Christof Hamann

This article deals with the writer and Germanist Christof Hamann; on the historian and history educator see Christoph Hamann .

Christof Hamann (born July 4, 1966 in Überlingen ) is a German writer and Germanist.

Life

After two years mentally and physically disabled children in Philadelphia ( Pennsylvania had supervised), Christof Hamann began at the University of Freiburg / Breisgau , a study of German language and literature , sociology , philosophy and history , which he in Berlin continued. In 2001 he received his doctorate in philology from the University of Essen with a thesis on New York in contemporary German literature . He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Dortmund ; in addition, he contributed to various magazines. In 2003 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt , was a research assistant at the Chair of Modern German Literature at the University of Bamberg from 2007–2008 and then took up a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wuppertal . He holds a professorship for modern German literary studies and literary didactics at the University of Cologne . Hamann lives with his wife in Cologne .

Since 2001, Christof Hamann has published primarily literary texts in addition to academic papers.

Christof Hamann received a. a. The following awards: 2001 a scholarship from the Foundation for Cultural Exchange Netherlands-Germany and a scholarship from the Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg , in 2002 a scholarship from the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop and the sponsorship award from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and in 2003 the debut award from the Buddenbrookhaus in Lübeck .

Works

• Keyword Federal Republic of Germany , Munich 1992 (together with Christian Füller )
• Limits of the Metropolis , Wiesbaden 2001
• Seegfrörne , Göttingen 2001
• Fester , Göttingen 2003
• Usambara , Göttingen 2007
• Warsaw Lapidarium , Düsseldorf 2007 (together with Susanne Catrein)
• Kilimanjaro. The German history of an African mountain , Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2011 (with Alexander Honold) ISBN 978-3-803-13634-3 .
• Just one step to the birds , Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86930-464-9 .

Editing

• Ideology after its "end" , Opladen 1995 (together with Hansjörg Bay)
• "I set up the building and it seems to have worked well," Iserlohn 2001
• The funny thing with the bike , Essen 2001
• Spaces of hybridity , Hildesheim [u. a.] 2003 (together with Cornelia Sieber)
• Hic sunt leones , language in the technical age 168 / December 2003 (together with Steffen Richter)
• Grotesque reversals , Essen 2004
• Africa - Culture and Violence , Iserlohn 2005
• Odradeks Lachen , Freiburg i.Br. [u. a.] 2006 (together with Hansjörg Bay)
• Literature and Migration , Munich 2006
• Hermann Kinder , Eggingen 2008

Web links

• Literature by and about Christof Hamann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christof Hamann at the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
• Christof Hamann at the 2003 Bachmann Prize

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Review of Usambara trip to Kilimanjaro on Deutschlandfunk from October 22, 2007.
2. ↑ Review of Just a Step to the Birds Ice Saints as Escape Helpers on Deutschlandfunk from June 13, 2012.