Judith hermann neue erzählungen
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Judith Hermann: “Daheim”
Photo: © Michael WitteJudith Hermann was born in Berlin in 1970. Her debut book, Summer House, Later (1998), was greeted with great acclaim. The short-story collection Nothing but Ghosts followed in 2003. Some of these stories were adapted for film in 2007. In 2009 Hermann published the internationally acclaimed Alice, a collection of five short stories. In 2014 she brought out her first novel, Where Love Begins. This was followed in 2016 by the collection Lettipark, which won the Danish Blixen Prize for short stories. Hermann’s work has been honoured with numerous prizes, including the Kleist Prize and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. In spring 2021, she published the novel Home, which was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and awarded the Bremen Literature Prize 2022. Hermann lives and writes in Berlin.
Spiegel Bestseller and nominated for the 2021 Leipzig Book Fair Prize.
“Home”
In her new novel Home, Judith Hermann tells of a departure and an awakening: an old world is lost and a new one arises.The protagonist has left her former life behind, moved to the seaside, into her own house. She writes short letters to her ex-husband, telling him how her new l
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Lettipark: Erzählungen
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review
A work of subtle, perceptive autofiction from one of Germany’s most highly regarded contemporary voices, Wir hätten uns alles gesagt marks a turning point in Judith Hermann’s work. Though written in her characteristic melancholy, understated style, this series of three interconnected stories taken from the author’s own life confronts painful events and emotions head-on, sometimes to devastating effect.
Wir hätten uns alles gesagt was originally conceived as a series of three lectures for the Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen writing fellowship. The book is given its narrative framework when Hermann encounters her former analyst late one night and sits down with him for a drink. Writing about this unexpected encounter with a blend of subtle humour and nuanced consideration, she proceeds to draw us deep into her own life: her childhood in a dysfunctional family, excursions to a summer house on the Baltic coast, former friendships and relationships, settings that range from the North German seashore to dimly-lit bars in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg. As well as providing the impetus for the narrative, the period Hermann spent in psychoanalysis with Dr Dreehüs plays a major role in the first section of the book, as do dreams and the theme of female friendsh