Heiner Egge

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Heiner Egge (born March 26, 1949 in Heide / Holstein ) is a German writer .

Life

Heiner Egge spent his childhood and youth on his parents' farm in Heide. After he passed his school leaving examination in 1967 , he did his military service and from 1969 studied German and history at the universities of Kiel , Marburg and Freiburg im Breisgau . Later he lived as a freelance writer in Buchenbach / Black Forest . Egge made trips to the Mediterranean and Africa .

From 1975 to 1988 he published the literary magazine Das Nachtcafé - magazine for literature, art and criticism . From 1985 he lived in Hamburg , where he ran a bookstore in Altona . In the 1990s he returned to his home in Dithmarsch ; after a temporary stay in Sarzbüttel , he has lived in Hennstedt since 1998 . Since 2000 he has been secretary of the Klaus Groth Society .

Heiner Egge is the author of novels , short stories and travel books . In 1977 he received the Georg Mackensen Literature Prize , a scholarship from the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben in 1993 and the Friedrich Hebbel Prize in 1994 .

Works

  • Driving away , Kirchzarten 1978
  • Looking for a house , Schwichteler 1979
  • Beyond the streets , Heide 1979
  • Café Treibsand , Freiburg i. Br. 1982
  • In the shadow of the dolphin , Karlsruhe 1982
  • Niebuhrslust , Hamburg [a. a.] 1992
  • Wanderfieber , Witzwort 1998
  • Between the tides , Heide 1998 (together with Walter Mayr)
  • The Eiderbote , Flensburg 2001
  • Heide - a land like the wind , Heide 2001
  • In the cabin , Husum 2004
  • So hurt in the sun , Husum 2005
  • The journey on foot , Husum 2008
  • Tilas Farben , a novel about the painter Ottilie Reylaender, Fischerhude 2013

Editing

  • Freiburg reader , Karlsruhe 1982

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personal data
SURNAME Egge, Heiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Heath (Holstein)