Jan-Philipp Sendker
Jan-Philipp Sendker (* 1960 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist and writer .
Life
Jan-Philipp Sendker grew up as a child of retailers in Hamburg. After graduating from high school, he became a freelance journalist. From 1990 to 1995 he was Stern's America and Asia correspondent from 1995 to 1999 . After another stay in America, he returned to Germany. Sendker found a small publisher in the USA for his initially only moderately successful debut novel, Das Herzenehlen , and the book became a bestseller there thanks to reader recommendations .
Sendker is married to an art historian and lives as a freelance writer with his family in Potsdam .
Works (selection)
- Cracks in the great wall. Faces of a New China . Report. Blessing, Munich 2000; updated edition: Heyne, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-453-62016-2 .
- Hear the heart . Novel. Blessing, Munich 2002 ISBN 978-3-453-41001-5 .
- The whisper of the shadows . Novel. Blessing, Munich 2007
- Kite games . Novel. Blessing, Munich 2009 ISBN 978-3-453-40805-0 .
- Heart voices . Novel. Blessing, Munich 2012 ISBN 978-3-453-40965-1 .
- At the other end of the night . Novel. Blessing, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-89667-389-3 .
- The old monk's secret. Fairy tales and fables from Burma . Blessing, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-89667-581-1 .
Reviews
Birgit Koß: Disappeared in China
Web links
- Literature by and about Jan-Philipp Sendker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Jan-Philipp Sendker in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Jan-Philipp Sendker at perlentaucher.de
- Jan-Philipp Sendker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jan-Philipp Sendker , website
Individual evidence
- ^ Review of The Whispering of Shadows on Deutschlandradio Kultur , September 4, 2007, accessed on April 12, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sendker, Jan-Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |