Patrick Hofmann

Patrick Hofmann (born December 24, 1971 in Borna ) is a German writer. He lives in Berlin .

Life and work

Hofmann received his Abitur in 1990 at the Extended High School in Grimma. After his community service he studied philosophy , German literature and history in Berlin , Leipzig , Moscow and Strasbourg . In 2002 he did his doctorate at the Humboldt University in Berlin on Edmund Husserl's theory of description. After that he lived and worked in Athens for seven years .

In 2008 Hofmann published his first literary work with Drei Erzählungen . In the following year his debut novel The Last Sau was published , which was awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 2010 .

Works (selection)

• Nail in Heaven (novel). Penguin Verlag, Munich 2020 ISBN 978-3-328-60128-9
• “Working on death. Sankt Chernobyl “, in: Mercury. German journal for European thinking , Stuttgart 2010, issue 734
• The last pig (novel). Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2009 ISBN 978-3-89561-480-4
• "Three stories", in: Sense and Form - Contributions to Literature , Berlin 2008, Issue 4, ISSN  0037-5756

• Phenomenon and description. On Edmund Husserl's logical investigations (dissertation). Fink, Munich 2004 ISBN 978-3-7705-4044-0

Web links

• Short biography and reviews of works by Patrick Hofmann at perlentaucher.de
• under his pseudonym Emma Kobilke, you can keep your dead dogs at: boersenblatt.net (January 9, 2012), accessed on May 5, 2020.
• Reviews of The Last Pig :
  • Michael Martens, battle scenes of the turning point on: faz.net (October 23, 2009), accessed on May 5, 2020.
  • Nils Kahlefendt, The beautiful butcher on: deutschlandfunk.de (March 5, 2010), accessed on May 5, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Author entry on: literaturport.de, accessed on May 5, 2020.
2. ↑ Author information on: schoeffling.de, accessed on May 5, 2020.
3. ↑ Robert Walser Prize for Patrick Hofmann at: boersenblatt.net (January 19, 2010), accessed on May 5, 2020.