Eleonora Hummel

Eleonora Hummel (born December 31, 1970 in Zelinograd , Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union ) is a German writer .

Life

Lübeck Literature Meeting 2013
v. l. To the right: Fridolin Schley , Norbert Niemann , Tilman Spengler , Eleonora Hummel, Sherko Fatah

Eleonora Hummel comes from a family of Russian Germans who had been deported to Soviet Kazakhstan . Although the older generation in her family still spoke German , Eleonora Hummel grew up with Russian as her mother tongue . A first attempt by the family to move to the Federal Republic of Germany failed in 1976 after a year-long stay in the GDR . In 1980 the Hummel family moved to the North Caucasus ; In 1982 she made the second attempt to travel to the Federal Republic of Germany. Again, the Soviet authorities only allowed her to move to the GDR. The family settled in Dresden , where Eleonora Hummel attended school and learned German. After graduating from school, she completed an apprenticeship as a physics laboratory assistant and then another training as a foreign language correspondent for English and Spanish . She works in the secretariat of the Institute for International Law and European Law at the Technical University of Dresden . She is married and has two kids.

Hummel began writing narrative prose in the mid-1990s . Her work has been published in various literary magazines. Her debut novel was published in 2005, in which she processed the history of her family's relocation to Germany.

Works

• The fish of Berlin , Göttingen 2005.
• Venus in the window , Göttingen 2009.
• In good hands, in a beautiful country , Steidl, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86930-662-9 .
• Die Wandelbaren , Roman, müry salzmann, Salzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-99014-196-0 .

Prizes and awards (selection)

• 2002: Russian-German Culture Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg
• 2003: Scholarship from the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation
• 2005: Working grant from the Cultural Foundation of Saxony
• 2006: Sponsorship award for the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
• 2011: Hohenems Literature Prize
• 2017: Swabian Literature Prize

Web links

Commons : Eleonora Hummel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Eleonora Hummel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Eleonora Hummel
• Short biography and information on the work of Eleonora Hummel at Literaturport
• Excerpts from The Fish of Berlin and The Venus in the Window read in by Hummel