Johanna

by Felicitas Hoppe

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170 pages, Paperback

First published August 17, 2006

About the author

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 Joan of Arc using official case records.[1] As a relatively young, successful and female writer, she belongs to a group of writers which literary criticism calls the "Fräuleinwunder".

For her work as a writer she received the following awards: in 1994 Alfred-Döblin-Stipendium (a scholarship), in 1996 Aspekte-Literaturpreis and the Ernst-Willner-Preis at the Festival of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt, in 1997 the Rauriser Literaturpreis, in 2004 the Nicolas Born-Preis des Landes Niedersachsen, the Heimito von Doderer-Literaturpreis and the Spycher: Literaturpreis Leuk, in 2005 the Brüder-Grimm-Preis der Stadt Hanau. In 2005 she also held the Poetikdozentur: junge Autoren der Fachhochschule Wiesbaden. In 2007 she received Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen and the Roswitha-Preis. In 2008 Hoppe held the Bert Brecht Gastprofessur at the University of Augsburg.

In 2012, Felicitas Hoppe was awarded the most prestigious literary prize in German literature, the Georg Büchner Prize.

Reviews

[Meli Montes · Rating 1 out of 5]

1⭐

Einfach nein. Mehr kann ich dazu auch beim besten Willen nicht sagen 🤷‍♀️

[Petya · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ging gar nicht.

[zelda06 · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ho dovuto leggere la versione italiana di questo libro perché una mia professoressa di università ne ha curato l’edizione.Che dire…terribile! L’autrice cerca di usare il flusso di pensiero rendendo però la lettura difficile da comprendere e priva di una sintassi che funziona. Si capisce poche volte effettivamente cosa sta succedendo e io non sono nuova a questa tecnica narrativa. Se non l’avessi avuto nel programma del corso avrei smesso di leggere a pagina 2.