Franca Düwel
Franca Düwel (* 1967 ) is a German author and screenwriter .
Life
Düwel studied literature and education and began working as a screenwriter after various positions in the film industry. She lives with her family, consisting of her husband and daughters, near Hamburg .
Work (excerpt)
Under the pseudonym Katharina Mestre (also Katherina Mestre), Düwel conceived the children's crime series Die Pfefferkörner and wrote the scripts for episodes 1 to 23. She also wrote some scripts for later seasons as well as the concept for seasons 7 and 8. The series has won several awards nominated and awarded, u. a. with the Golden Sparrow . In addition, Düwel wrote several episodes of the award-winning ARD series Berlin, Berlin . Düwel published her debut novel with the title "Julie and Snow White - It always gets worse", illustrated by Katja Spitzer, in 2009 at Arena Verlag . Since then, the serial volumes "Julie and the black sheep", "Julie and the heart mess" as well as "Julie and the question what boys want" and "Julie and the eighth heaven" have been published by the same publisher.
Julie and Snow White
content
“Julie and Snow White” is a diary novel written by the 12-year-old protagonist Julie. Every entry in the diary begins with the highs and lows of the day. Julie struggles with her parents, overwhelmed by her newborn sister, her former best friend at school, the cutest boy in the world and a classmate who needs help but does not want to be helped. Julie's diary is used to “talk”, followed by Sharon from the phone sex hotline from the night program. Finally, in addition to all other problems, Julie has to put saving her parents' marriage on her to-do list.
Characters
- Julie Ahlberg
Julie is twelve years old and has just become a sister. With the new baby, the parents have little time for Julie, so she turns to other people to talk to about her problems. Julie thinks her life consists of more low points than high points ...
- Ottilie
Ottilie is actually called Eva and is Julie's little sister. If she had turned out to be a boy, her name would have been Otto, and Julie thinks Ottilie suits her better. While her appearance reminds Julie at first of a "bright red, bald-headed dwarf", Julie quickly notices that she "loves Ottilie very much".
- Mr. and Mrs. Ahlberg
Julie's parents. While her mother struggles with hormone fluctuations after the birth of Ottilie and cries all the time, the father in the advertising agency has to worry about a prestigious contract and risks getting the loser contract for the dog food advertising.
- Mumi
Mumi is Julie's maternal grandmother. She is currently in a phase of self-discovery and has taken a vow of silence. So she will be unable to speak to Julie for a long time.
- Hanna
Hanna is the most popular girl in the class. Whoever belongs to their clique is automatically popular. However, whoever is on her final list has as good as lost. She turns out to be more arrogant and mean than Julie would have ever thought possible.
- Sharina
Scharina is Hanna's favorite victim. She lives in a - euphemistically - difficult family environment, as Julie involuntarily realizes. Scharina stubbornly defends herself against Julie's attempts to help.
- Ben
Ben is 14 and Julie's neighbor. With blond curls and blue eyes, the cutest boy in the world. Julie doesn't understand that until it's already too late. Ben likes Julie and Julie likes Ben, and there is still a lot that can go wrong.
- Sharon
Sharon also works on the phone sex hotline and becomes Julie's listener and advisor at times when everything is terrible and neither girlfriend, parents nor grandmother are available to talk to.
genre
Like the letter novel, a diary novel is a form of the first-person novel . This type is characterized by the lack of narrative additions. The text consists solely of the notes of the character in the novel. The main character is either the acting person or an eyewitness of the event. A diary novel is always monoperspective, while the letter novel can be structured both monoperspectival and multi-perspective. The latter is the case when there is an exchange of letters between two or more people. Another characteristic of both types is the focus on feelings and sensations of the diary or letter writer.
The best-known example of a diary novel in German children's and youth literature is The Diary of Anne Frank . A famous example of a letter novel is Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther . An example of a letter novel in the youth book area is Dear Tracey, dear Mandy by the Australian author John Marsden, nominated in 1996 for the German Youth Literature Prize in the youth book category (original title: Letters from the Inside).
Implementation in other media
The audio book on Julie and Snow White was published at the same time as the book in June 2009. It will be read by Josefine Preuß , who played one of the leading roles in the ARD series Turkish for Beginners , which was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize .
Web links
- Literature by and about Franca Düwel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Screenwriter Katharina Mestre, Vita
- Series: The Peppercorns
- Interview with Franca Düwel
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Düwel, Franca |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mestre, Katharina (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |