Franziska Hauser

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Franziska Hauser, 2014

Franziska Hauser (born February 9, 1975 in Berlin ) is a German author and photographer .

life and work

Franziska Hauser was born in 1975 in Berlin-Pankow as the daughter of a puppeteer and a documentary film director and granddaughter of the writer Harald Hauser . She studied stage design and fine art at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art and worked as an assistant set designer at the Berliner Ensemble . On the side she worked as a joke article seller in the Chameleon vaudeville . In 2003 she received a grant from the Kulturfonds Foundation for her photographic work. She began to study photography at the private school photography on Schiffbauerdamm (fas) with Arno Fischer , whose archive she restored for years. She also worked as a self-defense trainer in elementary schools. She took photos for Thomas Martin's “Berlinische Leben” column in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and worked on his film about Arno Fischer “Leben im Bild”. For her restoration work, she was temporarily employed by the Institute for Foreign Relations .

She has been taking photos for Das Magazin since 2008 and also began to write texts for it. She has been a freelancer since 2014. Further texts appeared u. a. in Berliner Zeitung , Die Welt , Brigitte , Nido and Maxi . Regardless of their texts, their photos were published in Zeit Wissen , Nido u. a. printed. In addition to numerous photo exhibitions in Berlin, there were also exhibitions at the Goethe-Institut Turin and “Les Subsistances” in Lyon .

In spring 2015 Hauser's debut novel “Sommerdreieck” was published by Rowohlt Verlag . She published the photo book “Seven Years of Luxury” at Kehrer Verlag , which she was able to finance through crowdfunding. In 2015, Hauser received the debut award from lit. Cologne (“Silver Pig Prize”) and was nominated for the ZDF aspekte literature prize. The photo book was shortlisted for the PHotoEspaña Book Award 2015. In 2018, her second novel Die Gewitterschwimmerin made the long list of the German Book Prize .

Hauser lives in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. She has a son (* 2000) and a daughter (* 2005).

Publications (selection)

  • The glass sisters. Novel. Eichborn Verlag, 2020
  • The thunderstorm swimmer . Novel. Eichborn Verlag, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-8479-0644-5
  • Summer triangle . Novel. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2015, ISBN 978-3-498-02833-6 .
  • Seven years of luxury . Illustrated book. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86828-599-4 (German, English).
  • I tick off the eros , in: Literary World , May 2, 2015, p. 5
  • Matthias Jügler (ed.): How we want to live. Texts for solidarity and freedom. Anthology. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-46710-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.pnn.de/kultur/interview-mit-autorin-franziska-hauser-zu-die-gewitterschwimmerin-buchpreis-nominierung-aha-die-kann-ja-reallich-was/23199682.html
  2. ↑ Home. Retrieved July 1, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hauser, Franziska
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin