Alexa Hennig from Lange

Alexa Hennig von Lange at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017

Alexa Hennig von Lange (2003)

Alexa Hennig von Lange (born March 22, 1973 in Hanover ) is a German writer and presenter .

Life

Alexa Hennig von Lange is the daughter of an architect couple. She grew up in the Hanover region and attended Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium in Letter . At the age of 13 she won the NDR competition “ Children write for children ” with her short story “Esabeth ”.

In 1994 she began her career as an assistant editor in the premiere production Dasreal Leben . She also modeled for Benetton . From 1995 she hosted the children's program Bim Bam Bino on Kabel 1. In 1997, she started working as a writer on the entertainment series Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten . But after only nine months she finished working there because she began to use the “GZSZ jargon” in private. In the same year, Relax was published , with which she founded pop literature in Germany alongside Christian Kracht and Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre . Her debut novel, which is about growing up, sexuality and drug use, immediately made her one of the most successful authors of her generation.

She has written several plays, including for the Volksbühne Berlin and the Schauspielhaus Hannover (a venue of the Lower Saxony State Theater ). In 1998 her piece Flashback , written with Stefan Pucher , was premiered in Berlin .

In 1999 her novel Ich bin’s was published . 2000 May became 3D. A diary novel published together with Daniel Haaksmann and Till Müller-Klug . In 2001 I just have luck followed , in 2002 Lelle . In the same year, Hennig von Lange received the “ German Youth Literature Prize ” for I'm just lucky .

At the end of 2003, Where I Come From was published . With this novel, Hennig von Lange finds his way back to her literary roots. 2005 appeared in Why so sad? , again from the perspective of the Lelle figure, who has now matured into Elisabeth, followed in 2006 by Mira, deeply in love . In 2007 the novel Risk was published , with which the writer shows for the first time a sense of thriller-like tension.

In September 2008 Alexa Hennig von Lange started a new series of books for young people in the publishing house cbj, which belongs to the "Random House" publishing group; people made the start , I feel easy . Lelle, the main figure in Hennig von Lange's works, is back and tells new stories from her life. The other volumes are to be published every six months. In March 2009, the volume 44 Moments: Notes of a Determined Mother by Kirsty Gunn was first translated into German by Alexa Hennig von Lange. Hennig von Lange also wrote the epilogue of the German edition of Gunn's autobiographical text collage, which provides information about her decision to devote a year to her daughters instead of her writing career.

Alexa Hennig von Lange has five children from three men. In 2015 she moved to Brandenburg with her current husband, the reporter Marcus Jauer . Since 2017 she has been living with her family again in Berlin, where she had lived from 1993 to 2015.

Books

Signed book

• 1997 Relax. Novel. Rogner & Bernhard Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8077-0357-2 .
• 1999 it's me. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, ISBN 978-3-462-03042-6 .
• 2001 I'm just lucky . Youth novel. rororo Verlag, ISBN 978-3-499-21249-9 .
• 2002 Lelle. Children's book. Oetinger Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7891-3713-6 .
• 2003 Where I'm from. Novel. Rowohlt Verlag, ISBN 978-3-87134-459-6 .
• 2004 first love. Youth novel. Rowohlt Verlag, ISBN 978-3-87134-506-7 .
• 2004 Mira is enough. Youth novel. Rowohlt Verlag, ISBN 978-3-499-21297-0 .
• 2005 Why so sad? Novel. Rowohlt Verlag, ISBN 978-3-87134-460-2 .
• 2006 Mira fell in love with a youth novel. Rowohlt Verlag, ISBN 978-3-499-21345-8 .
• 2007 risk. Novel. Dumont Book Publisher, ISBN 978-3-8321-7999-1 .
• 2008 folks, I feel easy teenage novel. cbt Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-570-16003-9 .
• 2009 folks, my heart is glowing. Youth novel. cbt Verlag, ISBN 978-3-570-16018-3 .
• 2009 Peace. Novel. DUMONT literature and art publishing house, ISBN 978-3-8321-9502-1 .
• 2009 love shocks people! Youth novel. cbt Verlag, ISBN 978-3-570-16035-0 .
• 2009 folks, life is wild. Youth novel. cbt Verlag, ISBN 978-3-570-16029-9 .
• 2010 Lucy and the Boys - Dream Room Apartment: Volume 1. Youth novel. cbt Verlag, ISBN 978-3-570-16073-2 .
• 2011 Lucy and the Boys - Crazy Hearts: Volume 2. Youth novel. cbt Verlag, ISBN 978-3-570-16090-9 .
• 2011 Slight turbulence. Novel. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, ISBN 978-3-570-10073-8 .
• 2013 The breath of fear . Paperback 2013, ISBN 978-3-570-16092-3 .
• 2013 The longer, the better. Novel. cbt Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-570-10074-5 .
• 2016 How a nut turned my life upside down . Children's book. Thienemann Verlag, Stuttgart, ISBN 978-3-522-18441-0 .
• 2016 Are you still stressing or are you already in love? Narrative non-fiction book. Together with Marcus Jauer. Gütersloher publishing house, ISBN 978-3-579-08949-2 .
• 2017 My summer as Heidi . Children's book. Thienemann Verlag, Stuttgart, ISBN 978-3-522-18468-7 .
• 2017 Breaking Good . Non-fiction book for young people. Together with Marcus Jauer. cbt Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-570-16297-2 .
• 2018 battle stars . Novel. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8321-9774-2 .
• 2019 The Christmas siblings . Novel. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8321-9775-9 .

As editor

• I love U - 2009

As a translator

• 44 Moments from Kirsty Gunn - 2009
• A Rough Job or How I Helped God Save by Barry Jonsberg - 2010

Collaboration with:

• May 3D
• West-Eastern Divas
• Big feelings, small disasters
• Love down to the blood
• Wedding dance
• The Ex
• But I'm not tired at all
• Jump into the cold water
• My song

literature

• Sandra Mehrfort: "I constructions in pop literature - Christian Krachts Faserland (1995), Alexa Hennig von Langes Relax (1997) and Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre's solo album (1998)" - In: Individuality as a Challenge - Identity Constructions in the Modern Age (1770 -2006) , ed. by Jutta Schlich and Sandra Mehrfort. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2006, pp. 181–205 (for AHvL see especially pp. 194–98)
• Olaf Neumann: Alexa Hennig von Lange , in Tigo Zeyen, Anne Weber-Ploemacher (ed.), Joachim Giesel (photos): 100 Hanoverian Heads , Hameln: CW Niemeyer Buchverlage, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8271-9251-6 and ISBN 3-8271-9251-X , pp. 82f.

Web links

Commons : Alexa Hennig von Lange  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Alexa Hennig von Lange in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author's website
• Bibliography of all titles in Rowohlt
• Short biography and reviews of works by Alexa Hennig von Lange at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olaf Neumann: Alexa Hennig von Lange , in Tigo Zeyen, Anne Weber-Ploemacher (ed.), Joachim Giesel (photos): 100 hannoversche Köpf , Hameln: CW Niemeyer Buchverlage, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8271-9251-6 and ISBN 3-8271-9251-X , pp. 82f.
2. ↑ Alexa Hennig von Lange in an interview . In: GALA . August 20, 2016 ( gala.de [accessed June 18, 2017]).
3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung, accessed on September 10, 2016