Katharina Hacker

Inaugural address at the city writer's festival 2005

Katharina Hacker (born January 11, 1967 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German writer . Her work includes narrative and essayistic prose as well as translations from Hebrew .

Life

With her parents - her mother is an art historian, her father a neuroradiologist - Katharina Hacker spent a lot of time in the country.

Hacker attended the old-language Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main from 1975 to 1986 . From 1986 she studied philosophy , history and Jewish studies at the University of Freiburg . In 1990 she moved to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ; At the same time she worked as a German teacher and at the School for Cultural Studies in Tel Aviv . She completed her studies without a degree. She has been living as a freelance writer in Berlin since 1996 . In autumn 2006, her novel Die habenichtse was awarded the German Book Prize. In October 2013 she joined the literary advisory board of the digital model project fiction .

Change of publisher

In November 2009, Katharina Hacker announced in a press release that she had ended her long-term collaboration with Suhrkamp Verlag . The reason for this are disputes between her and the publishing house management over the publication of her novel Alix, Anton und die Others , her "essentially most important book", which was part of a three-part novel project, against her will . A novella belonging to this project was published in May 2010 by S. Fischer Verlag .

Awards

• 2001 residency scholarship for Schloss Wiepersdorf
• 2005 City Clerk of Bergen-Enkheim
• 2006 German Book Prize
• 2006 Düsseldorf Literature Prize
• 2010 Stefan Andres Prize

Works

prose

• Tel Aviv. A city tale . Suhrkamp ( edition suhrkamp 2008), Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-518-12008-5
• Morpheus or The Schnabelschuh . Stories. Suhrkamp (es 2092), Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-518-12092-1
• Sketch about my grandmother . In: Of those snails . Two texts by Paulus Böhmer and Katharina Hacker. Dielmann, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-929232-53-7
• The lifeguard . Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000; as a paperback ibid. 2006, ISBN 3-518-45905-8
• Kind of love . Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003; as a paperback, ibid. 2005, ISBN 3-518-45692-X
• The have-nots . Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2006; as a paperback ibid. 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-45910-2 ( 1st place on the Spiegel bestseller list from October 23 to November 26, 2006 )
• Landline . Prose poems. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-41909-0
• Alix, Anton and the others . Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-42127-7
• Anton's mother's strawberries . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-10-030064-5
• A village story . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011. ISBN 978-3-10-030066-9
• Skip . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015. ISBN 978-3-10-030065-2
• May I offer you this? Minute essays . Berenberg Verlag, Berlin 2019. ISBN 978-3-946334-57-6

Broadcast contributions

• With Baudelaire at the airport ( Baudelaire and the art of memory ). Radio feature . Deutschlandradio 1998

Translations

• Leah Aini : One has to be there . Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-518-40924-7
• Jossi Avni: The Garden of Dead Trees . Novel in 15 episodes (with Markus Lemke ). Swarm of men , Hamburg 2000; New edition ibid. 2006, ISBN 3-935596-87-1

Audio book

• The have-nots . Speaker: Inga Busch . Editing and direction: Gabi Rüth. 4 CDs. DAV , Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89813-638-8

literature

• Friedmar Apel: Memory and Knowledge with Saul Friedländer and Katharina Hacker . In: Journal for German Philology , 2006, No. 125, special issue: The memory of literature. Constitutional forms of the past in 20th century literature . Contributions of the international symposium on the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Hartmut Steinecke from April 28 to 30, 2005 in Paderborn, pp. 176–182.
• Reinhold Grimm: prose poems? On ways and turns of recent German poetry . In: Studi germanici , 45, 2007, 2, pp. 279-287.
• Franz Fromholzer: Inexorably aimless? Messianic time in Katharina Hacker's “The Have-Nots” . In: New German review , 23, 2008, pp. 99-115.
• Meike Herrmann: Remembrance literature without remembering subjects or: How contemporary history comes into the novel. On narrative texts by Katharina Hacker, Thomas Lehr, Tanja Dückers and Marcel Beyer . In: Wolfgang Hardtwig, Erhard Schütz (Ed.): Nobody gets away. Contemporary history in literature after 1945 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, pp. 251–265. [To: A kind of love ].
• Corinna Schlicht: The impotence of women in history: using the example of the novels by Katharina Hacker, Annett Gröschner and Julia Franck . In: Corinna Schlicht (Ed.): Gender Constructions , 2: Literature, linguistic and communication studies analyzes . Laufen, Oberhausen 2008, pp. 119–144. [To: The have-nots]
• Wilhelm Amann: Global flows - local culture? Katharina Hacker "The have-nots" . In: Wilhelm Amann (Ed.): Globalization and contemporary literature. Constellations - Concepts - Perspectives . Synchron, Heidelberg 2010, pp. 209-222.
• Hermann Verschens: Stefan Andres Prize to Katharina Hacker . In: Mitteilungen der Stefan-Andres-Gesellschaft , 31, 2010, pp. 10–17.
• Katharina Gerstenberger: Fictionalizations. Holocaust memory and the generational construct in the works of contemporary women writers . In: Laurel Cohen-Pfister (Ed.): Generational Shifts in Contemporary German Culture . Camden House, Rochester NY 2010, pp. 95-114.
• Rüdiger Görner: The le (h) (e) re of abundance. London in Katharina Hacker's "The Have-Nots" . In: Neue Rundschau , 121, 2010, 4, pp. 230–239.
• Friederike Gösweiner : Loneliness in the young German-language literature of the present . Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna 2010 [therein pp. 181–206: chap. 4.4.3 .: Inside empty and ideally impoverished - Katharina Hacker's The Have-Nots ].
• Konrad Harrer: The Latest Topography of Terror. On Katharina Hacker's novel The Have-Nots . In: Fernando Clara, Isabel Capeloa Gil, Filomena Viana Guarda, Peter Hanenberg (eds.): Tidying up, clearing out, placing in cultural buildings . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2010, pp. 429–441.
• Andrea Leskovec: Katharina Hacker's The Have-Nots . A novel about violence? In: LiLi. Journal for Literary Studies and Linguistics , 2010, Issue 159, pp. 161–172.
• Verena Wetzstein: About strawberries, snails and turtles. Alzheimer's dementia and relatives with Annette Pehnt and Katharina Hacker . In: Yearbook Literature and Medicine , 4, 2010, pp. 169–184.
• Verena Auffermann: laudation for Katharina Hacker . In: Hubert Winkels (ed.): From one to ten & next. New German literature from the Düsseldorf literary prize winners . Lilienfeld-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2011, pp. 133-144 [volume also contains: Katharina Hacker: Geschöpf . Pp. 125-132].
• Joanne Leal: The interpersonal is political. Locating the ethical subject in Katharina Hacker's “Die habenichtse” . In: Angermion. Yearbook for Anglo-German literary criticism, intellectual history and cultural transfer , 4, 2011, pp. 165-182.
• Monika Shafi: New concept - new life. Bodies and buildings in Katharina Hacker's novel “Die habenichtse” . In: David N. Coury (Ed.): Globalization, German literature, and the New Economy . University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2011, pp. 434-446.
• Sara Tigges: "Life is the only thing we have". The lack of stability of the characters in the fiction of Katharina Hacker . In: Corinna Schlicht (Ed.): Voices of the Present. Contributions to literature, film and theater since the 1990s . Laufen, Oberhausen 2011, pp. 72–85.

Web links

Commons : Katharina Hacker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Katharina Hacker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Katharina Hacker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Katharina Hacker at filmportal.de
• Short biography and information on the work of Katharina Hacker at Literaturport
• Katharina Hacker's website
• Interpretations and list of works in the author's lexicon of the University of Duisburg-Essen / Faculty of Humanities - German Studies
• Annotated link collection of the university library of the FU Berlin ( memento from October 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• Chronicle of a breakdown . In: FAZ , about the rift with Suhrkamp Verlag
• Nuances. Music and personal questions: The writer Katharina Hacker in conversation with Sabine Küchler Deutschlandfunk , January 20, 2013
• Review by Skip
• Katharina Hacker in the Bergen-Enkheim town clerk archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Luisa Willmann: The house call: She loves the complicated . In: the daily newspaper . November 2, 2018 ( taz.de [accessed November 19, 2018]).
2. ↑ fiktion.cc ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.