Daniel Höra

Daniel Höra (* 1965 in Hanover ) is a German author who also used the pseudonym Daniel Knillmann .

He became known with his youth book Gedisst , after he wrote the novel Mora! had debuted.

In this novel he describes the everyday life of a young person who lives in an East German prefabricated housing estate and is suspected of murdering an old lady. Alex, the first-person narrator, is abandoned and bullied by all of his friends throughout the story . Since nobody believes that he is innocent, he tries on his own to catch the murderer. The book has a hard, to the hip-hop - jargon on ajar street language. Höra's protagonists are disaffected. Their everyday life is determined by drugs, violence and "hanging around".

In 2011, Höra's third novel The End of the World was published, a dystopian youth novel that deals with the future after a catastrophe . All order has been turned upside down, society is divided into castes, people are struggling to survive on a daily basis.

Höra lives with his family in Berlin .

Publications

• 2001: Mora! - Roman, Kowalke, Berlin
• 2009: Dissed. - Children's books, Bloomsbury Children's & Youth Books, Berlin. ISBN 978-3-8270-5361-9
• 2010: The End of the World - Youth Book, Bloomsbury Children's & Youth Books, Berlin. ISBN 978-3-8270-5438-8
• 2012: Braune Erde - youth book, bloomsbury taschenbuch, Berlin. ISBN 978-3-8333-5099-3
• 2015: The fate of the stars - youth book, Munich. ISBN 978-3-8458-0758-4
• 2015: After you - youth book, Berlin. ISBN 978-3-551-31353-9
• 2018: Kill you! - Youth book, Hamburg. ISBN 978-3-551-31659-2
• 2019: Keep your head down, hold out - youth book, Hamburg. ISBN 978-3-551-31789-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Daniel Höra in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on Daniel Höra's work at Literaturport
• Author's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DNB