Henning Ahrens

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Henning Ahrens (born November 22, 1964 in Peine ) is a German writer and literary translator .

Life

Henning Ahrens is the son of a farmer . He grew up near Peine and studied English , history and art history in Göttingen , London and Kiel . In 1995 he was at the University of Kiel with a thesis on John Cowper Powys to Doctor of Philosophy PhD . Ahrens now lives in Frankfurt am Main .

Henning Ahrens is the author of poetry and narrative prose . His two previous novels can be assigned to fantastic literature and, with their hyper-realistic portrayal of a dream world, are in the tradition of magical realism . Besides translated Ahrens from the English .

Awards

Works

  • John Cowper Powys' Elementalism. A philosophy of life . Dissertation. Frankfurt am Main 1997.
  • Darling what's coming . Poem. Stuttgart 1998.
  • Stubble . Poems. Stuttgart et al. 2000.
  • Run hunter run! Novel. Frankfurt am Main 2002.
  • Slow waltz . Novel. Frankfurt am Main 2004.
  • Animal days . Novel. Frankfurt am Main 2007.
  • No sleep in sight . Poems. Frankfurt am Main 2008.
  • Provincial Lexicon. Stories from the edge of the world . Munich 2009.
  • Glantz and Gloria . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-000529-8 .

Essays

  • Find everything better for today than before. In: Bella sad . No. 10, 2004
  • Relief from the concrete heads. In: Bella sad. No. 17, special edition on contemporary German-language poetry, 2007.

Scattered publications

  • Berlin, August 97 . Poems. In: Krachkultur 7/1998.
  • Schleppegrell goes to get milk . Narrative. In: Bella sad. No. 7, 2003.
  • A space odyssey . Poems. In: Edit paper for new texts 39, 2005.
  • Wislaug's rebirth . Narrative. In: Mathias Mertens (Ed.): Paris Peine Pattensen. Literary surveys in the countryside . Göttingen 2006.

Translations

  • John Cowper Powys : The Diaries 1929-1939 . Salzburg et al. 1997.
  • Martha Baer: Inez to Francesca . Hamburg 1998.
  • Guanlong Cao: Long shadows . Salzburg et al. 1998.
  • Annie Dillard : I am writing . Salzburg et al. 1998.
  • Peter Dickinson : Children of the Moon Hawk . Hamburg 1999.
  • André Alexis: childhood . Munich 2000.
  • Colson Whitehead: The elevator inspector . Hamburg 2000.
  • Loi Lowry: In search of the blue . Hamburg 2001.
  • Brady Udall: The Beer Can Tree . Stuttgart et al. 2001.
  • Fergus Fleming : Barrow's boys . Hamburg 2002.
  • Brooks Hansen: The Temptation of August Perlmann . Munich 2002.
  • Peter Dickinson: The longest time . Hamburg 2003.
  • Peter Dickinson: Dancing Bear . Hamburg 2003.
  • James Frey : A thousand little pieces . Munich 2003.
  • Walter Kirn: Mr. Bingham earns miles . Cologne 2003.
  • Mark Dunn: Nollop's Legacy . Hamburg 2004.
  • Hugo Hamilton : piebald people . Munich 2004.
  • Jonathan Safran Foer : Extremely loud and incredibly close . Cologne 2005.
  • Hugo Hamilton: The sailor in the closet . Munich 2006.
  • Don Paterson : White as the moon . Munich 2006.
  • Don Paterson: candle bird . Munich 2006.
  • DBC Pierre : Bunny and Blair . Berlin 2007.
  • Hugo Hamilton: The talkative island. Irish diary . Munich 2007.
  • Saul Bellow : The Adventures of Augie March . Cologne 2008.
  • Hugo Hamilton: Legends . Munich 2008.
  • Peter Orner: The return of the Mavala Shikongo . Munich 2008.
  • John Griesemer : Heartbeat . Zurich / Hamburg 2009.
  • Chris Killen: The bird room . Cologne 2009.
  • Richard Powers : The greater luck . Frankfurt am Main 2009.
  • Hugo Hamilton: The Irish friend . Munich 2011.
  • Ruta Sepetys : And in me the invincible summer . Hamburg 2011.
  • Leigh Bardugo: Grisha .
  • Ruta Sepetys: Happiness forever . Hamburg 2014.
  • Arthur Conan Doyle : A Study in Scarlet . Frankfurt am Main 2016.
  • Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of Four . Frankfurt am Main 2016.
  • Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes . Frankfurt am Main 2016.
  • Arthur Conan Doyle: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes . Frankfurt am Main 2016.
  • Ruta Sepetys: salt for the sea . Hamburg 2016.
  • John Steinbeck : Log of Life . Hamburg 2017.
  • Meg Wolitzer : The female principle . Cologne 2018.
  • Colson Whitehead: The Nickel Boys . Munich 2019.

Web links

Commons : Henning Ahrens  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

supporting documents

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personal data
SURNAME Ahrens, Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Torment