Hanna Jansen

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Hanna Jansen (* 1946 in Diepholz ) is a German author for children and young people .

Life

Jansen grew up in Osnabrück , where she later studied. In 1988 she moved to Siegburg . She worked for many years as a teacher and moderator for teacher training in Cologne. For ten years she worked in a team of authors for a large school book publisher and initially wrote texts for language books. In spring 2001 her first novel was published. For several years she has also been leading literature and writing workshops in various contexts.

With her husband, Reinhold Jansen, a pediatrician, she adopted 12 children, mostly from Africa. She has lived in Sassen since 2011 .

Awards (selection)

  • 2002 Buxtehuder Bulle for the novel Over a thousand hills I walk with you as the best book for young people
  • 2007 Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award in the Multicultural Fiction - Children’s category for Over a Thousand Hills I Walk with You (Carolrhoda), translated by Elizabeth D. Crawford
  • 2007 PMA Ben Franklin Award for Over a Thousand Hills I Walk with You

Works (selection)

Children's and young people's literature
  • The stolen summer . Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-551-35356-5 (unchanged reprint of the Stuttgart 2001 edition).
  • I marry Felixa . Thienemann Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-522-17548-4 .
  • I wander over a thousand hills with you . Knaur Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-426-62310-2 (unchanged reprint of the Stuttgart 2002 edition).
  • Gretha on the stairs . Thienemann Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-52217597-2 .
  • Heart stones . Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal, February 2012, ISBN 978-3-7795-0374-3 .
  • Time of the crabs . Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal, July 2013, ISBN 978-3-7795-0477-1
  • I wander over a thousand hills with you (revised new edition). Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal, February 2015, ISBN 978-3-7795-0517-4
  • Linus in luck (with illustrations by Britta Gotha). Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal, July 2016, ISBN 978-3-7795-0559-4
  • Maxima and I (with illustrations by Leonard Erlbruch). Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal, July 2017, ISBN 978-3-7795-0583-9
Fiction
stories
  • Simon . In: Katharina Ebinger (Ed.): People seeks meaning. Five stories about the world religions . Gabriel, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-522-30051-3 (together with Vanamali Gunturu, Ghazi Abdel-Qadir, Sybil Rosen and Judith N. Klein).
  • Noel or Ibulay's dream . In: Petra Deistler (Ed.): Home is where I am happy. New in Germany . Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2011, pp. 164–191, ISBN 978-3-551-35994-0 .
  • Noel or the dream of Ibulay (revised version). In: Somewhere there is more . Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal, February 2016, ISBN 978-3-7795-0536-5
  • Simon (revised version). In: Katharina Ebinger (Ed.): People seeks meaning. Five stories about the world religions . Gabriel, February 2016, ISBN 978-3-522-30463-4
  • Christmas angels in need . In: Beautiful Christmas Favorite Stories for Young and Old , Thienemann Verlag, October 2016, ISBN 978-3-522-18440-3
Non-fiction
  • Language book B for secondary schools in Lower Saxony / language key. Differentiation booklet . Klett, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-12-313652-3 .

literature

  • Astrid Arz: And nowhere is paradise. The author Hanna Jansen on her book "I hike over a thousand hills with you" . In: Bulletin Jugend & Literatur , Vol. 33 (2002), Issue 2, p. 9, ISSN  0045-351X (an interview).

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ^ "Caribbean crab migration" , review by Sylvia Schwab in Deutschlandradio Kultur on November 27, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Jansen, Hanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author of children's and young people's books
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Diepholz