Peter Henning (writer)

2010 in Frankfurt am Main

Peter Henning (* 1959 in Hanau ) is a German journalist and writer . He has lived in Cologne since 2005 .

Life

Peter Henning studied German and philosophy in Frankfurt am Main . Since 1985 he has worked as a freelance journalist for various German newspapers and radio stations , and later he became head of the literature department at the Swiss World Week . Since 2015 he has been a lecturer at the University of Cologne at the Germanistic seminar creative writing .

Peter Henning is the author of novels , short stories and poems . In 1984 he received the Culture Prize of the Main-Kinzig District , and in 1996 the Literature Prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation . For the novel project “The Chronicle of Missed Happiness” he received an Eastern European grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation , Stuttgart.

Works

• Light and shadow. Schmanke, Hanau am Main 1984, ISBN 3-924464-00-6
• Park stories and others. Schlender, Göttingen 1984, ISBN 3-88051-041-5
• As the editor: pack up and go. Byblos, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-929029-32-4 (travel stories)
• Death of a kingfisher. Novel. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-462-02609-7
• Off track. A story. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-39656-0
• Giants. 18 stories. Residence, Salzburg [a. a.] 2002, ISBN 3-7017-1303-0
• Linda and the planes. Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-23994-9
• The fearful. Novel. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3351-03267-8
• Slight tremor. Novel. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3351033569
• The beautiful shadow. Sea novella . Transit Buchverlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-88747-269-6
• A German summer. Novel. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-35103-542-6
• The Chronicle of Missed Happiness. Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-630-87446-3
• My butterfly year. A travel report. Konrad Theiss, Darmstadt 2018, ISBN 978-3-8062-3687-3
• The able. Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-630-87447-0
• The dead of Sant Andreu. Novel. Transit Buchverlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-88747-375-4

Web links

Commons : Peter Henning  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Peter Henning in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Peter Henning at perlentaucher.de
• Stories and reviews by Henning in the online magazine faust - accessed on October 23, 2018
• Deutsche Welle: Peter Henning - My Love for Butterflies TV interview (2018) on the book My Butterfly Year

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefanie Jahnke: cultural communication. Artists. Peter Henning , accessed October 19, 2018.
2. ^ University of Cologne. Philosophical Faculty. Lecturers of IDSL I , accessed on October 19, 2018.
3. ↑ Writing workshop of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation 2012 , accessed on October 19, 2018.
4. ↑ Knowledge, education, community. Peter Henning , accessed October 19, 2018.