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Name
  
Bodo Kirchhoff

Role
  
Writer


Spouse
  
Ulrike Bauer (m. 1952)

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Manila

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Children
  
Claudius Kirchhoff, Sophia Kirchhoff

Books
  
Ohne Eifer, ohne Zorn

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Bodo Kirchhoff (born 6 July 1948) is a German writer and novelist. He was born in Hamburg. In addition to writing literary fiction, he has worked on various projects for German television. One of his best-known novels is Infanta (1990), which has been translated into more than a dozen languages.

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Life

Bodo Kirchhoff studied pedagogy at Frankfurt University from 1972 to 1979 and completed his doctoral thesis on Jacques Lacan. During this period he was noticed by Suhrkamp, and published a both a novel and a play in 1979 and then went on to become a prolific author and multiple prize winner.

In 2010 Kirchhoff revealed in an article in Der Spiegel that as a twelve-year-old schoolboy he had been sexually abused by the choirmaster at his boarding school by Lake Constance. He has said that his work, as a consequence, often has as its theme "the reconciliation between sexuality and language"

Awards

  • 1989: Villa-Massimo-Stipendium, Rom
  • 1999: Bayerischer Filmpreis – Award for Screenplay
  • 2001: Rheingau Literatur Preis
  • 2002: Deutscher Kritikerpreis
  • 2002: Preis der LiteraTour Nord
  • 2008: Carl-Zuckmayer-Medaille for Services to the German Language
  • 2012: Shortlisted for the German Book Prize with Die Liebe in groben Zügen
  • 2016: Winner of the German Book Prize with Widerfahrnis
  • References

    Bodo Kirchhoff Wikipedia


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