Margit Hähner

Margit Hähner in December 2009 at a reading in the Lenau Forum, Cologne-Ehrenfeld

Margit Hähner (born November 17, 1960 in Leverkusen ) is a German writer.

Hähner studied German and Catholic theology at the University of Cologne and worked for many years on a voluntary and full-time basis in the Catholic Young Community (KJG). At the beginning of the 1990s she began publishing poetry and prose .

She was a member of the Association of German Writers (VS) in the ver.di regional association of North Rhine-Westphalia . In 2002 she was elected to the board and from 2006 until her resignation at the regional assembly on April 25, 2009, she was the regional chairman of the association. From 2004 she was spokeswoman for the Cologne district ; on December 31, 2009 she resigned with the entire district executive committee and at the same time declared her resignation from the service union.

Margit Hähner is a juror for the German Record Critics' Prize and a member of the PEN Center Germany . She lives in Cologne .

Publications

• No two men are too many. Novel. Reclam, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3379016454
• Also just a man novel. Reclam. Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3379015938
• No man without risk. Novel. Reclam, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3379016721
• Playball of the gods. Novel. Gmeiner, Meßkirch 2012, ISBN 978-3-8392-1269-1
• Contributions to anthologies, magazines and newspapers

Web links

• Literature by and about Margit Hähner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Web presence of the author