Dörte Hansen (today Dörte Hansen-Jaax, born 1964 in Husum, West Germany) is a German linguist, journalist and writer.

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Life

Hansen grew up in Högel in Nordfriesland;[1] her family spoke Low German at home. She learned her "first foreign language," Standard German, in elementary school.[2]

After graduating high school in 1984, she studied sociolinguistics, English studies, Romance studies and Frisian studies at the Christian Albrechts University Kiel. In 1994, Hansen received her doctorate at the University of Hamburg with a sociolinguistic thesis on a special form of bilingualism.

Hansen is married to documentary filmmaker Sven Jaax and has a daughter. From 2005 to 2016, she lived with her family in Steinkirchen (Altes Land)[1] and now lives in Husum.[3]

Work

After an internship at the magazine Merian she worked until 2008 as a journalist for several radio stations (NDR, WDR, SWR, hr, DLF) and various magazines,[4] until 2012 then as a permanent cultural editor at NDR Info.[2][5] Since then, she has worked as a freelance author.

In her first novel, Altes Land (2015), Hansen worked critically on the subject of homeland: many city dwellers discovered the countryside as a place of longing for themselves and moved to a village. In Hansen's opinion, however, they were subject to a mistake because they only played country life and made "peasant theater".[2] Hansen connects this topic with the fate of the female protagonist as a homeless postwar refugee from East Prussia in the Altes Land. The book was a bestseller and received praise from most critics.[6]

Her second novel Mittagsstunde (2018) also received a lot of critical praise[7] and explores German village life. The cultural and interpersonal change in the fictional North Frisian village "Brinkebüll" is portrayed from the 1960s to the present day. The author tells the story without idealizing country life and draws in laconic language often "bizarre characters with a lot of empathy."[8]

Memberships

• PEN Centre Germany

Awards

• 2006: Media Prize of the foundation "Children's Rights in the One World" in the radio category for her NDR reportage Der Hamburger Kompass – Hilfe für Kinder alkoholkranker Eltern.[9]
• 2015: "Lieblingsbuch des Jahres des unabhängigen Buchhandels" for Altes Land.[10]
• 2016: Usedomer Literaturpreis for Altes Land.
• 2019: Rheingau Literatur Preis for Mittagsstunde
• 2019: Niederdeutscher Literaturpreis der Stadt Kappeln[11]
• 2019: Grimmelshausen Literaturpreis for Mittagsstunde[12]
• 2022: Mainzer Stadtschreiber[13]

Publications (selection)

• Tou latje tääle. In: Nils Århammar, Christina Tadsen, Ommo Wilts (Hrsg.): Skriiw fresk, Schriw frasch, Skriiv friisk. Teksten tu a fresk literatüürweedstridj 1989/90. Nordfriisk Instituut, Bräist/Bredstedt NF 1993, ISBN 3-88007-205-1.
• Transfer bei Diglossie. Synchrone Sprachkontaktphänomene im Niederdeutschen. Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-86064-292-8 (Zugleich Dissertation Universität Hamburg).
• "An weißer Milch klebt rotes Blut!" – Pastor Skrivers vegane Utopie. In: Nordfriisk Instituut (Hrsg.): Nordfriesland Nr. 164, Bräist/Bredstedt NF, December 2008, ISSN 0029-1196.
• Fürchte dich nicht vor dem Familienberater. Reportage. In: Chrismon, December 2009.[14]
• Altes Land. Roman, Knaus, München 2015, ISBN 978-3-8135-0647-1. (Number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from June 20 to July 31 and from August 8 to September 4, 2015)
  • Altes Land. Hörbuch, gekürzte Lesung von Hannelore Hoger, 4 CD, c. 5 Std. 13 Min., Random House Audio, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8371-3089-8.
  • Altes Land. Hörspiel nach Motiven aus dem Buch, Bearbeitung und Regie Wolfgang Seesko, Radio Bremen 2016.
• Mittagsstunde. Roman, Penguin Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-328-60003-9.
  • Mittagsstunde. Hörbuch, ungekürzte Lesung von Hannelore Hoger, 11 Std. und 31 Min., Random House Audio, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8371-4278-5.
  • Mittagsstunde (Movie)[15]

References

External links

• Literature by and about Dörte Hansen in the German National Library catalogue
• Rezension von Altes Land auf den Seiten des Goethe-Instituts

На других языках

[de] Dörte Hansen