Corinne Hofmann

Corinne Hofmann (born June 4, 1960 in Frauenfeld , Canton Thurgau , Switzerland ) is a German businesswoman and book author. She became known in 1998 with her bestseller The White Maasai , in which she describes the experiences of her four-year marriage to a Samburu warrior in a rural area in Kenya .

Life

Hofmann was born to a French mother and a German father and grew up in Switzerland. After graduating from secondary school, she began training as a retail clerk and then worked for an insurance company for several years. At the age of 21, she started her own business and successfully built up a business for bridal wear and second-hand clothing.

A vacation brought her to Kenya for the first time in 1986. When she fell in love with a Samburu there, she decided in mid-1987 to move to Kenya. She married her lover and moved with him into the bush, where she lived from then on, far from western civilizations. Shortly after the marriage, their daughter Napirai was born. However, the difficult living conditions and cultural conflicts led to her separation from her husband after three years, and Hofmann returned to Switzerland.

She processed her experiences in the book The White Maasai , which was published in August 1998. Since then, it has sold more than three million copies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and it has been translated into 30 languages. In 2005, the German director Hermine Huntgeburth took on the material and filmed the book with Nina Hoss in the lead role. The film The White Massai became the most successful German film in 2005 with 2.5 million viewers.

In August 2003 Hofmann's second book, Back from Africa , was published, which also became a bestseller. With her third work, Wiedersehen in Barsaloi , she continued this success. In May 2011 appeared to Africa, my passion , the fourth book of the author. In it she describes life in the slums of Nairobi and the successes of aid organizations and initiatives in Kenya. The highlight of the work is the encounter of the daughter Napirai with her father and grandma after 20 years. Napirai's own descriptions flow into the book. In 2015 the new book of the "White Massai" was published: The girl with the giraffe neck tells about Corinne Hofmann's childhood in the Swiss provinces and how she became what she is today. Today Hofmann lives as a freelance writer in Lugano.

Works

• 1998: The white Maasai
• 2003: Back from Africa
• 2005: Reunion in Barsaloi ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from September 26th to November 13th and from November 28th to December 4th, 2005 )
• 2011: Africa, my passion
• 2015: The girl with the giraffe neck

Web links

• Publications by and about Corinne Hofmann in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Corinne Hofmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry about Corinne Hofmann in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Corinne Hofmann's website
• Corinne Hofmann on the A1 publishing house's homepage
• Homepage "Africa, my Passion"