Christine Hoba

Christine Hoba (* 1961 in Magdeburg ) is a German author of books and radio plays.

Life

She has lived in Halle since 1979 . After studying chemistry, she trained as a bookseller and library assistant. She is the mother of a daughter. Currently working in a scientific library. Since 2001 she has been a member of the support group for writers in Saxony-Anhalt and in the Halle poet group . Areas of work: poetry, prose, children's literature. Hoba has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 2017 .

Awards

• 2002 MDR Literature Prize
• 2003 Certificate of Appreciation from the Ms. Ava Society for Literature
• 2006 Working grant from the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation
• 2010/2011 City Clerk of Halle (Saale)
• 2013 residency at the Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop
• 2015 working grant from the Art Foundation Saxony-Anhalt

Works

• Das Rad , radio play, GDR radio, first broadcast in 1989
• Die Salzstadt , children's book, Mitteldeutscher Verlag , Halle 1999
• Spiegelkabinett , prose, Verlag Janos Stekovics, Halle, 2001
• the metal remains of angels , poems, original graphic book with woodcuts by Andreas Kramer, Berlin / Venice, 2001
• In the Lufthaus , poems, Mitteldeutscher Verlag , Halle, 2005
• The absence: an investigation , novel, Mitteldeutscher Verlag , Halle, 2006
• Rabea und die Windreisenden , radio play for children, (world premiere, 2nd icebreaker days , Halle, 2010)
• The forest walkers , novel, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle, autumn 2010
• Stupid August and Columbine, poems, together with Christian Kreis, Fixpoetry.Verlag, Hamburg, 2012
• "Die Nelkenfalle", novel, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle, December 2012
• "The sound of the bells over the sea: small fantastic stories", Mitteldeutscher Verlag , Halle, 2014

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

• Michael Hametner (ed.). Antigone's brother , Faber & Faber, Leipzig, 2003
• Ralph Grüneberger (ed.) / Society for Contemporary Poetry . New poetry album . Issues 1/2009, 1/2012.
• Doris Allhutter (ed.). "Scattering Patterns", Promedia, Vienna, 2014

Web links

• Literature by and about Christine Hoba in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christine Hoba is Halle's new town clerk
• Christine Hoba at poetenladen.de