Anna Katharina Hahn

Anna Katharina Hahn is a German author.[1][2][3][4]

Anna Katharina Hahn
Born (1970-10-20) 20 October 1970
Ostfildern, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
OccupationAuthor
Alma materUniversity of Hamburg
SpouseJan Bürger
Children2

Life and works

Anna Katharina Hahn was born in Ruit (Ostfildern), a small town short distance to the south-east of Stuttgart.[5]

She attended secondary school in nearby Stuttgart. Hahn won her first literary prize while still at school, coming first in a short story competition organised by the city authorities in 1988.[1] On leaving school she enrolled at the Hamburg University where in 1995 she gained a "Magister degree" in Germanistics, Anglistics European Ethnology and Folklore.[2] From 1996 to 2001 she worked as a research assistant in the German Bible Archive and in the manuscripts department of the Hamburg State and University Library.[1]

Her first texts were academic in nature and dealt with the history of bibles in the late medieval period: at around the same time her literary texts began to appear in journals and anthologies.[1] There were also two volumes of short stories: "Sommerloch" published in 2000 and "Kavaliersdelikt" in 2004.[6]

In 2004 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann literary competition with her book "Kavaliersdelikt", which was listed for inclusion by Ursula März (as one of the jurors): on this occasion Hahn's book was not among the prize winners, however.

Her first full-length novel Kürzere Tage (Shorter Days) was published in 2009, and ranked ninth that year on a "SWR-Bestenliste".[2][7][lower-alpha 1]

Her 2012 novel, "Am Schwarzen Berg" (At the Black Mountain), deals playfully with motifs from Eduard Mörike, and was well received.[2][8]

Her novel "Das Kleid meiner Mutter" (My mother's dress), which appeared in 2016, deals with the impact of economic crisis in Spain. It received a more mixed response from at least some of the more mainstream German critics.[2][5][9]

Anna Katharina Hahn is a member of PEN Centre Germany. She lives with her husband, the writer, archivist and literary scholar Jan Bürger, and their sons in Stuttgart.[10]

Output (selection)
  • Sommerloch. (2000) a book of short stories.
  • Kavaliersdelikt. (2004) a book of short stories.
  • Kürzere Tage. (2009), novel.
  • Am Schwarzen Berg (2012) novel.
  • Das Kleid meiner Mutter (2016) novel.
  • Aus und davon (2020) novel.

Recognition

Notes
  1. The SWR-Bestenliste was inaugurated in 1975. It is a list of books compiled monthly, based on the recommendations of (in 2020) 30 literary critics.[7]

References
  1. "Anna Katharina Hahn, deutsche Schriftstellerin". Munzinger Archiv GmbH. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  2. "Hahn, Anna Katharina". Stadtbibliothek, Stuttgart. Zentrale der Stadtverwaltung. 13 July 2020. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  3. Stefan Kister (21 May 2020). "Grandioser Stuttgart-Roman". Buch-Tipp: Anna Katharina Hahn, „Aus und davon“. Stuttgarter Zeitung Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  4. Sebastian Hammelehle (13 March 2012). "Die Katastrophe lauert hinterm Mirabellenbaum". Berufs- und Liebesnöte, Trinker und gebildete Obdachlose: In ihrem Roman Anna Katharina Hahn beschreibt in "Am schwarzen Berg" äußerst stimmungsvoll die Welt jenseits der Fassade Stuttgarter Erfolgsmenschentums. Es ist eines der besten Bücher des Frühjahrs. Der Spiegel (online). Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  5. Elmar Krekeler, Redakteur Feuilleton (23 March 2016). "Die verlorene Generation schrumpft ihre Eltern". Axel Springer SE (Welt), Berlin. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  6. Pascal Ashun; Svenja Bedner; Robin Exner; Inga Murawski. "Anna Katharina Hahn". Kurzbiographie. Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE). Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  7. "Platz 9, 27 Punkte .... Anna Katharinas Hahn: Kürzere Tage". Leichtere Lektüre. Südwestrundfunk, Stuttgart. 22 April 2009. ISBN 3-518-42057-7. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  8. Patrick Bahners (7 March 2012). "Was übel anfängt, geht auch böse aus". Anna Katharina Hahn erhebt die Kinderlosigkeit zum Exempel für das bürgerliche Problem des ungelebten Lebens. Ihr Roman „Am Schwarzen Berg" ist eine ebenso gruselige wie großartige Milieustudie. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  9. Ijoma Mangold (28 July 2016). "Zu wild für den Literaturbetrieb". Anna Katharina Hahns prätentiöser Roman "Das Kleid meiner Mutter". Die Zeit (online). Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  10. Julia Schröder (18 November 2009). "Irgendwann hört der Spaß auf". Das Buch: Beilagen zu den Stuttgarter Buchwochen. Stuttgarter Zeitung. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  11. Stipendiaten-Archiv der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, accessed August 2020
  12. "Roswitha-Preis für Anna Katharina Hahn". Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine (in German). 8 September 2010. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  13. Dupré, Johanna (4 October 2017). "Anna Katharina Hahn wird neue Mainzer Stadtschreiberin". Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Mainz. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
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