Occupation novelist Name Julia Franck Awards German Book Prize Movies West | Notable works Die Mittagsfrau Nationality German Role Writer | |
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Born February 20, 1970 (age 54)
Berlin, East Germany ( 1970-02-20 ) Books The Blindness of the Heart, The Blind Side of the Heart, Back to Back Similar People Christian Schwochow, Jordis Triebel, Heide Schwochow | ||
Education Free University of Berlin Notable awards German Book Prize
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Julia Franck (born 20 February 1970 in East Berlin) is a German writer.
Contents
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- Life
- Literary works
- Family connections
- Awards and honours
- Works
- Translations
- Film adaptions
- References
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Life
Julia Franck, a twin, is the daughter of the actress Anna Franck and of the television producer Jürgen Sehmisch.
In 1978 the family moved to West Berlin where they spent nine months in a refugee camp. and later to Schleswig-Holstein. Franck studied German Literature and American Studies at the Free University of Berlin and spent some time in the United States, Mexico and Guatemala. She worked as an editor for Sender Freies Berlin and contributed to various newspapers and magazines. She lives with her children in Berlin.
Literary works
Franck is the author of five novels, one short story collections, and the editor of a collection of essays. Her three most recent novels, Lagerfeuer, Die Mittagsfrau, and Rücken an Rücken, as well as the collection Grenzübergänge, engage explicitly with twentieth-century German history. Lagerfeuer is set in the West Berlin refugee camp Berlin-Marienfelde in the 1970s and follows four main characters, one of whom, Nelly Senff, has fled East Berlin with her two young children. Rücken an Rücken is also set during the years of Germany's division, ending in the early 1960s, and Die Mittagsfrau spans from World War I to divided Germany of the 1950s.
Although Franck has not described herself as a feminist author, feminist scholars have noted her presentation of women's experience of history, power structures, sexuality, and relationships (such as motherhood).
Julia Franck's books have been translated into over 35 languages, including Albanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, Greek, English, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Croatian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Rumanian, Swedish, Serbian, Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Taiwanese, Czech, Turkish, Hungarian and Belarusian
Family connections
Franck is the granddaughter of sculptor Ingeborg Hunzinger (1915-2009) and a great granddaughter of the artist and illustrator Philipp Franck (1860-1944).
Awards and honours
Works
Translations
. Rebecca Solnit. Aus der nahen Ferne. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2014.
Film adaptions
West, a 2013 German film adaptation of the novel Lagerfeuer opened in US-American theatres on November 7, 2014.