Gregor Hens

Gregor Hens (born November 25, 1965 in Cologne ) is a German writer , translator and Germanist .

Life

Gregor Hens grew up in Cologne and attended the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck in Goch from 1976 to 1985 . He studied English , German and linguistics at the University of Bonn and in the United States . In 1995 he received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley with a thesis on the construction grammar of German.

Hens, who taught at Ohio State University in Columbus from 1995 to 2012 , has lived in Berlin since 2013. In addition to his writing, he also works as a translator.

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Alienation and ambivalence are among Hens' favorite themes. In his 2011 book Nicotine, a mixture of essay and adolescence story, he describes the traumatic experience of alienation from his own father. The novel Missouri was published in 2019 , in which Hens describes the experience of alienation as a typical generation symptom.

Publications

prose

• Skyfall. Novel. Goldmann / btb, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-442-75081-4 .
• Transfer lounge. German-American stories. marebuchverlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-936384-04-5 . (= marebibliothek. 5.)
• Matta leaves his children. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-10-032581-8 .
• In this new light. Novel. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-10-032580-X .
• Nicotine. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-032583-9 .
• Missouri. Novel. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-351-03758-1 .

Translations

• Marlon Brando et al. Donald Cammell : Madame Lai. Novel. Edited and with an afterword by David Thomson . Preface by Truman Capote . Introduction of China Kong . Marebuchverlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86648-058-2 .
• Rawi Hage : As if there was no tomorrow. Novel. DuMont, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-8321-8097-3 .
• Leonard Cohen : The Favorite Game. Novel. Blumenbar, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-936738-59-9 .
• Stephen Elliot : My friend is coming to town. Arche-Literatur-Verlag, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7160-2637-3 .
• Carol Bruneau : Glass parts. Novel. Mare, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86648-121-3 .
• Rawi Hage: Cockroach. Novel. Piper, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-05379-2 .
• David Ballantyne : Sydney Bridge Upside Down. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-455-40372-5 .
• Jonathan Lethem : Confessions of a Stacker. Memoirs in Fragments. Tropics at Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-608-50318-0 .
• George Packer : The Settlement: An Inner Story of the New America. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-000157-3 .
• Will Self : umbrella. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-455-40462-3 .
• Kurt Vonnegut : Schlachthof 5 or The Children's Crusade . Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-455-40555-2 .

science

• Thomas Bernhard's trilogy of arts: The loser, felling wood, old masters. Camden House, Rochester, NY, 1999, ISBN 1-57113-038-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gregor Hens in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of Gregor Hens
• Short biography and reviews of works by Gregor Hens at perlentaucher.de
• The competition entry by Hens for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2003 ( Memento from November 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait of his partner ( memento of the original from November 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Christoph Schröder: Dark land without magic. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .