Heike Suzanne Hartmann-Heesch
Heike Suzanne Hartmann-Heesch (born May 20, 1969 in Stadthagen ) is a German writer.
Life
After graduating from Mariengymnasium in Jever in 1988, Heike Suzanne Hartmann-Heesch studied English, German, pedagogy and educational psychology at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg; the state examination took place in 1995. Her first individual publication “Um nur zu Leben” was published in 2005. Further volumes with stories and reflections follow.
In 2011 her book “Long Breath” was published, in which she documents the long inpatient waiting time until her lung transplant in 2010, the life situation afterwards, which is initially characterized by the dependence on the ventilator, the associated loss of speech, oxygen and dialysis and the beginnings their way back into a completely changed everyday life. She took up these topics again in her volume of short stories, “The things as they are”, published in 2014; for the short story "The man who loves me" from which she received the 2013 Walter Kempowski Literature Prize.
The topic of her volume of short stories "I meant seagulls", published in 2017, is loss of language and communication. With her text "Sea is Night" from it, she was one of the winners of the second short story award of the Hamburg authors' association in 2018.
Heike Suzanne Hartmann-Heesch is married and lives in Hamburg.
Award
- 2013: Walter Kempowski Literature Prize
- 2015: 1st Bahman Prize of the litertur altonale Lesebühne
- 2016: 2nd Bahman Prize of the litertur altonale Lesebühne
- 2018: 2nd short story award of the Hamburg authors' association []
Publications
- I meant seagulls , stories, Wiesenburg Verlag Schweinfurt 2017, ISBN 978-3-95632-599-1
- The things as they are , stories, Mohland Verlag Goldebek, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86675-212-2
- Long breath , documentation and stories, Mohland Verlag, Goldebek, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86675-164-4
- Between the shadows , stories, Mohland Verlag, Goldebek, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86675-098-2
- The Pied Piper and other border crossings , stories and reflections, Mohland Verlag, Goldebek, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86675-047-0
- A matter of trust , stories and reflections, Mohland Verlag, Goldebek, 2006, ISBN 978-3-86675-030-2
- To just live , experience report, Mohland Verlag, Goldebek, 2005, ISBN 3-936120-76-5
Anthology contributions (selection)
- "The man who loves me" in "First of all wait for winter", short stories of the Walter Kempowski Prize of the Hamburg Authors' Association, Witt, Sabine (Ed.), Verlag Expeditions 2017, pages 114–119, ISBN 978-3- 943863-78-9
- "Losing humanity" in "ÜberLeben - Encountering loss and grief and drawing new strength", Langenau, Lars, Gräfe and Unzer 2017, pages 135-139, ISBN 978-3-8338-6024-9
- "Soon, soon perhaps" in "Die Taubenjägerin", The best stories from the MDR literary competition 2014, Hameter, Michael (ed.), Poetenladen Verlag 2014, pages 77-82, ISBN 978-3-940691-57-6
Web links
- Literature by and about Heike Suzanne Hartmann-Heesch in the catalog of the German National Library
- www.papiersinfonie.de
- Heike Hartmann-Heesch in the archive of web readings of the cultural authority of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg:
- “Walter Kempowski Literature Prize 2013 - Prize Winners” on Kulturport.de
- “I didn't want to live in the hospital anymore”, protocol in the series ÜberLeben on süeddeutsche.de
- "Literature every eight minutes" in "Die Auswärtige Presse eV"
- "Last year's winner Heike Suzanne Hartmann-Heesch wins the Bahman Prize of the literatur-altonale-Lesebühne" in "Die Auswärtige Presse eV"
- "Strong words about wordlessness" in "Leipzig listens"
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hartmann-Heesch, Heike Suzanne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stadthagen |