Joanne K. Rowling

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Joanne K. Rowling [ ˌd͡ʒəʊˈæn ˈkeɪ ˈrəʊlɪŋ ], CH , OBE (born July 31, 1965 in Yate , South Gloucestershire , England ; real name: Joanne Rowling ) is a British writer who became famous with the Harry Potter novel series about the magician student of the same name ; she is also active as a screenwriter and producer . The middle initial "K", which stands for the first name of her grandmother "Kathleen", added Rowling himself. She is best known for short as JK Rowling and under her pseudonym Robert Galbraith .

After the Forbes Magazine Rowling's fortune first time in 2004 at one billion US dollars had estimated it was a few years as the wealthiest writer in world history. In a TV documentary published in 2007, however, she denied this amount. In 2012, Forbes removed her from the list of dollar billionaires.

Life

Childhood and youth

Joanne Rowling was born in the small town of Yate near Bristol in southwest England, the daughter of Anne and Peter Rowling. Her parents were from London and married in March 1965. Peter Rowling worked at Rolls-Royce , Anne Rowling as a laboratory assistant.

After Joanne's birth, the Rowling family moved to Winterbourne , where Joanne Rowling started school in 1970. Even in her childhood, Joanne Rowling loved reading, which her mother encouraged. Rowling wanted to become a writer early on . At the age of five or six years she invented her first story - it was about a to measles diseased rabbits . She told these and other stories to her two years younger sister Dianne. In 1974 the family moved Rowling finally to Tutshill near the Welsh Chepstow .

Former home of JK Rowlings in Tutshill

Rowling attended Wyedean Comprehensive School there. She achieved very good grades, especially in language subjects, but according to her own statements, she was not particularly good in sports and mathematics . In high school she was elected student representative. The later fictional character Hermione Granger corresponds to the image she had of herself at the time, both outwardly and in character. She described herself as an intelligent wallflower with a gift for teaching and teaching.

After graduating from school in 1983, she studied French and Classical Studies at the University of Exeter . After completing her studies in 1987, which included a one-year stay as an English teacher in Paris , she worked in various office jobs; Among other things, she worked for two years at Amnesty International in London. In 1989 she moved to live with her boyfriend at the time in Manchester . During this time she worked on two novels for adults, which she never published and later destroyed.

Harry Potter series

In 1990 she invented the character Harry Potter while on a train ride from Manchester to London . She knew from the start that it would be a seven-volume series of books about a young magician attending a boarding school for witches and wizards . Rowling's mother died of multiple sclerosis on December 30, 1990 at the age of 45 . In 1991 Rowling went to Portugal , where she worked as a teacher in the afternoons at the Encounter English School in Porto . During this time she wrote a lot on the first of her Harry Potter books.

In March 1992 she met the Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes, whom she married on October 16, 1992. After their first daughter was born in 1993, Rowling and Arantes separated in November of that year. Rowling went back to Great Britain and settled in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh . As a single mother of a toddler, she was living on welfare back then while she continued working on her first book.

The Elephant House - the Edinburgh café where Rowling wrote the first volume of Harry Potter

In 1995 she completed Volume 1, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone . A year later she signed a contract with the literary agent Christopher Little. After the agency had offered the work to several publishers and repeatedly received rejections, Bloomsbury Publishing accepted the manuscript in 1996 . He had already rejected it before, but then reconsidered on the recommendation of his youth book manager, Barry Cunningham . Cunningham advised Rowling, however, to find another job, since children's books alone couldn't make a living. Rowling therefore took a postgraduate course at the University of Edinburgh to work as a teacher again. The book was not to appear under Rowling's full first name, Joanne, as the publisher feared boys would be reluctant to read books written by women. Rowling therefore decided on the initials “J. K. ". To this day, the Harry Potter volumes are still used in Great Britain under the author's name “J. K. Rowling ”.

On June 26, 1997, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published with an initial print run of 500 copies. Just three days after the publication of the first Harry Potter novel, the US publisher Scholastic surprisingly bought the American rights to Rowling's first work for $ 100,000. Under Rowling's contract with her agent, she received 80 percent of that. Rowling made it known in one fell swoop that a six-figure sum had been paid for the first work of an unknown children's author. In September 1997, Carlsen Verlag from Hamburg acquired the rights to all seven novels in the series for the German-speaking area . Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone came out the following year with an initial print run of 8,000 copies.

Volume 2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was completed by Rowling shortly after the first volume was published and was published in 1998. The German translation followed in 1999. Already the first two volumes sold well, but it was only after the publication of the third volume ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , 1999) that the world finally became aware of Rowling. From October 1999 onwards, volumes one to three occupied the first three places on the New York Times bestseller list . The fourth volume Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , published in 2000, appeared in record first editions of one million copies each in Great Britain and Germany and 3.8 million in the USA.

In 2000, Rowling sold all the marketing rights, including the film rights, to Time Warner , but retained the publishing rights and a say in the films. So she worked to ensure that Harry Potter was not a cartoon and should not be cast with American actors . In addition, Joanne K. Rowling was accepted as an officer in the Order of the British Empire that year.

On December 26, 2001, Rowling married the doctor Neil Murray. Numerous factors - working on the two benefit editions for Comic Relief (see below), her wedding, and finally her second pregnancy (her son was born in 2003) - delayed work on the fifth volume, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix . This was finally published in June 2003 with an even higher number of copies than the previous volume, 2 million copies in Germany alone.

On January 23, 2005, Rowling became a mother (a second daughter) for the third time in Edinburgh. The sixth Harry Potter volume, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , which she completed in December 2004, was released on July 16, 2005.

On January 11, 2007, Rowling finished work on the seventh and final volume. She wrote the date on a marble bust in the hotel room in Edinburgh where she last worked on the book: JK Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in this room (552) on 11th Jan 2007 . On July 21, 2007, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released . Since then she has repeatedly expressed, u. a. 2010 in an interview with Oprah Winfrey , possibly to write more Harry Potter books one day, material up to and including part 10 is readily available.

To date, the Harry Potter novels have been translated into 80 languages, including Latin and Ancient Greek , and have sold over 500 million copies. Rowling is considered one of Britain's richest women, even before Queen Elizabeth II . The Forbes magazine estimated her fortune in the years 2004 to 2007 to one billion US dollars . In the 2007 documentary A Year in Life of JK Rowling, however, she denied this and said it was even less than the estimated 570 million pounds sterling .

Life and work since 2007

After completing her Harry Potter heptalogy , Rowling turned to other projects. In an interview in July 2007, Rowling said she was currently working on one book for adults and one for children. In March 2008, she revealed that the latter was a "political fairy tale ". This has not yet been published and, according to the writer, was “in a drawer” for years because she did not find it good enough. In May 2020 the title The Ickabog and the release date November 2020 were announced.

In July 2011, Rowling's agent Neil Blair left the Christopher Little agency and founded The Blair Partnership, which has represented Rowling ever since. On February 23, 2012, The Blair Partnership announced in a press release that Rowlings' new adult book would appear in the foreseeable future. First details, including the original English title, The Casual Vacancy, and the approximate number of pages were published on April 13, 2012. The publisher is no longer Bloomsbury Publishing , but Little, Brown and Company . On July 11, 2012 Carlsen Verlag was the title of the German edition of The Casual Vacancy, The Casual Vacancy , known. The book was released worldwide on September 27, 2012 and received both positive and mixed reviews.

A little later, in April 2013, Rowling published the detective novel The Call of the Cuckoo under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith . Around 1,500 copies had been sold by July of the same year. On July 14, 2013, the Sunday Times published an article in which Rowling is exposed as the author of the book. The newspaper had previously received a notice in this regard and confirmed it through a stylometric study . A continuation of the series, which follows the protagonist "Cormoran Strike", appeared with Der Seidenspinner (The Silkworm) in the following year.

Rowling repeatedly spoke of wanting to publish a Harry Potter dictionary . In October 2007 she filed a lawsuit against a planned Harry Potter encyclopedia by the author Steve Vander Ark , which should have appeared in Great Britain during the month of December 2007. Arks Verlag (RDR Books) took the position not to infringe any copyrights . Michael Maar published a Harry Potter manual in 2008 with the help of the Hufflepuffs . Rowling himself finally announced the start of the Pottermore project in 2011 . This is a website on the Harry Potter universe that should be regularly filled with new background information. E-books from the Harry Potter series are also being sold on the platform for the first time. A visualized and interactive version of the novels was included in an earlier version of the website.

By 2013 at the latest, Joanne Rowling wrote the script for the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them , which is based on the Harry Potter “school book” of the same name she published. A year later, she announced via Twitter that she was optimizing the script at the moment and was already working on another novel on the side. The latter is another part of the "Cormoran Strike" series and was published in German in February 2016 under the title The Harvest of Evil .

Rowling was also involved in the production of the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child , which premiered in the West End in 2016 . The script was written by Jack Thorne based on a story by Rowling, Thorne, and John Tiffany and was released in hardcover as a drama on July 31, 2016 . Despite the difficult nature of reading for many consumers, the book sold over 680,000 times in the UK in the first three days. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has also been available in Germany since September 24, 2016 . The German version is titled Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and was the best-selling book in Germany in 2016.

In late June 2018, Rowling became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .

On April 7, 2020, Rowling announced that she had survived an infection with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 at home without having to go to the hospital. She attributed this to a special breathing technique that she learned from a YouTube video.

After Rowling repeated tweets to transsexuality the biological sex was highlighted as an identity feature, it was in June 2020 as many trans hostile criticism with hostility by his own admission or. Rowling then published a statement on her website in which she described her own experiences of domestic sexual violence and how this shaped her attitude towards gender identity . Daniel Radcliffe , Emma Watson and Eddie Redmayne , the characters from their books in their film adaptations, expressed objections partly before and partly after their comments, as did Rowling's American publisher Arthur Levine.

Rowling and the media

Rowling is a significant public figure because of her monetary wealth and popularity . The media report on them regularly.

Her life story has often been limited to the "single parent welfare recipient writes a bestseller". Rowling's website only went online in 2004, on which she also presented her résumé in writing for the first time and, in some cases, cleared up false reports about herself. In addition, numerous people who had to do with Rowling in the past want to have had a direct or indirect influence on Rowling's work, which she herself denied in most cases . In addition, her life story was filmed and published in Germany under the name Magic Beyond Words - The magic story of JK Rowling .

In the fourth volume, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , the reporter Rita Kimmkorn ( Rita Skeeter ) appears as a new character , who for vague and unsubstantial reasons sometimes writes defamatory articles about Harry and other famous wizards. However, Rowling himself says that the character was not the answer to the way the press dealt with Rowling, but was already intended for Volume 1. There Rowling deleted it because, in her opinion, it fits better into the fourth volume than Harry is really aware of his fame.

Works

Harry Potter Heptalogy (1997-2007)

The following books have appeared in the Harry Potter series :

tape German edition English original edition
title appearance
year 		ISBN title appearance
year 		ISBN
1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 1998 ISBN 978-3-551-55167-2 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 1997 ISBN 978-0-7475-3269-9
2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 1999 ISBN 978-3-551-55168-9 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 1998 ISBN 978-0-7475-3849-3
3 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 1999 ISBN 978-3-551-55169-6 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 1999 ISBN 978-1-85613-617-4
4th Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2000 ISBN 978-3-551-55193-1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2000 ISBN 978-0-7475-4624-5
5 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 2003 ISBN 978-3-551-55555-7 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 2003 ISBN 978-0-7475-5100-3
6th Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005 ISBN 978-3-551-56666-9 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005 ISBN 978-0-7475-8108-6
7th Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007 ISBN 978-3-551-57777-1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007 ISBN 978-0-590-76200-7

Published in 2001 Joanne K. Rowling also two small volumes that had been mentioned as non-fiction books in the Harry Potter books: Fantastic Beasts and where to find them ( Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ) under the pseudonym Newt Scamander and Quidditch Through the Ages ( Quidditch Through the Ages ) under the name Kennilworthy Whisp . The proceeds from the sale of these books will go to the Comic Relief charity .

In 2007 Rowling made seven handwritten and illustrated copies of the book The Fairy Tales of Beedle the Bard . It contains five fairy tales on 157 pages, including The Tale of the Three Brothers , which plays a prominent role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows . Rowling gave six copies to those who had supported her the most in the 17 years she worked on Harry Potter. The seventh book was auctioned at Sotheby’s in London on December 13, 2007 for the benefit of The Children's Voice campaign of the charitable organization Children's High Level Group, which Rowling co-founded . The online mail order company amazon.com was awarded the contract for 1,950,000 British pounds (around 2.75 million euros). On December 4, 2008, the book was published in English in two versions; the net proceeds from the sale will also benefit The Children's Voice . The German edition appeared under the title Die Märchen von Beedle dem Bard, also on December 4th, 2008.

On June 10, 2008, an only 800-word short “ Harry Potter Prequel ” on a DIN A5 handwritten card was auctioned in London by the auction house Sotheby's for 25,000 pounds (more than 31,500 euros). The entire proceeds of the auction, to which other authors also contributed, will go to the English section of the writers' association PEN and the dyslexia program Dyslexia Action .

A Sudden Death (2012)

The first adult novel by Joanne K. Rowling was translated into German by translators in London, as the original was only available on the premises of the British publisher. The 600-page manuscript was kept strictly confidential. The book was published worldwide on September 27, 2012 and bears the original English title "The Casual Vacancy". The cover is designed in the style of classic Edgar Wallace thrillers in strong red and yellow.

The novel is based on the sudden death of council member Barry Fairbrother, whose demise shocked people in the English town of Pagford. When Barry's seat on the parish council becomes vacant, "it creates the breeding ground for the greatest war the city has ever seen."

The German first edition was published in the same year by Carlsen Verlag , which also publishes the "Harry Potter" novels.

From February 15, 2015, a mini-series of the novel was broadcast on British television and released on DVD in June 2015. In Germany, the series was shown for the first time in a German dubbed version on Sky Atlantic HD from August 4, 2015 under the name A sudden death .

Cormoran Strike Series (from 2013)

On July 14, 2013 it was publicly announced that Rowling had already published the crime thriller The Cuckoo's Calling (in German: " The Cuckoo's Call") on April 30, 2013 under the pseudonym "Robert Galbraith" through the Mulholland Books publishing house . By then, 8,500 copies of the book had been sold (1,500 of which were hardcover copies). The German-language rights had already been secured by Blanvalet Verlag , which brought the book onto the market on November 30, 2013.

The focus of the plot is the private detective Cormoran Strike, who lost a leg as a soldier in the Afghan war and is now investigating a possible murder case in the midst of rich society. The German-speaking critics were not unanimously enthusiastic about the next novel, Die Seidenspinner . The British television series Strike is also based on the novel series .

tape German edition English original edition
title Publication
date 		ISBN title Publication
date 		ISBN
1 The call of the cuckoo November 30, 2013 ISBN 978-3-7645-0510-3 The Cuckoo's Calling April 30, 2013 ISBN 978-0-3162-0684-6
2 The silk moth November 24, 2014 ISBN 978-3-7645-0515-8 The Silkworm 19th June 2014 ISBN 978-0-3162-0687-7
3 The harvest of evil February 26, 2016 ISBN 978-3-7645-0574-5 Career of Evil 20th October 2015 ISBN 978-0-3163-4993-2
4th White death December 27, 2018 ISBN 978-3-7645-0698-8 Lethal White 18th September 2018 ISBN 978-0-3164-2273-4
5 Troubled Blood 29th September 2020 ISBN 978-0-3164-9893-7

The Ickabog (2020)

The children's book The Ickabog was designed by Rowling while the Harry Potter books were being created. However, after writing an initial draft and planning a publication following the final Harry Potter book, she decided to put the project on hold and instead wrote books reminiscent of an adult with A Sudden Death and The Call of the Cuckoo Audience. It wasn't until early 2020 that Rowling resumed work on the story with the aim of making it free for children who were restricted in their lives due to the Covid-19 pandemic . Rowling's children, to whom she read her original draft as a serialized bedtime story, acted as editors for its 2020 revision. The Ickabog is a political fairy tale about truth and the abuse of power. The first two chapters of the book appeared free of charge on May 26, 2020 on a website of the same name. A German translation has been announced as a book edition by Carlsen Verlag for November 2020 .

Filmography

Joanne K. Rowling (2010)

scriptwriter

Producer

Other activities

Rowling made several explicit statements on political issues. In an article in the Times she sharply criticized the social policy plans of then Prime Minister David Cameron and his Conservative Party . In an article for Time magazine , she praised then Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the Labor Party , with whom she is also friends.

Rowling took a public stand against Scottish independence and in 2014 supported the Better Together campaign to stay in the UK with £ 1 million .

Rowling spoke out on Twitter several times against racism and in favor of welcoming more refugees to the UK during the 2015 refugee crisis in Europe . She also uses calls for donations for children's health organizations, especially the Lumos organization that she founded .

Rowling is also the President of the Scottish Multiple Sclerosis -Gesellschaft ( Multiple Sclerosis Society of Scotland ). She donated large sums of money to research and cure this disease, from which her mother died. For her commitment, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Aberdeen .

Rowling also made a guest appearance on the Simpsons episode "The Queen Isn't Delighted!" She spoke to herself in the original tone.

She is a member of the Anglican Scottish Episcopal Church .

Awards

literature

  • Michael Böhles: Knowledge creates power? Biblical-theological reflections on Joanne K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' saga from a pastoral-psychopological perspective . Adlerstein-Verlag, Wiesmoor 2015, ISBN 978-3-945462-27-0 .
  • Michael Böhles: King's Cross and Fishing Net. Biblical and theological speculations on JK Rowling's 'Harry Potter' saga from a pastoral psychological perspective . Adlerstein-Verlag, Wiesmoor 2017, ISBN 978-3-945462-27-0 .
  • Lindsey Fraser; Till Martin (Ed.): Much magic around Harry. Die Welt der Joanne K. Rowling (Original title: Conversations with JK Rowling. Scholastic, New York (NY) 2001, ISBN 0-439-31455-0 , translated by Till Martin), authorized edition, Carlsen , Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3- 551-35107-4 .
  • Barbara Hartl: Joanne K. Rowling. In: Three great women writers: Joanne K. Rowling, Cornelia Funke , Enid Blyton . In: PM biographies at Baumhaus. Tree house, Bergisch Gladbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-8339-2451-4 .
  • Marc Shapiro: JK Rowling. The sorceress behind Harry Potter. an unauthorized biography, (original title: JK Rowling: The Wizard Behind Harry Potter. translated by Ulrike Seeberger). Burgschmiet, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-933731-56-9 .
  • Sean Smith: The creator of Harry Potter. The life of JK Rowling. Europa , Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-203-82043-9 .

Web links

Commons : JK Rowling  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Joanne K. Rowling  - Quotes

Individual evidence

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  47. ^ Arthur A. Levine: I know you and I know you aren't speaking out of hate. But I do have a different point of view about this. Gender can be “real” without being established irrevocably at birth by one's chromosomes or one's genitals. The brain is also an organ that determines gender. (1). In: Twitter. June 7, 2020, accessed on June 14, 2020 .
  48. ↑ Arthur A. Levine: (2) Once someone transitions to make their physical body reflect their gender identity, then the “sex” they then express is real. Trans women ARE real women, in their minds and in their bodies. Medical intervention on one person does not invalidate any who don't need it. (2) Once someone transitions to make their physical body reflect their gender identity, then the “sex” they then express is real. Trans women ARE real women, in their minds and in their bodies. Medical intervention on one person does not invalidate any who don't need it. In: Twitter. June 7, 2020, accessed on June 14, 2020 .
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  54. ↑ Information on Robert Galbraith's official website. Retrieved July 19, 2013 : "At the point I was 'outed', Robert had sold 8500 English language copies across all formats (hardback, eBook, library and audiobook) and received two offers from television production companies."
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JK Rowling's magical world (JK Rowling's Wizarding World)


prose
Harry Potter series

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone  (1997)  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets  (1998)  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban  (1999)  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire  (2000)  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix  ( 2003)  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince  (2005)  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows  (2007)

Hogwarts Library

Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them  (2001)  • Quidditch Through the Ages  (2001)  • The Tales of Beedle the Bard  (2008)

additional

Prequel  (2008)  • The History of Magic in North America  (2016)

Movies
Harry Potter

… And the Philosopher's Stone  (2001)  • … and the Chamber of Secrets  (2002)  • … and the Prisoner of Azkaban  (2004)  • … and the Goblet of Fire  (2005)  •
… and the Order of the Phoenix  (2007)  • … and The Half-Blood Prince  (2009)  • … and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1  (2010)  • … Part 2  (2011)

Fantastic beasts

... and where to find them  (2016, soundtrack )  • Grindelwalds Verbrechen  (2018)

Play

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child  (2016)

Lists
Harry Potter novels

Terms  • spells and curses  • characters  • locations  • animals

Harry Potter films

Filming locations  • Actors

Fantastic beasts

Terms  • Figures

Amusement Park Attractions
(Universal Orlando Resort)

Dragon Challenge  • Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure  • Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts  • Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey  • Hogwarts Express

Fandom

Wizard Rock  • Quidditch (sports)  • Potter Puppet Pals  (2003–)  • A Very Potter Musical  (2009–2012)  • Voldemort: Origins of the Heir  (2017)

personal data
SURNAME Rowling, Joanne K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rowling, Joanne; Rowling, Joanne Kathleen; Scamander, Newt (pseudonym); Whisp, Kennilworthy (pseudonym); Galbraith, Robert (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer, author of the Harry Potter novels
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Yate , South Gloucestershire, England, UK