Heidrun Jänchen

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Heidrun Jänchen (born October 10, 1965 in Burgstädt ) is a German writer of science fiction and fantasy . Her novel Simon Goldstein's birthday party was nominated for the German Science Fiction Prize and the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize . She received the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis in 2009 for her short story A Business Like Any Other . In 2012 she received the German Science Fiction Prize for her short story In the Free Trade Zone .

life and work

Heidrun Jänchen grew up in Mohsdorf . She went to school in Mohsdorf, Burgstädt and Rochlitz and graduated from high school in 1984 . She then studied physics from 1984 to 1989 at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . After German reunification , Heidrun Jänchen completed further training as a technical writer . From 1992 to 1997 she worked as part of her doctorate at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Mechanics in Jena. In 1997 Heidrun Jänchen received her doctorate with the thesis on the production and characterization of optically anisotropic hafnium oxide and zirconium oxide layers . She is currently working in the optical industry as a device developer. From 2014 to 2019 she sat for the Pirate Party in Jena's city council . In addition, she ran for the mayoral election in Jena in 2018.

Jänchen has been writing prose and poetry since she was a child . She took part in the poetry seminar in Schwerin several times . After winning the Story Olympiad in 2002, she published her debut novel The Iron Throne (2003), which she wrote together with Andrea Tillmanns and Christian Savoy . This was followed by a script for the ZDF series Wilsberg , her own fantasy novel To the North! (2006) and finally her science fiction debut Simon Goldstein's Birthday Party (2008). Since 2003 she has been publishing the SF series at Wurdack Verlag together with Armin Rößler and Dieter Schmitt , in which her own short stories and stories about her appear again and again.

Works

Novels

  • The Iron Throne (with Andrea Tillmanns and Christian Savoy), Nittendorf, Story Olympiad, 2003, ISSN  1612-0566 , vol. 1
  • North! , Nittendorf, Wurdack-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-938065-09-5
  • Simon Goldstein's birthday party , Nittendorf, Wurdack-Verlag, 2008. ISBN 3-938065-33-8

Short story collection

Short stories and short stories (selection)

  • Before the storm in Deus ex Machina (Story Olympiad, ISSN  1618-9647 Vol. 10), nominated for the German Science Fiction Prize 2003
  • Case study: Terrorist Jenny S. in surplus (Wurdack-Verlag 2005, ISBN 3-938065-08-7 ), nominated for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize 2006
  • The Moa in Tabula rasa project (Wurdack-Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-938065-18-4 ), nominated for the 2007 Kurd-Laßwitz Prize
  • 95 percent in Lazarus (Wurdack-Verlag 2007, ISBN 3-938065-21-4 ), nominated for the German Science Fiction Prize 2008 and the Kurd Laßwitz Prize 2008
  • Rainbow green in Der Moloch (VISIONS 4, Shayol 2007, ISBN 978-3-926126-74-0 ), nominated for the German Science Fiction Prize 2008
  • Slomo in Das Mirakel (edfc 2007, ISBN 978-3-932621-99-4 ), nominated for the German Science Fiction Prize 2008
  • A business like any other in the lotus effect (Wurdack-Verlag 2008, ISBN 3-938065-32-X ), awarded the Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize 2009
  • Camels, cuckoo clocks and bees in the audience (Wurdack-Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-938065-62-4 )
  • In the free trade zone in Emotio (Wurdack-Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-938065-75-4 ), awarded the German Science Fiction Prize 2012

Scripts

  • Wilsberg: Last Way Out Mord (first broadcast on October 18, 2003 on ZDF), together with Oliver Groß, Joachim Schlag, Marion Schlepp, Gerd Zipper and Ulla Buthe

As editor with Armin Rößler

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mayor elections . Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Janchen, Heidrun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgstädt