Hanna Krall
Hanna Krall (born May 20, 1935 in Warsaw ) is a Polish writer and journalist .
Life
Hanna Krall survived the Warsaw ghetto . She began her journalistic activity in 1955 in the editorial office of the daily newspaper Życie Warszawy in Warsaw . In 1966 she started working for the weekly political magazine Polityka and was a foreign correspondent in the Soviet Union from 1966 to 1969 . Then she worked a. a. also for the Solidarność newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, founded in 1989 . In addition to her reports, which also appeared in edited volumes, she published numerous prose works that were translated into numerous languages (including German). Her only novel "Die Untertenieterin" is sometimes referred to as a "milestone in the literary thematization of the Shoah". Krall has taken important metaphors from the novel from Marek Edelmann .
Awards
- 1993: Jeanette Schocken Prize
- 1999: Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding (main prize)
- 2000: Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize
- 2005: Herder Prize
- 2008: Ricarda Huch Prize
- 2012: Würth Prize for European Literature
Publications in German
- 1979: Getting ahead of the Lord - a factual report . Translated by Hubert Schumann; Verlag Volk und Welt , Berlin / GDR 1979 (later editions: Verlag Neue Critique , Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-8015-0252-X ; Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-442-72323-X )
- 1980: Faster than God . Suhrkamp , Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-518-11023-3 . (= Translation of the title Dem Herrgott vorvorkommen by Klaus Staemmler)
- 1983: Innocent for the Rest of Life - Early Reports . New Critique Publishing House , Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-8015-0187-6 .
- 1986: The subtenant (novel). New Criticism Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-8015-0212-0 .
- 1990: Legoland . New Critique Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-8015-0242-2 .
- 1993: Dance at someone else's wedding . New Critique Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-8015-0265-1 .
- 1995: evidence of existence . New Critique Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-8015-0288-0 .
- 1997: hypnosis . New criticism publisher, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-8015-0306-2 .
- 1999: There is no more river . New Critique Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-8015-0331-3 .
- 2002: Oh, you are Daniel . New Critique Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-8015-0360-7 .
- 2005: an exceptionally long line . New Critique Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-8015-0377-1 .
- 2007: King of Hearts . New Critique Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-8015-0388-8 .
- 2012: pink ostrich feathers . New Critique Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-8015-0400-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hanna Krall in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Hanna Krall at perlentaucher.de
- Krall's text The background of the eye on the homepage of the newspaper Die Welt (narrative report on Stefan Wisniewski , contained in hypnosis )
- Polish Bibliography 1988-2001
Individual evidence
- ↑ Współcześni polscy pisarze i badacze literatury. Słownik biobibliograficzny , pod red. Jadwigi Czachowskiej i Alicji Szałagan. Warszawa 1996. Tom 4. ISBN 83-02-05974-9 , p. 363
- ↑ In German editions of her books, the year of birth 1937 is often given (German original edition of "Unterermieterin" 1986, paperback edition "Tanz auf Fremdder Hochzeit", 1997, as well as the entry in Perlentaucher at https://www.perlentaucher.de/autor/hanna -krall.html )
- ↑ Yfaat Weiss : Everyone is shot at , FAZ, June 15, 2019, page 16 online, not free of charge
- ↑ List of the winners 1998 - 2018, two-year award
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krall, Hanna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |