts section and the reader and at the same time not even to become the first- Epigonin her. She wrote significantly longer stories that play around the world for this band - this to be the cliché, a 'Berlin - literary figure ' to be escape, among other things, . Here Judith Hermann was inspired by trips they undertook for the Goethe Institute in Tromsø, Venice and Iceland. By the critics and the audience Nothing but Ghosts was not included as enthusiastic as the first fruits. From the literature of the band of pop literature will be assigned.

Four of the stories of Nothing But Ghosts ( cover story Nothing but Ghosts and girlfriends, cold blue and Acqua Alta ) were processed under the direction of Martin Gypkens, the classic 2007 episode film Nothing but Ghosts.

Awards and prizes

For their publications Hermann has received several awards: she was awarded the Bremen Literature Prize 1999. For Summerhouse, Later she received the 1999 Hugo Ball Award and the 2001 Kleist Prize. 2009 Hermann was the city of Bad Homburg awarded the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize.

Works

• Summerhouse, Later. Narratives, 1998 S. Fischer, ISBN 3-596-14770-0.
• Nothing but Ghosts. Narratives, 2003 S. Fischer, ISBN 3-596-15798-6.
• Alice. Narratives, 2009 S. Fischer, ISBN 978-3-10-033182-3.

Judith Hermann's works have been into Chinese, Danish, English, French, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Spanish, Czech, Turkish and Ukrainian translated.

• Gaffa. Narrative. In: Bella triste No. 22, Hildesheim, 2008.
• Summer house, Canitz later. In: . Language in the technical age, No. 145, Berlin, 1998 ( in-progress version of the story summerhouse later, at the Hermann in the author's workshop prose of the Literary Colloquium Berlin worked )