Hella Haasse
Hella Serafia Haasse (born February 2, 1918 in Batavia , Dutch East Indies , † September 29, 2011 in Amsterdam , Netherlands ) was a Dutch writer .
Life
Hella Haasse grew up in the Dutch colony of the Dutch East Indies, now in Indonesia , and later in Amsterdam. Many of her works depict life in the tropical colony.
She also published historical novels. In Huurders en onderhuurders (tenants and sub-tenants, 1971) she again ironizes the historical novel. A recurring motif is the person in search of himself.
Haasse has received numerous literary prizes, including the PC Hooft-prijs (1983) and the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren (2004). In 1988 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Utrecht . She was the author of the Boekenweek present three times , first in 1948 with Oeroeg (published in German as The Black Lake ).
Hella Haasse is one of the most widely read Dutch authors.
Works in German
- The Indonesian Secret . Translated from the Dutch by Birgit Erdmann and Andrea Kluitmann . Transit, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-88747-323-5 .
- The tenement house . Goldmann, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-442-72306-X .
- The painting . Goldmann, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-442-72305-1 .
- The little garden . Goldmann, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-442-72304-3 .
- The blue house . Goldmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-442-72303-5 .
- I always disagree . Wunderlich, Reinbek 1997, ISBN 3-8052-0580-5 .
- Transit . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-518-40804-6 .
- The tea barone . Wunderlich, Reinbek 1995, ISBN 3-8052-0554-6 .
- The black lake . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994, ISBN 3-499-13438-1 . New edition: The black lake . (From the Dutch and with an afterword by Gregor Seferens) Lilienfeld Verlag, Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-940357-57-1 (Lilienfeldiana vol. 22), also available as an e-book: ISBN 978-3-940357-59 -5
- The initiated . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1961.
- Forest of expectation . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1957.
- The scarlet city . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1955.
- Desecrated city . Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1954.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hella Haasse in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hella Haasse in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Digitaal museum Hella Haasse Personal archive with family photos, letters, diary entries, manuscripts, book fragments and interviews
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haasse, Hella |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haasse, Hella Serafia (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Batavia , Dutch East Indies |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 29, 2011 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam , Netherlands |