Axel Hoe

Axel Hacke at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017

Axel Hacke (born January 20, 1956 in Braunschweig ) is a German journalist and writer .

Life

Axel Hacke grew up in his native Braunschweig, where he was politically active with the young democrats in his youth . In his childhood he carried out the Protestant church newspaper, his parents believed he would be a pastor. After graduating from high school at Wilhelm-Gymnasium and doing military service, Hacke began studying in Göttingen in 1976 , but soon moved on to Munich , where he attended the German School of Journalism and studied political science.

From 1981 to 2000 he worked as an editor for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , initially for four years as a sports reporter, then as a political commentator, but above all as one of the authors of the “ Streiflicht ” on the first page of the SZ and as the author of many reports on the SZ Three of the sheet. He reported, wrote portraits (for example of the fashion designer Wolfgang Joop ), reported on everyday political life in Bonn and Berlin as well as on the transition period in the GDR and the new federal states and was a correspondent at many Olympic Games and soccer world championships.

He has been a freelance columnist and writer since 2000.

plant

In 1991 his first book Nights with Bosch was published , an anthology of short stories, reports and glosses, the cover story of which featured one of Hacke's most famous characters for the first time, the Bosch talking refrigerator. As early as 1990, Hacke published his first column, Der kleine Erziehungsberater, stories from the everyday life of a family with three small children, in the SZ magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung (which was founded in the same year) . The collected texts published in 1992 under the same title in book form, have since sold more than one million copies and had two years on the SPIEGEL - bestseller list . Since then, countless books and columns on the subject of education have been published based on this model. "Hacke has done something similar for the written down paternity as Wolfram Siebeck has done for the written down gourmet", wrote ZEIT columnist Harald Martenstein .

Reading 2009
(Munich Lustspielhaus)

Since then, Hacke has published numerous books for both children and adults, many of which were illustrated by the Berlin painter Michael Sowa . At the same time, from 2001 to 2007 he wrote a weekly column under the title And what am I doing now in the Sunday edition of the Berliner Tagesspiegel as well as his stories like you and me on Bayerischer Rundfunk . His column The Best of My Life achieved great fame , in which he has been describing "his" life as a man every Friday in SZ magazine since 1997 , surrounded by everyday life, women and children and Bosch, the talking refrigerator. The best of my life was the basis for an eight-part ARD television series with Oliver Mommsen and Elena Uhlig in 2007 and was replaced by the current column The Best from All Over the World in SZ-Magazin at the beginning of August 2008 .

In 2004 one of Hacke's most successful books, The White Negro Wumbaba, was published . In it he deals with the subject of “ misunderstood song texts ” in an amusing way, the title of the book going back to an interrogator, Matthias Claudius ' famous evening song, in which it says: “The forest is black and silent / and rises from the meadows / The white fog wonderful. ”The last verse was misunderstood here as“ The white negro Wumbaba ”. A second book on this subject was published in 2007 under the title The White Negro Wumbaba Returns, and a third in 2009 under the title Wumbaba's Legacy . In 2017, Axel Hacke succeeded with On decency in difficult times and the question of how we treat each other, a bestseller that was number 1 in the non-fiction books of the magazine Der Spiegel at the end of 2017 . Hacke's books have so far been translated into 17 languages. Some, for example Little King December , were bestsellers in Japan too.

Hacke is married to the singer and screenwriter Ursula Mauder . He has four children and lives with his family in Munich and the Chiemgau.

The Columnist Manifesto
Parktheater May 2015

At his numerous readings, Axel Hacke only decides in the course of the evening which texts to present, because his principle is to bring the largest possible cross-section of his texts onto the stage. The most recently published book is one of the focal points. His appearances take him on stages throughout the German-speaking area. During the Advent season, it appears again under the title All Years .

Publications

Many of his books have also been released into audio books and live recordings on CDs .

• Nights with Bosch. 18 unlikely true stories. Kunstmann, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-88897-050-4 .
• The little educational advisor. illustrated by Marcus Herrenberger , Kunstmann, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-88897-056-3 .
• The little king of December. Illustrations by Michael Sowa. Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-88897-076-8 .
• The Streiflichtbuch. Handouts and pointers from the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Edited by Axel Hacke et al. 1994, ISBN 3-88897-084-9 .
• Hackes animal life. Pictures by Michael Sowa, Kunstmann, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-88897-153-5 .
• I've always told you guys. My everyday life as a man. 1998 (summary of articles in the SZ column), ISBN 3-88897-201-9
• Nobody listens to me. 1999 (summary of articles in the SZ column), ISBN 3-88897-222-1 .
• The new light book. Head nuts and kisses of the muse from the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Edited by Axel Hacke et al. 2000, ISBN 3-88897-236-1 .
• Hackes little animal life. Pictures by Michael Sowa, Kunstmann, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-88897-237-9 .
• I'll tell you for the last time now. Summary of articles in the SZ column, 2000, ISBN 3-88897-247-7 .
• A bear named Sonntag. 2001, ISBN 3-88897-281-7 .
• The best of my life My everyday life as a man. Selection of articles from the SZ column. 2003, ISBN 3-88897-324-4 .
• Germany album. 2004, ISBN 3-88897-347-3 .
• The white negro Wumbaba. Small handbook of interrogation. Kunstmann, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88897-367-8 .
• Prálinek. A Christmas Story. 2005, ISBN 3-88897-406-2 .
• A bear named Sonntag. 2006, ISBN 3-88897-432-1 .
• The white negro Wumbaba returns. Second handbook of interrogation. 2007, ISBN 3-88897-467-4 .
• Wortstoffhof. Language stories from uh to time slot. 2008, ISBN 978-3-88897-508-0 .
• Wumbaba's legacy. Third handbook of interrogation. 2009, ISBN 978-3-88897-555-4 .
• Every year again. A Christmas book. 2009, ISBN 978-3-88897-583-7 , together with the screenwriter and singer Ursula Mauder also as a CD with Christmas carols ISBN 978-3-88897-590-5 .
• together with Giovanni di Lorenzo : What do you stand for? What is important in our life - A search. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-462-04241-2 . ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from February 7th to February 13th 2011 )
• with Ursula Mauder, Sven Faller , Paulo Morello : The best of my love life. Stories and songs about love in good and bad days , Kunstmann, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-88897-743-5 .
• Colonel von Huhn invites you to table. Dining German for beginners. Drawings by Dirk Schmidt. Kunstmann, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-88897-779-4 .
• Football feelings , Kunstmann Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-88897-933-0 ; also as an audio book , spoken by Axel Hacke. ISBN 978-3-88897-946-0 .
• The columnist manifesto: The best of 1001 columns , illustrated by Dirk Schmidt. Kunstmann, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-95614-026-6 .
• The days I spent with God illustrated by Michael Sowa . Kunstmann, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-95614-118-8 .
• About decency in difficult times and the question of how we treat each other . Kunstmann, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-95614-200-0 .
• What we are here for. Walter Wemut's handouts for a successful life. Kunstmann, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-95614-313-7 .

Awards

• 1987: Joseph Roth Prize
• 1990: Theodor Wolff Prize
• 1987, 1990: Egon Erwin Kisch Prize
• 1996: Children's radio play award from the MDR
• 1997: Ernst Hoferichter Prize
• 2011: International Corine Literature Prize (audio book category) with Ursula Mauder for the best of my love life. Stories and songs about love in good and bad days
• 2019: Ben Witter Prize

literature

• Stefan Golisch: "If that is not progress." Author Axel Hacke on his new book and the need for decency in difficult times , in: Neue Presse from September 26, 2017, p. 22

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Axel Hacke: The best from all over the world. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , 39/2009, September 25, 2009.
2. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ onetz.de: About decency in difficult times

Web links

Commons : Axel Hacke  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Axel Hacke  - Quotes

• Axel Hacke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Axel Hacke in the catalog of the German National Library
• axel-hacke.de Website of Axel Hacke
• Axel Hacke in: What is decency? ARD-Mediathek, October 10, 2017, accessed on February 21, 2018 . 
• In an interview with Jörg Steinleitner, buchSzene 1/2003