Jana Hensel

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Jana Hensel, 2008

Jana Hensel (born July 3, 1976 in Borna , Saxony ) is a German author and journalist .

Life

Hensel grew up in Leipzig . She studied Romance Studies and Modern German Literature at the University of Leipzig , in Marseille , Berlin and Paris . In 1999 she was editor of the Leipzig literary magazine EDIT , in 2000, together with Thomas Hettche , the Internet anthology Null .

In 2002 she published the commemorative volume Zonenkinder , in which she describes her experiences with the cultural adaptation of GDR youth to West German society after reunification . According to her own statement, the appearance of Generation Golf gave her the impetus to write the book, in which she did not find the experiences of the East German generation despite the same year. The book was on the Spiegel's non-fiction bestseller list for over a year and sold more than 350,000 copies. Zone children has been translated into several languages. In 2008 her second autobiographical book was published under the title Neue deutsche Mädchen , written together with Elisabeth Raether . At the beginning of October 2009 the essay volume Achtung Zone - Why we East Germans should stay differently was published . In 2010 Jana Hensel received the Theodor Wolff Prize of the German newspapers for the article Vater Morgana ( Die Zeit ).

Hensel wrote for Die Zeit , Spiegel and Die Welt .

Since 2011 she has worked as a freelance writer for the weekly newspaper der Freitag , where she mainly wrote on East German and women's issues. In April 2012 she became the successor of Jörn Kabisch as deputy editor-in-chief of Freitag . She left the paper at the end of 2014 “at her own request”. In 2017 her first fiction book Keinland was published. A romance novel . In the review of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the narrator's “false pathos” and “the lewd voice” were lamented, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung complained about “kitsch and cliché” of the book. Hensel has been the author of ZEIT ONLINE since 2018 . There she portrayed the Greens chairman Robert Habeck, among others . The opening scene of the article, in which it describes how Habeck takes off his shoes during a ride on the ICE and holes in his socks, met with attention and criticism . A portrait of Holger Friedrich , owner of the Berlin publishing house since 2019 , also attracted attention. In it, she describes how Friedrich offered to write her portrait not for the time , but for the Berliner Zeitung, which belongs to his publishing house . In 2019 the anthology How everything stays different - Stories from East Germany was published with reports, essays, interviews and portraits by Jana Hensel about East Germany that have already been published. In 2019, Hensel was voted “Journalist of the Year” by Medium Magazin in the Culture category.

Jana Hensel lives in Berlin and has a son.

Works

literature

  • Lothar Bluhm: Identity, Memory and Generation Discourse. Comments on Jana Hensel's “Zone Children” . In: Paula Rossi (ed.): Fran översättning till etik. In: Acta universitatis ouluensis. Volume 64, (Oulu) 2005, pp. 21-31.
  • Enza Gini: Zone children. Figli della Zona. In: Eva Banchelli: Taste the East: Linguaggi e forme dell'Ostalgie. Sestante Edizioni, Bergamo 2006, ISBN 88-87445-92-3 , pp. 143-164.
  • Tom Kraushaar (ed.): The zone children and we: The story of a phenomenon. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-23672-9 .
  • Martina Ölke: Looking back at home. The GDR in Jana Hensel's “Zonenkinder” and other text and image examples. In: active word. Volume 56, 2006, Issue 2, pp. 261-278.
  • Fabian Thomas: New lives, new writing? The "turning point" in 1989/90 with Jana Hensel, Ingo Schulze and Christoph Hein. Martin Meidenbauer Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-89975-948-8 .

Web links

Commons : Jana Hensel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jana Hensel, why are the Ossis complaining? , Interview by Jochen Wegner and Christoph Amend with Jana Hensel in the podcast series Everything said? , February 14, 2019 (section How did Jana Hensel's bestseller Zonenkinder come about?, From 0:52)
  2. ↑ Translations of Zonenkinder u. a .:
  3. ↑ Jana Hensel: Father Morgana . The modern dad takes parental leave, diapers, cooks porridge and likes to talk about it like Cem Özdemir. But after a few weeks it disappeared again. In: Die Zeit No. 1/2009. December 30, 2009. Retrieved March 25, 2012.
  4. ↑ Jana Hensel .
  5. ↑ Jana Hensel .
  6. ↑ Jana Hensel: 20-year-olds can write well. But about what? In: welt.de . November 6, 2006, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Jana Hensel: GDR and terrorism: The beautiful young world of the Stasi veterans. In: welt.de . March 31, 2007, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Henning Kornfeld: Author of "Zonenkinder": Jana Hensel becomes vice-boss at "Freitag" In: kress, March 21, 2012
  9. ↑ Marc Bartl:  Change in the editor-in-chief of “Freitag”: Jana Hensel is gone, Michael Angele rises . In: kress. January 5, 2014. Retrieved January 5, 2014.
  10. ↑ Meike Fessmann: Go down wrong. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Jan Wiele: Jana Hensel's novel: When wishing no longer helped . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed October 25, 2019]).
  12. ↑ Steffen Grimberg: Column flicker and noise: Oha, it does not thresh! In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 12, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed December 14, 2019]).
  13. ↑ Jana Hensel: Holger and Silke Friedrich: East German nightmare . In: The time . December 11, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed December 14, 2019]).
  14. ↑ Medium Magazin, ISSN 0178-8558, No. 06/2019. ( Publisher's announcement )
  15. ↑ Jana Hensel: Why didn't you give them your opinion? , Zeit online, September 7, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Hensel, Jana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Borna