Katharina Hacker
Katharina Hacker is a German author best known for her award-winning novel Die Habenichtse. Hacker studied philosophy, history and Jewish studies at the University of Freiburg and the University of Jerusalem. Her studies in Israel have been seen as an attempt to redo the strong anti Semitic feelings of her Silesian grandmother. She did not finish her studies with an academic degree. Since 1996 she has been living as a freelance writer in Berlin.
In 2006 she was the second writer to be awarded the German Book Prize for Die Habenichtse. In this and other works, Hacker examines the consequences of globalization and neoliberalism on the working life, social relations, and family interactions of her German protagonists.Works
- Tel Aviv. Eine Stadterzählung
- Morpheus oder Der Schnabelschuh
- Der Bademeister
- Eine Art Liebe
- Die Habenichtse
- Überlandleitung
- Alix, Anton und die anderen
- Die Erdbeeren von Antons Mutter
- Eine Dorfgeschichte
Translations
- Leah Aini: Eine muß da sein. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1997,
- Jossi Avni: Der Garten der toten Bäume. Novel in 15 parts, Hamburg 2000; new edition: Hamburg 2006
