Anne C. Voorhoeve

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Anne Charlotte Voorhoeve (born December 19, 1963 in Bad Ems ) is a German screenwriter and writer.

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Anne Charlotte Voorhoeve attended the Reinhard-und-Max-Mannesmann-Gymnasium in Duisburg. She then studied political science, American studies and ancient history in Mainz . She then worked as an assistant at the University of Maryland for a year . After completing her traineeship in the editorial department of a medical journal, she worked as a publishing editor and in public relations. In 2000 she went freelance as a lecturer, and since 2005 she has devoted herself entirely to writing.

Her first work Lilly unter den Linden was initially written as a script and was filmed in 2002 by Leipziger Polyphon on behalf of MDR and ARTE . It was only published two years later as a novel, which was reprinted in 2006. The stage play Lilly unter den Linden was premiered in 2008 by the Junge Staatstheater Braunschweig (director: Mario Portmann). Further productions: Grips-Theater Berlin, Young State Theater Eisenach, DasDa Theater Aachen.

Voorhoeve takes up contemporary historical topics in her books: In Lilly unter den Linden she writes about the GDR . The story does not take place until 1988, but with a few exceptions, its portrayal of living and political circumstances is also valid for the GDR from 1961 onwards. The novel Liverpool Street (2007) describes the experiences of the eleven-year-old Jewish girl Ziska from Berlin, who came to London on a children's transport from Nazi Germany shortly before the start of the war , grew up in a foster family and seven years later had to make a difficult decision as to which family to join which country, which religion it actually belongs to. The novel Nanking Road (2013) is a what-if story about Liverpool Street : The same characters experience a completely different fate because of a single unsaid sentence from their mother to the Gestapo. In this book, Ziska does not travel to England alone, but fled into exile with her parents in Shanghai. In the novel Twenty-First of July (2008), Voorhoeve addresses the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 on Hitler and the subsequent kinship of the Stauffenberg family. In the radio play The White Raven (WDR 2012), the engineer and pilot Melitta Countess Stauffenberg, who worked for the Air Force and was probably an accessory to the assassination attempt on Hitler planned by her brother-in-law, is arrested and subjected to strict interrogation. Unterland (2012) is a novel about the post-war period in Germany. After the evacuation of her island, Alice from Helgoland tries to survive with her family in the destroyed Hamburg and at the same time not lose sight of the hope of returning home. The novel Kascha Nord-Nordost (2015, new edition 2018 under the title Kascha und der große Schnee ) tells of the historical snow catastrophe in northern and eastern Germany in 1978/79. In Voorhoeve's first children's book, Wir 7 vom Reuterkiez (2016), the residents of a neighborhood in Berlin-Neukölln threatened with gentrification defend themselves with ingenuity against an investor. With Companions Forever (2018), the author returns to the historical novel and describes the desperate attempt by East Prussian Trakehner breeders to save their horses from the approaching front towards the end of the Second World War.

Anne C. Voorhoeve lives in Berlin .

Works

  • Lilly under the lime trees , 2004
Harvest Peter October 2004
Bronzener Lufti in the 8th prize round
Shortlist of the German Youth Literature Award 2005
Buxtehuder Bull 2007
Recommended list of the Evangelical Book Prize 2008
  • July twenty-first , 2008
Read Peter June 2009
List of recommendations for the Friedrich Gerstäcker Prize 2009
  • Unterland , 2012
The Best 7 Books for Young Readers, March 2012
  • Nanking Road , 2013
Recommended Protestant Book Prize 2014
  • Kascha Nord-Nordost , 2015 Recommended list of the Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize 2016
  • We 7 from Reuterkiez , 2016
Leipzig Reading Compass 2017
  • Companions forever , 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne C. Voorhoeve: Lilly under the linden trees. Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 2004, 254 pages, ISBN 3-473-35251-9 , 2nd edition: 2006, 285 pages, ISBN 978-3-473-58228-0
  2. ^ NDR book presentation by Katharina Mahrenholtz ( Memento from February 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ The Best 7 Books for Young Readers , March 3, 2012
  4. ^ Recommended list of the Evangelical Book Prize 2014
  5. ↑ LEIPZIGER LESEKOMPASS 2017: These are the 30 best books for children and young people
personal data
SURNAME Voorhoeve, Anne C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voorhoeve, Anne Charlotte (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Ems