Felicitas Hoppe
Felicitas Hoppe | |
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Felicitas Hoppe 2019 | |
Born | (1960-12-22) 22 December 1960 (age 63) Hamelin, Lower Saxony, West Germany |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | German |
Period | late 20th – early 21st century |
Genre | Narrative |
Felicitas Hoppe (born 22 December 1960) is a German writer. She received the Georg Büchner Prize in 2012.
Biography
Early years
Felicitas Hoppe was born in Hamelin, Lower Saxony, and grew up there. After her Abitur she studied literature, rhetorics and theology: from 1982 to 1984 at the Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen, from 1984 to 1986 at the University of Oregon and from 1987 to 1990 at the Freien Universität Berlin.[1][2] In 2006 she was a visiting scholar at Dartmouth College. She worked as a dramaturge and journalist. Since 1996 she has been a freelance writer living in Berlin.[3]
Career
Her work often deals with transitory themes, as in "Picknick der Friseure", in a comical, but nevertheless thrilling way, which make her stories seem to be absurd. She also uses the technique of quotation for her novels, as in "Johanna", where she reconstructs the story of Joan of Arc using official case records.[4] As a relatively young, successful and female writer, she belongs to a group of writers which literary criticism calls the "Fräuleinwunder". She also writes children's books.[1]
For her work as a writer she received the following awards: in 1994 Alfred-Döblin-Stipendium (a scholarship), in 1996 Aspekte-Literaturpreis and the Ernst-Willner-Preis [de] at the Festival of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt, in 1997 the Rauris Literature Prize, in 2004 the Nicolas Born Prize, the Heimito von Doderer-Literaturpreis and the Spycher: Literaturpreis Leuk [de], in 2005 the Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau.[1] In 2005 she also held the Poetikdozentur: junge Autoren der Fachhochschule Wiesbaden.[1] In 2007 she received Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen and the Roswitha-Preis.[1] In 2008 Hoppe held the Bert Brecht Gastprofessur at the University of Augsburg.
In 2012, Hoppe was awarded the most prestigious literary prize in German literature, the Georg Büchner Prize.[5] In 2020, she was awarded the first Großer Preis des Deutschen Literaturfonds.[6]
Works
- Unglückselige Begebenheiten, Eppelheim 1991 ISBN 978-3-928459-00-6
- Picknick der Friseure, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1996 ISBN 978-3-498-02928-9
- Das Richtfest, Berlin 1997
- Drei Kapitäne, Berlin 1998
- Pigafetta, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1999 ISBN 978-3-499-22761-5
- Vom Bäcker und seiner Frau, Berlin 1999
- Die Torte, Berlin 2000[7]
- Fakire und Flötisten, Berlin 2001
- Paradiese, Übersee, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2003, Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006 ISBN 978-3-596-17127-9
- Die Reise nach Java, Berlin 2003
- Verbrecher und Versager, Hamburg 2004 ISBN 978-3-936384-12-3
- Ausgerutscht, Mathegeschichte
- Johanna, Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006 ISBN 978-3-596-16743-2
- Iwein Löwenritter, Frankfurt am Main 2008 ISBN 978-3-596-85259-8
- Sieben Schätze. Augsburger Vorlesungen, Frankfurt am Main 2009 ISBN 978-3-10-032455-9
- Der beste Platz der Welt, Dörlemann Verlag, Zürich 2009 ISBN 978-3-908777-51-9
- Abenteuer – was ist das?, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0739-1
- Hoppe, Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-032451-1[8][9]
- Kröne dich selbst – sonst krönt dich keiner., Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6755-8
- Prawda. Eine amerikanische Reise. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-032457-3
- The Making of Prawda., Distanz Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95476-282-8
- Grimms Märchen für Heldinnen von heute und morgen., Editor: Felicitas Hoppe, Reclam, Ditzingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-15011213-7
References
- ^ a b c d e "Felicitas Hoppe – Autorenlexikon". www.literaturport.de.
- ^ "Hoppe, Felicitas". munzinger.de. Munzinger Online/Personen – Internationales Biographisches Archiv. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
- ^ "Felicitas Hoppe". S. Fischer Verlage.
- ^ Michaela Holdenried: Anmerkungen zur postmodernen Zitationspraxis und Autorschaft im Werk von Felicitas Hoppe (pdf-Datei, 184 KB)
- ^ Tobias Bohm (15 May 2012). "Felicitas Hoppe erhält den Georg-Büchner-Preis 2012". boersenblatt.net. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
- ^ "Felicitas Hoppe bekommt Großen Preis des Literaturfonds". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Munich. dpa. 29 July 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ "Zitternde Zeilen". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Frankfurt. 12 December 2000. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ Detering, Heinrich (2 March 2012). "Eine ganze Horde von Stieren bei den Hörnern gepackt". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Frankfurt. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ Krekeler, Elmar (17 March 2012). "Felicitas Hoppe". Die Welt (in German). Berlin. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
External links
- Official website
- Literature by and about Felicitas Hoppe in the German National Library catalogue
- Michaela Holdenried: Anmerkungen zur postmodernen Zitationspraxis und Autorschaft im Werk von Felicitas Hoppe (pdf-Datei, 184 KB)
- Felicitas Hoppe im Interview über Handlungsorte in ihrem Werk
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- 1923 Adam Karrillon and Arnold Mendelssohn
- 1924 Alfred Bock and Paul Thesing
- 1925 Wilhelm Michel and Rudolf Koch
- 1926 Christian Heinrich Kleukens and Wilhelm Petersen
- 1927 Kasimir Edschmid and Johannes Bischoff
- 1928 Richard Hoelscher and Well Habicht
- 1929 Carl Zuckmayer and Adam Antes
- 1930 Nikolaus Schwarzkopf and Johannes Lippmann
- 1931 Alexander Posch and Hans Simon
- 1932 Albert H. Rausch and Adolf Bode
- 1933–1944 not given
- 1945 Hans Schiebelhuth
- 1946 Fritz Usinger
- 1947 Anna Seghers
- 1948 Hermann Heiss
- 1949 Carl Gunschmann
- 1950 Elisabeth Langgässer
- 1951 Gottfried Benn
- 1952 not given
- 1953 Ernst Kreuder
- 1954 Martin Kessel
- 1955 Marie Luise Kaschnitz
- 1956 Karl Krolow
- 1957 Erich Kästner
- 1958 Max Frisch
- 1959 Günter Eich
- 1960 Paul Celan
- 1961 Hans Erich Nossack
- 1962 Wolfgang Koeppen
- 1963 Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- 1964 Ingeborg Bachmann
- 1965 Günter Grass
- 1966 Wolfgang Hildesheimer
- 1967 Heinrich Böll
- 1968 Golo Mann
- 1969 Helmut Heißenbüttel
- 1970 Thomas Bernhard
- 1971 Uwe Johnson
- 1972 Elias Canetti
- 1973 Peter Handke
- 1974 Hermann Kesten
- 1975 Manès Sperber
- 1976 Heinz Piontek
- 1977 Reiner Kunze
- 1978 Hermann Lenz
- 1979 Ernst Meister
- 1980 Christa Wolf
- 1981 Martin Walser
- 1982 Peter Weiss
- 1983 Wolfdietrich Schnurre
- 1984 Ernst Jandl
- 1985 Heiner Müller
- 1986 Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- 1987 Erich Fried
- 1988 Albert Drach
- 1989 Botho Strauß
- 1990 Tankred Dorst
- 1991 Wolf Biermann
- 1992 George Tabori
- 1993 Peter Rühmkorf
- 1994 Adolf Muschg
- 1995 Durs Grünbein
- 1996 Sarah Kirsch
- 1997 H. C. Artmann
- 1998 Elfriede Jelinek
- 1999 Arnold Stadler
- 2000 Volker Braun
- 2001 Friederike Mayröcker
- 2002 Wolfgang Hilbig
- 2003 Alexander Kluge
- 2004 Wilhelm Genazino
- 2005 Brigitte Kronauer
- 2006 Oskar Pastior
- 2007 Martin Mosebach
- 2008 Josef Winkler
- 2009 Walter Kappacher
- 2010 Reinhard Jirgl
- 2011 Friedrich Christian Delius
- 2012 Felicitas Hoppe
- 2013 Sibylle Lewitscharoff
- 2014 Jürgen Becker
- 2015 Rainald Goetz
- 2016 Marcel Beyer
- 2017 Jan Wagner
- 2018 Terézia Mora
- 2019 Lukas Bärfuss
- 2020 Elke Erb
- 2021 Clemens J. Setz
- 2022 Emine Sevgi Özdamar
- 2023: Lutz Seiler