Hanna Johansen

Hanna Johansen , actually Hanna Margarete Meyer , (born June 17, 1939 in Bremen ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

After attending grammar school , Hanna Johansen studied classical philology , German and pedagogy at the universities of Marburg and Göttingen . From 1967 to 1969 she lived in Ithaca in the American state of New York . In 1972 she moved with her then husband, the writer Adolf Muschg , to Kilchberg near Zurich , where she has been based ever since.

Hanna Johansen began her literary career as a translator for contemporary American avant-garde authors and, inspired by her own offspring, as a writer of stories for children. Her debut novel appeared in 1978. The author is a member of the PEN Center in Switzerland and a corresponding member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt .

Awards and honors

• 1980 Honorary gift from the Canton of Zurich
• 1986 Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize
• 1987 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize (together with Martin Hamburger )
• 1990 Swiss Youth Book Prize
• 1991 Children's Book Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 1993 Austrian Children's and Youth Book Prize
• 1993 Literature Prize of the Province of Carinthia at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition
• 1993 Fantastic Prize of the City of Wetzlar for Over the Sky
• 2003 Solothurn Literature Prize
• 2007 recognition by the city of Zurich
• 2015 Swiss Literature Prize from the Federal Office of Culture for Autumn, in which I learned to play the piano

Works

• The standing clock , 1978
• Jan and the grandmother , 1978 (under the name Hanna Muschg together with Gisela Degler-Rummel )
• A master of pausing , 1979
• Trocadero , 1980
• The illiterate woman , 1982
• In the country , radio play, NDR, 1982
• Brother Bear and Sister Bear , 1983 (under the name Hanna Muschg)
• The duck and the owl , 1984 (under the name Hanna Muschg)
• Dormouse stories , 1985 (under the name Hanna Muschg)
• About the desire to feel good , 1985
• Back to Oraibi , 1986
• Felis Felis , 1987
• A man at the door , 1988
• The story of the little goose that wasn't fast enough , 1989
• The beauty at the bottom of the picture , 1990
• There are no dinosaurs , 1992
• Across the Sky , 1993
• Kurnovelle , 1994
• A mole always comes alone , 1994
• Der Füsch , 1995 (together with Rotraut Susanne Berner )
• The witch pulls the sleeping bag tighter , 1995 (together with Käthi Bhend )
• Universal History of Monogamy , 1997
• The cigarette lighter , radio play, SWF, 1997
• Are you already awake? , 1998 (together with Rotraut Susanne Berner)
• Half days, whole years , 1998
• About the chicken that wanted to lay golden eggs , 1998 (with Käthi Bhend)
• Maus, die Maus, reads a long book , 2000 (together with Klaus Zumbühl )
• Maus, die Maus, reads and reads , 2000 (together with Klaus Zumbühl)
• Just shut up! , 2001
• Lena , 2002
• "Omps!" - one dinosaur too many , 2003
• The Chicken Opera , Zurich, Nagel & Kimche, 2004
• I'm just the cat here , (Ill. Hildegard Müller) 2007
• The black screen , 2007
• A crocodile
• If I were a little bird (Ill. Hildegard Müller). Hanser, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-423-62544-9 .
• The autumn in which I learned to play the piano , Dörlemann, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-03820-011-6

literature

• Elisabeth Stuck: Hanna Johansen. A study of the narrative work 1978–1995. Language and poetry. NF 44. Haupt, Bern 1997. ISBN 3-258-05514-9
• Vesna Kondric Horvat: Tracing your own utopia. On the prose of German-speaking authors in Switzerland between 1970 and 1990, illustrated in the work of Gertrud Leutenegger and Hanna Johansen. Lang, Bern 2002. ISBN 3-906768-97-X

Web links

• Publications by and about Hanna Johansen in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Hanna Johansen archive in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Hanna Johansen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry about Hanna Johansen in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• The Solothurn Literature Prize for Hanna Johansen