Julia Franck

Julia Franck ( born February 20, 1970 in East Berlin ) is a German writer.

Life

Julia Franck was born in 1970 along with her ​​twin sister in Berlin- Lichtenberg. Her mother is actress Anna Franck, her father was the television director Jürgen Sehmisch. 1978 Anna Franck traveled with her ​​four daughters on the Marienfelde in the Federal Republic of Germany. After nine months in the refugee camp in 1979, the family moved to Schleswig -Holstein in the near Rendsburg. There visited Julia Franck from the fourth to the seventh class, the Waldorf School. In 1983, Julia Franck moved back alone to Berlin, where she completed her secondary schooling in 1991. As a result, she began to study law, but decided after a stay of several months in San Francisco for a study of Ancient American Studies, Philosophy and German Literature at the Free University of Berlin. During her school and study time Julia Franck worked as a maid, nanny, assistant nurse, typist, waitress, assistant at the Free University of Berlin and as a freelance journalist for radio ( Sender Freies Berlin) and the Berliner Tagesspiegel. Further abroad led her to the United States to Mexico and Guatemala.

For their texts and books Julia Franck received numerous awards, prizes and scholarships. In 1998 she received the Alfred Döblin scholarship from the Academy of Arts in 2004, she was awarded the Marie -Luise Kaschnitz Prize, in 2005, she spent as a fellow at the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo. In September 2007 she received for her novel The Mittagsfrau the German Book Prize. Since 2001, Julia Franck member of the PEN center of Germany.

Prior to her literary career Julia Franck worked as supporting actress in various films, including 1974 next to Nina Hagen and Käthe Reichel in the GDR TV movie Today is Friday and 1993 alongside Bruno Ganz and Lotte Loebinger in the movie Bright Day by André Nitzschke.

Julia Franck wrote exhibition and catalog essays on the works of contemporary artists, including Thomas Demand, Peter Krauskopf, Friedemann Grieshaber and Gerhard Richter. On February 3, 2012 Julia Franck was the keynote speaker for Gerhard Richter at the major European retrospective in honor of his 80th birthday.

Julia Franck is the granddaughter of the sculptor Ingeborg Hunzinger and great-granddaughter of the painter Philipp Franck. She lives with her two children in Berlin.

Literary work

As a writer Julia Franck first appeared mid-1990s with the participation of literary competitions in appearance. In 1994 she won the youth competition of the New Society of Literature. , 1995 competition Open Mike literature Workshop Berlin with the short story " The wound "

Julia Franck's literary debut, her first novel The new chef, was published in 1997 when Ammann Verlag. The novel describes the interior view of a captive in their circumstances hotel heiress, who is forced by her mother's death, to deal with new freedoms and opportunities.

As of 1998, published Julia Franck texts in numerous anthologies, including the story Two in a walk it was not. Childhoods between East and West ( Susanne Harmful Harmful Anna (ed.) ), which she had co-authored with her twin sister Cornelia.

Published in 1999 Julia Franck's novel Love servants at DuMont. Disclosed is a network of relationships in the triangle and its effects. The Süddeutsche Zeitung discovered it, " perhaps ' the ' Love story of the nineties ." For love servant Julia Franck received the scholarship for the second book of the Foundation of Lower Saxony.

A wider audience Julia Franck was known in the summer of 2000. In June, she was with the short story me nothing you nothing out of her short stories published later this year belly landing. Stories to touch ( also DuMont Verlag) invited to the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize to Klagenfurt and won the 3sat Prize. In August 2000, belly landing at the Literary Quartet was discussed, also Julia Franck was a guest in the Harald Schmidt Show.

In 2003, the novel was published campfire. He told from four perspectives of the lives of East German refugees in the so-called Golden West 70s. Franck illuminates the demonization of others in the field of tension between East and West, as well as all prevailing claims on wealth, happiness and understanding on both sides of the wall.

For in September 2007, published by S. Fischer Verlag novel The Mittagsfrau Julia Franck was awarded the German Book Prize 2007. The novel sold a nearly one million copies and stayed for months on the Spiegel bestseller list.

, 2009, Julia Franck anthology border crossings: authors from East and West remember ( also S. Fischer Verlag) out, the contributions of many well-known authors gathered the border issue.

2011 appeared the novel back to back ( S. Fischer Verlag). Julia Franck tells it starting from the fate of a brother and sister have a family history in Germany of the 1950s and 60s.

Julia Franck's work is popular with literary critics and readers. According to literary critic Denis Scheck Franck's prose draws its sensuality from the skilful description of human relationships, especially in the new cook, servant love and belly landing. Stories to touch. Your dense prose to draw from the fact that it is accessible to all readers through their imagery and sensuality and need no mediation by literary critics.

In her more recent works, Julia Franck sets apart with her family history, German history in general is a central theme of her literary creation. In interviews Julia Franck emphasizes that real events serve her only as a creative suggestion, but none of her novels contain the concrete characterization, for example, a family member. From their experiences and research as well as a critique of the two German systems testifies her novel campfire as well as her preface to the anthology border crossings.

Julia Franck was like many other young German authors at the turn of the century known as, a strong focus was on contemporary German literature and many writers of the younger generation with their publications achieved cult status within a short time. In some parts of the literature review, it was counted a long time to the authors of the so-called Miss miracle, even if it is not mentioned in the Spiegel article by Volker Hage, who coined the term. The term "Miss Miracle" is controversial because of its unclear definition and its chauvinistic importance in literary criticism and literary studies, but is still used.

The books by Julia Franck have been translated into 39 languages ​​.

Awards

Works

• The new chef. Novel. Ammann, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-250-60010-5.
• Love servants. Novel. DuMont, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7701-4970- X.
• Belly landing. Stories to touch. DuMont, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7701-5365-0. ( Selection of them in: I am nothing you nothing narratives DuMont, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8321-7969-0. .. )
• Campfire. Novel. DuMont, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8321-7851-1.
• The lunch lady. Novel. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-022600-6.
• As editor: border crossings. Authors from East and West remember. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-10-022604-4.
• Back to back. Novel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-022605-1.

Translation

• Rebecca Solnit: From the near distance. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-455-50324-1.

Publications on art works

• Ralph Rugoff ( text ), Julia Franck ( text ): Thomas Demand. Phototrophy. Schirmer / Mosel, 2005, ISBN 3-8296-0171-9.
• Friedemann Grieshaber. Sculpture Works on Paper. modo Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86833-014-4.
• Peter Krauskopf. Block. Jovis Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-177-4.
• Dietmar Elger (ed.): Julia Franck: speech for Gerhard Richter. Dresden State Art Collections, 2012, ISBN 978-3-932264-39-9.

Theatre, Film, Audio book

Julia Franck's novel Lady Midday is listed in various stage adaptations, so at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen 2010 in the processing of Volker Hesse, the German - Sorbian Folk Theatre Bautzen in the processing of Eveline Günther and Beatrix Schwarzenbach, at Theater Osnabrück. Directed by Annette Pullen

The novels and short stories by Julia Franck have been published as audio books, mostly read by the author herself, in Hörverlag Munich.

Franck's novel campfire. 2012-2013 was filmed for the cinema under the title West, directed by Christian Schwochow.

Also in planning is the adaptation of the novel The Noonday Witch, produced by UFA Cinema.