Franz Hodjak

Franz Hodjak (born September 27, 1944 in Hermannstadt (Romanian: Sibiu), Romania ) is a German writer .

life and work

Franz Hodjak studied German and Romance languages ​​in Klausenburg , where he was editor at Dacia Verlag from 1970 to 1992. In 1982 he received a scholarship as city clerk of Mannheim, in 2002 he became city clerk of Dresden. Franz Hodjak moved to Germany in 1992 and was a lecturer at the Frankfurt Poetics Lecture in 1993. He has received numerous scholarships, most recently in 2006 from the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art and in 2007 a scholarship in the Herrenhaus Edenkoben.

Hodjak writes poetry and prose and translates from Romanian. Between 1970 and 1989 he published 20 books, including prose, poetry and children's books. Hodjak's poems have been translated into Romanian and Hungarian.

Franz Hodjak lives in Usingen in the Taunus .

Works

• The thought of kidnapping me arose. Poems . With lithographs by Hubertus Giebe. Typostudio Schumacher-Gebler, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-941209-28-2 .
• The one we want to be is already taken. Aphorisms, notations & an essay. Afterword by Alexander Eilers. Litblockin publishing house, Fernwald 2013, ISBN 978-3-923915-05-7 .
• The fascination of a day that doesn't exist . Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist, 2009, ISBN 978-3-941037-04-5 .
• A suitcase full of sand . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2003, ISBN 3-518-41394-5 .
• The singers' dispute . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-41124-1 .
• Arrival subjunctive . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-518-40905-0 .
• Landmarks . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1995, ISBN 3-518-40688-4 .
• Loss of land . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-518-40548-9 .
• Franz, story collector . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-11698-3 .
• Payday , Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-518-40381-8 .
• Transylvanian speaking exercise . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-518-11622-3 .
• Longing for fig brandy . Montage-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1988.
• air change . Kriterion Verlag, Bucharest 1988.
• Peaceful round. Prose . Kriterion, Bucharest 1987.
• Fridolin hatches from the egg (children's book). Kriterion, Bucharest 1986.
• Eyesight . Kriterion, Bucharest 1986.
• The dog Joho (children's book). Criterion, Bucharest 1985.
• At a corner table . Kriterion, Bucharest 1984.
• lilac in the ear . Kriterion, Bucharest 1983.
• Polly Knall speaks about things that are taken for granted as if they were taken for granted . Kriterion, Bucharest 1979.
• The humorous cats. Children's verses . Kriterion, Bucharest 1979.
• the size of the heads. semi-fantastic texts . Kriterion, Bucharest 1978.
• open letters . Kriterion, Bucharest 1976.
• Leeway. Poems & Ideas , Kriterion, Bucharest 1974.
• Wasteland. Poems , Dacia-Verlag, Klausenburg 1970.

Awards

• 1982 City clerk grant from the city of Mannheim
• 1990 Georg Maurer Prize Leipzig
• 1990 Prize of the State of Carinthia at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
• 1991 literary advancement award of the cultural group in the BDI
• 1992 gift of honor for the Andreas Gryphius Prize
• 1993 Frankfurt poetics lectures
• 1995 City clerk grant in Minden
• 1996 Nikolaus Lenau Prize from the Esslingen Artists' Guild
• 1997 Scholarship from the Heinrich-Heine-Haus in Lüneburg
• 1998 Scholarship from the Calw Hermann Hesse Foundation
• 2002 Dresden city clerk
• 2005 Kester Haeusler honorary gift from the German Schiller Foundation
• 2013 Transylvanian-Saxon Culture Prize

literature

• Réka Sánta-Jakabházi: Constructed identities in the work of Franz Hodjak. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-63956-6 .
• Walter Myß (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Transylvanian Saxony. Wort und Welt Verlag, Innsbruck 1993, ISBN 3-85373-140-6 .
• E. Reicharth (ed.): Reflexe, critical contributions to Romanian German contemporary literature. Kriterion, Bucharest 1977.

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Hodjak in the catalog of the German National Library