Felicitas Hoppe

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Felicitas Hoppe
Felicitas Hoppe 2019
Felicitas Hoppe 2019
Born (1960-12-22) 22 December 1960 (age 63)
Hamelin, Lower Saxony, West Germany
OccupationWriter
NationalityGerman
Periodlate 20th – early 21st century
GenreNarrative

Felicitas Hoppe (born 22 December 1960) is a German writer. She received the Georg Büchner Prize in 2012.

Biography

Early years

Felicitas Hoppe was born in

Freien Universität Berlin.[1][2] In 2006 she was a visiting scholar at Dartmouth College. She worked as a dramaturge and journalist. Since 1996 she has been a freelance writer living in Berlin.[3]

Career

Her work often deals with transitory themes, as in "Picknick der Friseure", in a comical, but nevertheless thrilling way, which make her stories seem to be absurd. She also uses the technique of quotation for her novels, as in "Johanna", where she reconstructs the story of

Fräuleinwunder". She also writes children's books.[1]

For her work as a writer she received the following awards: in 1994

Roswitha-Preis.[1] In 2008 Hoppe held the Bert Brecht Gastprofessur at the University of Augsburg
.

In 2012, Hoppe was awarded the most prestigious literary prize in German literature, the

Works

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Felicitas Hoppe – Autorenlexikon". www.literaturport.de.
  2. ^ "Hoppe, Felicitas". munzinger.de. Munzinger Online/Personen – Internationales Biographisches Archiv. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Felicitas Hoppe". S. Fischer Verlage.
  4. ^ Michaela Holdenried: Anmerkungen zur postmodernen Zitationspraxis und Autorschaft im Werk von Felicitas Hoppe (pdf-Datei, 184 KB)
  5. ^ Tobias Bohm (15 May 2012). "Felicitas Hoppe erhält den Georg-Büchner-Preis 2012". boersenblatt.net. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
  6. ^ "Felicitas Hoppe bekommt Großen Preis des Literaturfonds". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Munich. dpa. 29 July 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  7. ^ "Zitternde Zeilen". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Frankfurt. 12 December 2000. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  8. ^ Detering, Heinrich (2 March 2012). "Eine ganze Horde von Stieren bei den Hörnern gepackt". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Frankfurt. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  9. ^ Krekeler, Elmar (17 March 2012). "Felicitas Hoppe". Die Welt (in German). Berlin. Retrieved 29 July 2020.

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