Dörte Hansen

Dörte Hansen (also known as Dörte Hansen-Jaax, born 1964 in Husum, West Germany)^[1] is a German linguist, journalist and writer.

Dörte Hansen
Hansen at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018
Born	1964 (age 59–60) Husum, West Germany
Occupation	Writer, journalist
Language	Low German German
Notable awards	Grimmelshausen-Preis (2019) Rheingau Literatur Preis (2019) Mainzer Stadtschreiber (2022)

Life

Hansen grew up in Högel in Nordfriesland;^[2] her family spoke Low German at home. She learned her "first foreign language," Standard German, in elementary school.^[3]

After graduating high school (Abitur) 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.^[4]

Hansen is married to documentary filmmaker Sven Jaax [frr] and has a daughter. From 2005 to 2016, she lived with her family in Steinkirchen, Lower Saxony^[5] and now lives in Husum.^[6]

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,^[7] until 2012 then as a permanent cultural editor at NDR Info.^[3] 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".^[3] 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.^[8]

Her second novel Mittagsstunde (2018) 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.^[9] The author tells the story without idealizing country life and draws in laconic language often bizarre characters with a lot of empathy.^[10][11]

Memberships

• PEN Centre Germany^[12]

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.^[13]
• 2015: Lieblingsbuch des Jahres des unabhängigen Buchhandels [de] for Altes Land.^[14]
• 2016: Usedomer Literaturpreis [de] for Altes Land^[15]
• 2019: Rheingau Literatur Preis for Mittagsstunde^[16]
• 2019: Niederdeutscher Literaturpreis der Stadt Kappeln^[17]
• 2019: Grimmelshausen Literaturpreis for Mittagsstunde^[18]
• 2022: Mainzer Stadtschreiber^[19]
• 2022: Kunstpreis des Landes Schleswig-Holstein [de]^[20]

Publications

• Århammar, Nils; Tadsen, Christina; Wilts, Ommo (1993). Skriiw fresk; Schriw frasch; Skriiv friisk : teksten tu a fresk literatüürweedstridj 1989/90 (in Western Frisian). Bräist/Bredstedt, NF: Nordfriisk Instituut. ISBN 3-88007-205-1. OCLC 28586962.
• Hansen-Jaax, Dörte (1995). Transfer bei Diglossie : synchrone Sprachkontaktphänomene im Niederdeutschen (in German). Hamburg: Kovač. ISBN 3-86064-292-8. OCLC 36252582.
• Fürchte dich nicht vor dem Familienberater. Reportage. In: Chrismon, December 2009.^[21]
• Hansen, Dörte (2015). Altes Land Roman. München. ISBN 978-3-8135-0647-1. OCLC 897545345.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (Der Spiegel Bestseller list number 1)^[22]
• Hansen, Dörte (2018). Mittagsstunde Roman (in German). München. ISBN 978-3-328-60003-9. OCLC 1034623603.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (Der Spiegel Bestseller list number 1)^[22]
• Hansen, Dörte; Greibich, Bernd; Rauda (2019). Chronik der Gemeinde Rauda 1219–2019 (in German). Rauda: Gemeinde Rauda. OCLC 1162615623.
• Hansen, Dörte (2022). Zur See : Roman (in German). München. ISBN 978-3-328-60222-4. OCLC 1309075300.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)^[23][24] (Der Spiegel Bestseller list number 2)^[25]

Translations

• Hansen, Dörte; Stokes, Anne Marie (2016). This house is mine. New York. ISBN 978-1-250-10085-6. OCLC 952567164.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Hansen, Dörte; Hanišová, Viktorie (2016). Starý kraj [Altes Land] (in Czech). Brno. ISBN 978-80-7491-588-8. OCLC 950621108.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Hansen, Dörte; Hanišová, Viktorie (2019). Polední hodina [Mittagsstunde] (in Czech). Brno. ISBN 978-80-7491-283-2. OCLC 1130266843.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Hansen, Dörte; Pruijs, Lucienne (2016). Het oude land [Altes Land] (in Dutch). [Amsterdam]. ISBN 978-94-027-1330-5. OCLC 955350043.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Audio books

• Hoger, Hannelore; Stockmann, Wolfgang (2015), Altes Land (audio book) (in German), Munich, ISBN 978-3-8371-3089-8, OCLC 950477703{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Hoger, Hannelore (2018), Mittagsstunde (audio book) (in German), Munich, ISBN 978-3-8371-4278-5, OCLC 1073860798{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Hoss, Nina (2022), Zur See (audio book) (in German), Munich, ISBN 978-3-8371-6068-0, OCLC 1344386020{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Film versions

• 2020: Altes Land [de], director: Sherry Hormann^[26][27]
• 2022: Mittagsstunde, director: Lars Jessen [de]^[28][29]

References

1. "Dörte Hansen". Munzinger Biographie (in German). Retrieved 27 November 2022.
2. "Dörte Hansen spricht mit Mann und Tochter viel Plattdeutsch". presseportal.de (in German). 16 September 2022. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
3. . RadioBremen.de (in German). Archived from the original on 24 March 2016.
4. Schreiber, Tim (8 April 2021). "Schreiben kann schrecklich sein – Geschrieben haben ist wunderbar". Universität Hamburg (in German). Retrieved 27 November 2022.
5. "Dörte Hansens "Altes Land": Besuch am Set des ZDF-Zweiteilers". Hamburger Abendblatt (in German). 24 April 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
6. Vita in Chrismon, March 2017, p. 14 a.
7. "Bestseller-Autorin Dörte Hansen surft die Welle". Focus (in German). 30 July 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
8. "Bestseller-Autorin Dörte Hansen surft die Welle". Süddeutsche.de (in German). 30 July 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
9. Magenau, Jörg (20 December 2018). ""Mittagsstunde" Dörte Hansen: Brinkebüll ist überall". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 27 November 2022.
10. "Mittagsstunde". rezensionen.ch (in German). Retrieved 27 November 2022.
11. Schellhase, Andrea (23 October 2018). "Dörte Hansens bewegender Roman "Mittagsstunde"". vitaLibris (in German). Retrieved 27 November 2022.
12. . PEN-Zentrum Deutschland (in German). Archived from the original on 19 April 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
13. "Gewinner des Kinderrechte-Medienpreises 2006 stehen fest/ Kindernothilfe-Stiftung zeichnet fünf Journalisten in Berlin aus". presseportal.de (in German). 12 November 2006. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
14. Wahlsieg für "Altes Land" von Dörte Hansen, auf boersenblatt.net vom 16.
15. "Dörte Hansen". Usedomer Literaturtage (in German). Retrieved 27 November 2022.
16. "Rheingau-Literatur-Preis für Dörte Hansen". rbbKultur (in German). Retrieved 27 November 2022.
17. Niederdeutscher Literaturpreis der Stadt Kappeln. In kappeln.de. accessed 9 November 2019.
18. Grimmelshausenpreis 2019: Preisträgerinnen stehen fest. 4 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine In gelnhausen.de. accessed 4 December 2019.
19. "Dörte Hansen wird Mainzer Stadtschreiberin". Süddeutsche.de (in German). 11 November 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
20. "Kunstpreis des Landes Schleswig-Holstein für Dörte Hansen". NDR Mediathek (in German). 22 September 2022. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
21. "Fürchte dich nicht vor dem Familienberater". chrismon (in German). Retrieved 27 November 2022.
22. Fitzek, Sebastian; Hansen, Dörte; Garmus, Bonnie; Link, Charlotte; Hoover, Colleen (30 September 2022). ""Zur See" ist Dörte Hansens nächster Bestseller". buchreport (in German). Retrieved 27 November 2022.
23. "Dörte Hansen fährt in ihrem neuen Roman "Zur See"". Süddeutsche.de (in German). 28 September 2022. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
24. Jeska, Andrea (6 October 2022). "Bei Dörte Hansen gibt's kein Happy End". NZZ Magazin (in German). Retrieved 27 November 2022.
25. "Spiegel Bestsellerliste: Dörte Hansen mit "Zur See" direkt auf Platz 2". Charts – Lesering.de (in German). 29 September 2022. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
26. "Altes Land". filmportal.de (in German). Retrieved 27 November 2022.
27. "Altes Land". ZDFmediathek (in German). 6 September 2022. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
28. Kuhn, Doris (22 September 2022). ""Mittagsstunde" im Kino: Es war einmal ein Dorf". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 27 November 2022.
29. "Ab 22. September 2022 im Kino!". Mittagsstunde. Retrieved 27 November 2022.

Further reading

• Steensen, Thomas (2020). Nordfriesland – Menschen von A bis Z (in German). Husum, Nordsee: Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH u. Co. KG. ISBN 978-3-96717-027-6. OCLC 1162620898.

External links

• "Heimatgefühle – Über das Fliehen und Ankommen". Goethe Institute (in German). 4 October 2022. Retrieved 27 November 2022.