Wir hätten uns alles gesagt

  • Judith Hermann is one of Germany's most prestigious and sucessfull contemporary authors
  • Recommendation by New Books in German available here (Spring 2023)
  • English sample translation available here

Eine Kindheit in unkonventionellen Verhältnissen, das geteilte Berlin, Familienbande und Wahlverwandtschaften, lange, glückliche Sommer am Meer. Judith Hermann spricht über ihr Schreiben und ihr Leben, über das, was Schreiben und Leben zusammenhält und miteinander verbindet. Wahrheit, Erfindung und Geheimnis – Wo beginnt eine Geschichte und wo hört sie auf? Wie verlässlich ist unsere Erinnerung, wie nah sind unsere Träume an der Wirklichkeit.

Wie in ihren Romanen und Erzählungen fängt Judith Hermann in »Wir hätten uns alles gesagt« ein ganzes Lebensgefühl ein: Mit klarer poetischer Stimme erzählt sie von der empfindsamen Mitte des Lebens, von Freundschaft, Aufbruch und Freiheit.

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  • Publisher: FISCHER Taschenbuch
  • Release: 28.08.2024
  • ISBN: 978-3-596-71036-2
  • 192 Pages
  • Author: Judith Hermann
Wir hätten uns alles gesagt
Judith Hermann Wir hätten uns alles gesagt
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Judith Hermann

Judith Hermann was born in Berlin in 1970. Her debut story collection Summerhouse, Later (1998) was extremely well received. It was then followed in 2003 by the story collection Nothing But Ghosts , and several of the stories contained in the latter were adapted for film in 2007. In 2009, she published Alice , five short stories that received international acclaim. Her first novel, Where Love Beginns , came out in 2014. It was followed in 2016 by the short story collection Lettipark , which was awarded the Danish Blixen Prize for Short Stories. Hermann has received numerous awards for her work, including the Kleist Prize and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. Her novel Home was published in spring 2021. It was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and received the Bremen Literature Prize in 2022. Most recently, S. Fischer published We'd Have Told Each Other Everything , based on the Frankfurt poetry lectures given by Judith Hermann in spring 2022. The author received the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize for this work. Judith Hermann lives and writes in Berlin.