Julia Franck

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Julia Franck (2001)

Julia Franck (born February 20, 1970 in East Berlin ) is a German writer .

Life

Julia Franck was born in 1970 together with her twin sister in Berlin-Lichtenberg . Her mother is the actress Anna Franck, her father the television director Jürgen Sehmisch. In 1978 Anna Franck and her four daughters left for the Federal Republic of Germany via the Marienfelde emergency reception center . After nine months in the emergency reception center, the family moved to Schleswig-Holstein near Rendsburg in 1979 . Julia Franck attended the Waldorf School there from fourth to seventh grade . In 1983 Julia Franck moved back alone to the western part of Berlin, where she graduated from high school in 1991. As a result, she began to study law, but after a stay of several months in San Francisco, decided to study ancient American studies, philosophy and modern German literature at the Free University of Berlin . During her school and study days, Julia Franck worked as a cleaning lady, nanny, auxiliary nurse, phonotypist, waitress, assistant at the Free University of Berlin and as a freelance journalist for radio ( Sender Freies Berlin ) and the Berliner Tagesspiegel . Further stays abroad took her to the United States , Mexico and Guatemala .

Julia Franck has received numerous awards, prizes and grants for her texts and books. In 1998 she received the Alfred Döblin Scholarship from the Academy of Arts, in 2004 she received the Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize , and in 2005 she received a scholarship from the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo . In September 2007 she received the German Book Prize for her novel Die Mittagsfrau . She has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 2001 . Julia Franck repeatedly takes on teaching positions, most recently as a visiting professor at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig.

Before her literary career, Julia Franck worked as a supporting actress in various films, including 1974 alongside Nina Hagen and Käthe Reichel in the GDR television film Today is Friday and in 1993 alongside Bruno Ganz and Lotte Loebinger in the movie Heller Tag by André Nitzschke.

Julia Franck wrote exhibition and catalog texts on works by contemporary artists, including Thomas Demand , Peter Krauskopf , Friedemann Grieshaber and Gerhard Richter . On February 3, 2012, she gave the keynote address for Gerhard Richter on the occasion of the major European retrospective in honor of his 80th birthday. As a contribution to the exhibition "Missing - The Tower of the Blue Horses by Franz Marc" in the Haus am Waldsee , Berlin (March 3 to June 5, 2017), the other contributions from visual artists such as Norbert Bisky , Christian Jankowski , Via Lewandowsky , Tobias Rehberger u. a. included, Julia Franck wrote the experimental prose text “Blaues Licht. Fragments of a Hoped-for Encounter ”, in which she deals with the undiscovered love story between Else Lasker-Schüler and her artist friend Franz Marc

Julia Franck is the granddaughter of the sculptor Ingeborg Hunzinger and great-great-granddaughter of the painter Philipp Franck . She lives in Berlin with her two children.

Literary work

Julia Franck - Reading in the Literaturhaus Munich 2007

Julia Franck first appeared as an author in the mid-1990s when she took part in literary competitions. In 1994 she won the youth competition of the New Society for Literature, in 1995 the Open Mike competition of the Berlin Literature Workshop with the short story Die Wunde .

Julia Franck's literary debut, her first novel Der neue Koch, was published in 1997 by Ammann Verlag . The interior view of a hotel heiress trapped in her living conditions is depicted, who after the death of her mother is forced to deal with new freedoms and opportunities.

From 1998 onwards, Julia Franck published texts in numerous anthologies, including the story Two in A Walk It Wasn't. Childhoods between East and West ( Susanne Schädlich , Anna Schädlich (Eds.)), Which she wrote together with her twin sister Cornelia.

In 1999 Julia Franck's novel Liebediener was published by DuMont Verlag . A network of relationships in a triangle and its effects are described. The Süddeutsche Zeitung discovered “possibly 'the' love story of the nineties”. For Liebesdiener Julia Franck received the scholarship for the second book of the Foundation of Lower Saxony .

Julia Franck became known to a wider public in the summer of 2000. In June she got the short story me nothing dir nothing from her volume of short stories , Bauchlandung , published later that year . Tales to touch (also DuMont Verlag) invited to the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt and won the 3sat Prize. In August 2000, belly landing was discussed in the literary quartet , and Julia Franck was also a guest on the Harald Schmidt Show .

In 2003 the novel Campfire was published . It tells the life of GDR refugees in the so-called Golden West of the 1970s from four perspectives. Franck sheds light on the demonization of the other in the conflict between East and West as well as the demands for prosperity, happiness and understanding that prevail everywhere on both sides of the wall.

Julia Franck received the 2007 German Book Prize for the novel Die Mittagsfrau , published by S. Fischer Verlag in September 2007. The novel then sold almost a million copies and stayed on the Spiegel bestseller list for months.

In 2009 Julia Franck published the anthology Border Crossings: Authors from East and West Remember Each Other (also S. Fischer Verlag), which brings together contributions from numerous well-known authors on border issues.

In 2011 the novel was published back to back (S. Fischer Verlag). Julia Franck tells a family story in Germany in the 1950s and 60s based on the fate of a sibling.

Julia Franck's work is popular with literary critics and readers alike. According to literary critic Denis Scheck , Franck's prose derives its sensuality from the skilful description of human relationships, especially in The New Cook , Liebediener and Belly Landing. Stories you can touch. Her dense prose is characterized by the fact that it is accessible to all readers thanks to its imagery and sensuality and does not need any mediation by literary critics.

In her more recent works, Julia Franck deals with her family history, and German history is a central theme of her literary work. In interviews, Julia Franck emphasizes that real events only serve as a creative stimulus, but that none of her novels contain the concrete characterization of a family member, for example. Her novel Campfire and her foreword in the anthology Grenzüberzüge testify to her experiences and research as well as a criticism of both German systems .

Julia Franck, like many other young German authors, became known around the turn of the millennium when there was a strong focus on contemporary German literature and many writers of the younger generation achieved cult status with their publications within a short period of time. For a long time, some literary criticism counted her among the authors of the so-called Fräuleinwunder, even if she is not mentioned in the Spiegel article by Volker Hage , who coined the term. The term “Fräuleinwunder” is controversial in literary criticism and literary studies because of its unclear definition and its chauvinistic meaning, but is still used.

On November 29, 2019, it became known that the writer had handed over her notes and documents about her previous literary work to the German Literature Archive in Marbach.

Julia Franck's books have been translated into 39 languages.

Works

translation

Works of art publications

Theater, film, audio book

Julia Franck's novel Die Mittagsfrau is performed in different stage arrangements, for example at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen 2010 in the arrangement by Volker Hesse , at the German-Sorbian People's Theater Bautzen in the arrangement by Eveline Günther and Beatrix Schwarzbach, at the Theater Osnabrück under the direction of Annette Pullen .

Julia Franck's novels and stories have been published as audio books, mostly read by the author herself, at Hörverlag Munich.

Franck's novel Campfire . was made into a film for the cinema in 2012-2013 under the title West under the direction of Christian Schwochow .

The filming of the novel for the cinema by the Swiss production company C-Film is also in preparation. As a director is Barbara Albert provided the script writes Meike Hauck.

Awards

literature

  • When you write, you are alone with yourself. In: Wiebke Eden : Don't be afraid of big feelings. Ed. Ebersbach, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-934703-26-7 , pp. 23-32.
  • Olga O. Kasaty: Interview with Julia Franck in: Ent Grenzenungen . Fourteen author interviews. Edition Text and Criticism, München 2007, ISBN 978-3-88377-867-9 .
  • Valerie Heffernan: Julia Franck, 'Die Mittagsfrau': 'Historia matria' and Matrilinear Narrative. In: Lyn Maren, Stuart Taberner (Eds.): Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century. Camden House, Rochester NY 2011, ISBN 978-1-57113-421-9 , pp. 148-161.
  • Alexandra Merley Hill: Playing House. Motherhood, Intimacy, and Domestic Spaces in Julia Franck's Fiction. Peter Lang Verlag, Oxford a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-0343-0767-3 .
  • Anush Köppert: Sex and Text. On the production / construction of female sexuality in contemporary women's literature around 2000. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86057-224-5 , pp. 187-219.
  • Corinna Schlicht and Eva Marsch (eds.): About stories that go out to explore life. Insights into Julia Franck's narrative worlds. With an interview with Julia Franck. Universitätsverlag Rhein-Ruhr, Duisburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-942158-24-4 ( brief overview and table of contents ).

media

  • Julia Franck documentary, 52 and 43 min., Script and direction: Daniela Schmidt-Langels, production: Blueprint, SF and RBB / Arte for the series Mein Leben / Ma vie, first broadcast: September 7, 2009 in SF , September 28, 2009 Arte , March 21, 2010 RBB ; Schmidt-Langels received the Juliane-Bartel-Medienpreis for the documentation .
  • Through the night with Julia Franck and Jens Friebe Arte 2007.
  • "We need the secular state". (MP3; 22:08 minutes) Julia Franck in conversation with Andreas Main. (No longer available online.) Deutschlandfunk , November 17, 2016, archived from the original on November 17, 2016 ; Retrieved on August 7, 2018 (interview, as part of the broadcast format “Tag für Tag” - From Religion and Society ; written version ; on religious tolerance and its Jewish but non-religious origins, on the relationship between state and religion and on Luther's rejection of the Violence in the name of God).

Web links

Wikiquote: Julia Franck  - Quotes
Commons : Julia Franck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neon, October 2009.
  2. ^ Anne-Catherine Simon : Book Prize: More and more German history (s). In: diepresse.com. October 8, 2007, accessed on August 11, 2018 ( Die Presse . Print edition, October 9, 2007).
  3. ↑ lovelybooks.de
  4. ↑ deutsches-literaturinstitut.de
  5. ↑ Today is Friday (1975) in the Internet Movie Database .
  6. ↑ Bright day. Germany 1994. In: ofdb.de, accessed on August 7, 2018 (with IMDb link).
  7. ↑ dnn-online.de
  8. ↑ Christhard Läpple: Missing: Painting by Franz Marc. In: heutejournal . ZDF , accessed on August 11, 2018.
  9. ↑ MISSING The tower of the blue horses by Franz Marc. Contemporary artists in search of a lost masterpiece March 9th – June 5th, 2017. (No longer available online.) In: fineartreisen.de. February 24, 2017, archived from the original on March 7, 2017 ; Retrieved on August 7, 2018 (FineArtReisen Article No. 193377; Source: Museum - Pinakotheken München).
  10. ↑ Missing! The tower of the blue horses by Franz Marc. 03.03.2017–05.06.2017. Contemporary artists in search of a lost masterpiece. (No longer available online.) In: hausamwaldsee.de. Haus am Waldsee e. V., archived from the original on August 11, 2018 ; Retrieved February 26, 2019 (originally accessed August 11, 2018).
  11. ↑ a b Julia Benkert: A day in the life of: Julia Franck. In: br.de. July 17, 2014, accessed on August 19, 2019 (film description; video online until September 18, 2019). [obsolete] Changed version: Julia Benkert: A day in the life of Julia Franck. In: br.de. September 18, 2014, accessed on August 7, 2018 (film description; video online until September 18, 2019). [outdated]
  12. ↑ goethe.de
  13. ↑ literaturwerkstatt.org (PDF)
  14. ↑ Freedom is different. In: tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved December 7, 2014 .
  15. ↑ perlentaucher.de
  16. ↑ Simone Polier (Kulturzeit) / lj: Sibling love. Julia Franck's novel "Back to Back". (No longer available online.) In: 3sat.de. October 28, 2011, archived from the original on April 15, 2016 ; accessed on November 4, 2018 .
  17. ↑ dieterwunderlich.de
  18. ^ Julia Franck in the Internet Movie Database (English) Template: IMDb / Maintenance / "imported from" is missing.
  19. ↑ The Battle of the Crow . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 2011 ( online ).
  20. ↑ Volker Hage: Pretty crazy . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1999 ( online ).
  21. ^ Ralf Schnell: History of German-language literature since 1945. Metzler, Stuttgart 2003, p. 583.
  22. ↑ Julia Franck's archive is handed over to Marbach , deutschlandfunkkultur.de Kulturnachrichten from November 29, 2019, accessed November 29, 2019
  23. ↑ fischerverlage.de
  24. ↑ nachtkritik.de
  25. ↑ The midday woman. (No longer available online.) In: theater-bautzen.de. 2013, archived from the original on December 8, 2012 ; accessed on November 4, 2018 (premiere: May 1, 2013, director: Beatrix Schwarzbach a. G.).
  26. ↑ The midday woman. First performance by Julia Franck. (No longer available online.) In: theater-osnabrueck.de. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; accessed on November 4, 2018 (production: Annette Pullen).
  27. ↑ randomhouse.de
  28. ↑ crew-united.com
  29. ↑ c-films.com
  30. ↑ independent.co.uk
  31. ^ Wingate Prize 2010. The shortlist. (No longer available online.) In: jewishquarterly.org. April 21, 2010, archived from the original on April 26, 2010 ; accessed on August 7, 2018 .
  32. ↑ independent.co.uk
  33. ↑ Julia Franck. A film by Daniela Schmidt-Langels Germany 2009, 52 min and 43 min. (No longer available online.) In: blueprintfilm.de. Archived from the original on December 11, 2013 ; accessed on August 7, 2018 ( Synopsis ).
  34. ^ Juliane Bartel Media Prize 2010 for rbb / ARTE co-production "Julia Franck" by Daniela Schmidt-Langels. (No longer available online.) In: Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg . November 4, 2010, archived from the original on June 21, 2013 ; accessed on February 26, 2019 .
  35. ↑ The Juliane Bartel Prize. (Lower Saxony Women's Media Prize). (No longer available online.) In: niedersachsen.de. 2011, archived from the original on December 19, 2016 ; accessed on November 4, 2018 .
  36. ↑ Video on YouTube .
personal data
SURNAME Franck, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th February 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin