Anna Katharina Hahn

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Anna Katharina Hahn at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

Anna Katharina Hahn (born October 20, 1970 in Ruit auf den Fildern ) is a German writer .

life and work

Anna Katharina Hahn, May 2020

After graduating from high school in Stuttgart in 1990, Anna Katharina Hahn began studying German , English and folklore at the University of Hamburg , which she completed in 1995 with a master's degree. From 1996 to 2001 she worked as a research assistant in the German Bible Archive and in the manuscript department of the Hamburg State and University Library . In addition to scientific publications on late medieval history Bibles, she published literary texts in magazines and anthologies as well as two volumes of short stories. In 2004 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt . In 2009 her first novel Shorter Days was published. After her novel Am Schwarzen Berg, which plays with motifs by Eduard Mörike , and her novel The Dress of My Mother (2016), which deals with the effects of the economic crisis in Spain, the family novel Aus und vom was published in 2020 , which deals with the distribution of care work between women and men.

She is a member of the PEN Center Germany and now lives with her family in Stuttgart ; her husband is Jan Bürger from the Marbach Literature Archive.

Awards

Works

  • Ed .: Historienbibel. Munich 1997.
  • Codex 8 in Scrinio of the Hamburg State and University Library. Hamburg 1995.
  • Summer slump. Stories. Hamburg 2000.
  • Peculiar offense. Stories. Frankfurt am Main 2004.
  • Shorter days. Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-42057-7 .
  • On the Black Mountain. Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-42282-3 .
  • My mother's dress. Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-42516-9 .
  • Out and away . Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-518-42919-8 .

Web links

Commons : Anna Katharina Hahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Süddeutsche Zeitung: Divorce in Swabian. Retrieved July 5, 2020 .
  2. Scholarship archive of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg , accessed on April 18, 2019
  3. ^ Roswitha Prize for Anna Katharina Hahn. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine . September 8, 2010, accessed October 12, 2019 .
  4. Anna Katharina Hahn becomes the new Mainz city clerk In: Allgemeine-zeitung.de , accessed on September 16, 2018
  5. Discussion of "Shorter Days". In: pearl diver; accessed on May 26, 2017.
  6. Sebastian Hammelehle: Anna Katharina Hahn's “On the Black Mountain”: The catastrophe lurks behind the mirabelle tree. Spiegel Online , March 13, 2012; Review; accessed June 20, 2014
  7. Stuttgarter Zeitung : Book tip: Anna Katharina Hahn, “Aus und vom”: Swabian style family goulash. Accessed on May 15, 2020 .
  8. ^ Paul Jandl: Anna Katharina Hahn tells a generational novel . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed on May 19, 2020]).