Dörte Hansen

Dörte Hansen at the Frankfurt Book Fair  2018

Dörte Hansen (today Dörte Hansen-Jaax; * 1964 in Husum ) is a German linguist, journalist and writer .

Life

Dörte Hansen grew up in Högel in what is now the Amt of Central North Friesland , and Low German was spoken at home . She learned her “first foreign language”, High German, in elementary school.

After graduating from high school in 1984, she studied sociolinguistics , English , Romance studies and Frisian studies at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1994 Hansen received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg with a sociolinguistic thesis on a special form of bilingualism .

Dörte Hansen is married to the documentary film director Sven Jaax and has a daughter. From 2005 she lived with her family in Steinkirchen (Altes Land) and since 2016 again in Husum.

Act

After an internship at Merian magazine , she worked as a journalist for several radio stations ( NDR , WDR , SWR , hr , DLF ) and various magazines until 2008 , and then as a permanent culture editor at NDR Info until 2012 . Since then she has been working as a freelance writer.

In her first novel Altes Land (2015) Dörte Hansen dealt critically with the topic of home : Many city dwellers discovered the country as a place of longing for home and moved to the village. In their opinion, however, they are mistaken because they only play country life and do “peasant theater”. She links this topic with the fate of the female main character as a homeless post-war refugee from East Prussia in the Altes Land . The book became a bestseller and received critical acclaim.

The second novel Mittagsstunde (2018) also received a lot of critical praise and explores German village life. It describes the cultural and interpersonal change in the fictional North Frisian street village “Brinkebüll” from the 1960s to the present day. The author manages without idyllic country life and draws the often “bizarre characters with a lot of empathy” in laconic language.

Memberships

• PEN Center Germany

Awards

• 2006: Media award from the “Children's Rights in One World” foundation in the radio category for their NDR report Der Hamburger Kompass - Help for children with alcoholic parents
• 2015: Favorite book of the year for the independent book trade for Altes Land
• 2016: Usedomer Literature Prize for Altes Land
• 2019: Rheingau Literature Prize for lunch hour
• 2019: Low German Literature Prize of the City of Kappeln
• 2019: Grimmelshausen Literature Prize for lunch hour

Publications (selection)

• Tou latje taäle. In: Nils Århammar , Christina Tadsen, Ommo Wilts (eds.): Skriiw fresk, Schriw frasch, Skriiv friisk. Teksten tu a fresk literatüürweedstridj 1989/90 . Nordfriisk Instituut , Bräist / Bredstedt NF 1993, ISBN 3-88007-205-1 .
• Transfer in case of diglossia . Synchronous language contact phenomena in Low German. Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-86064-292-8 (also dissertation University of Hamburg).
• “Red blood sticks to white milk!” - Pastor Skriver's vegan utopia . In: Nordfriisk Instituut (Ed.): Nordfriesland No. 164, Bräist / Bredstedt NF, December 2008, ISSN  0029-1196 .
• Don't be afraid of the family counselor. Report. In: Chrismon , December 2009.
• Old country. Roman, Knaus, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8135-0647-1 . ( Number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from June 20 to July 31 and from August 8 to September 4, 2015 )
  • Old country. Audiobook, abridged reading by Hannelore Hoger , 4 CD, approx. 5 hours 13 min., Random House Audio, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8371-3089-8 .
  • Old country. Radio play based on motifs from the book, adaptation and direction Wolfgang Seesko , Radio Bremen 2016.
• Lunchtime. Roman, Penguin Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-328-60003-9 .
  • Lunchtime. Audiobook, unabridged reading by Hannelore Hoger , 11 hours and 31 minutes, Random House Audio, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8371-4278-5 .

Web links

Commons : Dörte Hansen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Dörte Hansen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Dörte Hansen at perlentaucher.de
• Review of Altes Land on the website of the Goethe Institute
• Figure encyclopedias for Dörte Hansen's novels Altes Land and Mittagsstunde in the portal Literaturlexikon online .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Vita in Nordfriesland No. 164, p. 18
2. ↑ ^{a b c} 2 after 1: Dörte Hansen. Bestselling author. (No longer available online.) In: RadioBremen.de . July 29, 2015, archived from the original on April 1, 2016 ; accessed on February 8, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Vita in Chrismon , March 2017, p. 14 aE
4. ↑ Literature - bestselling author Dörte Hansen surfs the wave , on focus.de from July 30, 2015
5. ↑ Press release: Dörte Hansen receives Usedomer Literature Prize 2016 , Usedomer Literature Days 2016, accessed on August 22, 2017
6. ↑ Denis Scheck comments on the top ten on daserste.de, hot off the press from April 13, 2015
7. ↑ see e.g. B. Pearl Divers
8. ^ Rainer Moritz: The comeback of the village novel: Dörte Hansen's "Mittagsstunde" , review in the MDR of October 16, 2018, accessed November 5, 2018
9. ↑ The winners of the Children's Rights Media Prize 2006 have been announced - the Kindernothilfe Foundation awards five journalists in Berlin , on presseportal.de on November 12, 2006
10. ^ Election victory for "Altes Land" by Dörte Hansen , on boersenblatt.net from October 16, 2015
11. ↑ Low German Literature Prize of the City of Kappeln. In: kappeln.de. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
12. ↑ Grimmelshausen Prize 2019: The winners have been announced. In: gelnhausen.de. Accessed December 4th.
13. ↑ Don't be afraid of the family counselor , from chrismon.evangelisch.de, accessed on August 22, 2017