Katharina Hacker

Katharina Hacker ( born January 11, 1967 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German writer. Her work includes narrative and essayistic prose, and translations from the Hebrew.

Life

Katharina Hacker attended from 1975 to 1986, the classical language Heinrich -von- Gagern High School in Frankfurt am Main. From 1986 she studied philosophy, history and Judaic studies at the University of Freiburg. In 1990 she moved to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; parallel, she worked as a German teacher and the School for Cultural Studies in Tel Aviv. Since 1996 she is a freelance writer based in Berlin. In the fall of 2006, her novel The have-nots has been awarded the German Book Prize. In October 2013, it joined the Literary Advisory Board of the digital model project in fiction.

Change of publisher

In November 2009, Katharina Hacker said in a press statement that it had ended the long-standing cooperation with the Suhrkamp Verlag. The reasons for that disputes between it and the publishing director of the carried out against their will release her novel Alix, Anton and the others, their " most important in the core book" that was part of a three-part novel project. One belonging to this project novella was published in May 2010 in the publishing house S. Fischer.

Awards

  • 2001 Artist residency for lock Wiepersdorf
  • 2005 Town Clerk of Bergen- Enkheim
  • 2006 German Book Prize
  • 2006 Düsseldorf Literature Prize
  • 2010 Stefan Andres price

Works

Prose

  • Tel Aviv. A city narrative. Suhrkamp ( Edition Suhrkamp 2008), Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-518-12008-5
  • Morpheus or The beak shoe. Narratives. Suhrkamp (there in 2092 ), Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-518-12092-1
  • Sketch of my grandmother. In: Of snails. Two texts of Paul Böhmer and Katharina Hacker. Dielmann, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-929232-53-7
  • The lifeguard. Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000; paperback ibid. 2006, ISBN 3-518-45905-8
  • A kind of love. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2003; paperback ibid. 2005, ISBN 3-518-45692- X
  • The have-nots. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2006; paperback ibid. 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-45910-2
  • Transmission line. Prose poems. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-41909-0
  • Alix, Anton and the others. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-42127-7
  • The strawberries of Anton's mother. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-10-030064-5.
  • A village's history. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2011. ISBN 978-3-10-030066-9

Broadcasting Posts

  • With Baudelaire at the Airport ( Baudelaire and the Art of Memory ). Radio feature. Radio Germany 1998

Translations

  • Leah Aini: A must be there. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-518-40924-7
  • Yossi Avni: The garden of the dead trees. Novel in 15 episodes ( with Markus Lemke ). Männerschwarm, Hamburg 2000; Reprint ibid. 2006, ISBN 3-935596-87-1

Audiobook

  • The have-nots. Speaker: Inga Busch. Adapted and directed by: Gabi Rüth. 4 CDs. DAV, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89813-638-8
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