Charlotte Kerner

Charlotte Kerner (born November 12, 1950 in Speyer ) is a German writer and journalist .

Life

Charlotte Kerner spent her childhood and youth in Speyer. After studying economics and sociology in Mannheim , she first worked on an urban sociology research project; this was followed by one-year study visits to Canada and the People's Republic of China . Her experiences there prompted her in 1980 to write her first book on the position of women and girls in China. As a journalist she worked a. a. for GEO-Wissen , Die Zeit and Emma , as a press officer she worked for Jugend forscht .

In her novels, she continues to deal with current scientific topics, particularly biomedicine, genetic engineering and anthropology. In these books, as well as in the biographies, she primarily explores women's lives psychologically, with natural scientists often the focus.

In 1987 she received the German Youth Literature Prize ( non-fiction category ) for the first time for her biography Lise, a nuclear physicist. The life story of Lise Meitner and then 13 years later, in 2000, in the youth book category, the state award for the science fiction Blueprint - Blueprint, which was filmed in 2004 with Franka Potente in the leading role. The novel, which was published in thirteen languages, accompanied Kerner on many reading tours - also at the invitation of the Gothe Institute -u .a. to Denmark, France and Israel, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan as well as the USA and Israel.

In 2012 the author spent three months in the People's Republic of China and taught Chinese German students at various universities as a short-term lecturer at the DAAD .

Today Charlotte Kerner lives with her family in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck and at times also in Pollensa, on the Balearic island of Mallorca.

Works

Novels

• Born 1999. A future story , Belz, Weinheim 1989, ISBN 3-407-80685-X .
• Blueprint . Roman , Weinheim 1999, ISBN 978-3-407-74102-8 .
  • Zao plod: plava kopija , Znanje, Zagreb 2003 ( Croatian ).
  • Kopija , Učila, Tržič 2001 ( Slovenian ).
• Headless. Novel about a scientific experiment , Piper, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-27146-2 .
• Jane reloaded , Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 2011, 214 pp. ISBN 978-3-407-81092-2

Non-fiction; Biographies

• with Ann-Kathrin Scheerer: Jade Pearl and Great Courage. Chinese women between yesterday and tomorrow , Maier , Ravensburg 1980, ISBN 3-473-35221-7 .
• Lise, nuclear physicist. The life story of Lise Meitner , Beltz & Gelberg , Weinheim / Basel 1986, ISBN 3-407-80664-7 .
  • Lise Meitnerová , Academia, Prague 2009 ( Czech ).
• Silkworm, jungle blossom. The life story of Maria Sibylla Merian , Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim 1988, ISBN 3-407-80675-2 .
• All the beauty of heaven. The life story of Hildegard von Bingen , Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim 1993
• The nonconformist. The life story of designer and architect Eileen Gray , Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim 2002, ISBN 978-3-492-27146-2 .
• Red sun, red tiger - rebel and tyrant. The life story of Mao Zedong , Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-407-81196-7

Travel and photo book

with the photographer Anna Doehring

• Sehnsuchtsfels Mallorca - Portrait of an island, Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8030-3379-6

Editing

• Having children. A thought book. Belz, Weinheim / Basel 1985, ISBN 3-407-80654-X .
• Not only Madame Curie ... women who the Nobel Prize received , Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim, 1990, ISBN 3-407-80691-4 .
• Madame Curie and her sisters. Women who got the Nobel Prize. Belz, Weinheim / Basel 1997, ISBN 3-407-80845-3 .
• Star flight and sun fire. Portraits of the astronomers Maria Cunitz , Caroline Herschel and Maria Mitchell . Weinheim 2004
• The next generation. Science + fiction. Belz, Weinheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-407-75346-5 .
• The Fantastic 6. The life stories of Mary Shelley , Bram Stoker , JRR Tolkien , Stanislaw Lem , Philip K. Dick , Stephen King . Beltz, Weinheim / Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-407-81070-0 .

Film adaptations

• 1992: Born 1999 (TV film), director: Kai Wessel , screenplay: Beate Langmaack
• 2004: Blueprint , director: Rolf Schübel , screenplay: Claus Cornelius Fischer

Awards

• 1979: 1st prize "Reporter of Science"
• 1987: German youth literature award for Lise, atomic physicist. The life story of Lise Meitner
• 1997: GEDOK Literature Prize
• 2000: German Youth Literature Prize for Blueprint

literature

• Nadine Emmerling: Born in 1999 in class: Teachers' handout for the youth novel by Charlotte Kerner (grade 8 - 13, all types of schools); thematic aspects reproductive medicine (cloning), ethics, responsibility, identity. Beltz, Weinheim; Basel 2008. ISBN 978-3-407-62624-0 .
• Gerald Merkel: Blueprint in the classroom: Teacher's handout for the youth novel by Charlotte Kerner (grades 8-12); thematic aspects cloning, mother-daughter relationships, self-discovery, human dignity. Beltz, Weinheim; Basel 2012. ISBN 978-3-407-62704-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Charlotte Kerner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Charlotte Kerner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Charlotte Kerner in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Charlotte Kerner at Open Library
• Author's homepage from Charlotte Kerner

Individual references, footnotes

1. ^ Biography of Charlotte Kerner. In: charlottekerner.de. Retrieved October 18, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Review by Sylvia Schwab in Deutschlandradio Kultur on January 10, 2012: "In love with a prehistoric man" Charlotte Kerner: "Jane reloaded"