Bodo Kirchhoff Explained

Bodo Kirchhoff (born 6 July 1948) is a German writer and novelist.[1] He was born in Hamburg before moving with his family to Kirchzarten in the Black Forest in 1955, which he describes as a culture shock.[2] In addition to writing literary fiction, he has worked on various projects for German television, such as long-runner Tatort, and has written movie screenplays. One of his best-known novels is Infanta (1990), which has been translated into more than a dozen languages.[3] In 2016, his novel, which features an African migrant in Italy, Encounter won the German Book Prize.[4]

Life

Kirchhoff received his high school diploma in 1968. He then spent two years in the military, followed by a year selling ice cream in the United States.[2] From 1972 to 1979, he studied pedagogy and psychology at Frankfurt University and completed his doctoral thesis on Jacques Lacan. During this period, he was noticed by Suhrkamp, with whom he published until he switched to Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, and published a both a novel and a play in 1979, beginning his career as a prolific author and multiple prize winner.

In the 1980s, he traveled extensively and wrote for the magazine TransAtlantik. In 1993, he evaluated the German Army's participation in UNOSOM.[5] After this, he was the 1994–95 Lecturer at the prestigious Frankfurt lectures.[6]

In 2010, Kirchhoff revealed in an article in Der Spiegel[7] that as a twelve-year-old schoolboy, he had been sexually abused by the choirmaster at his boarding school, which he began attending in 1959, after the divorce of his parents, by Lake Constance. He has said that his work, as a consequence, often has as its theme "the reconciliation between sexuality and language"[8]

Family

In 1987, he married editor and lecturer Ulrike Bauer. Together they have two children, Claudius, born 1988, and Sophia, born 1993. Since 2003, they have offered week-long writing courses at the cost of €1900 at their home in Italy.

Awards

Reviews for Encounter

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Screenplays

Works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bodo Kirchhoff, Writer | DW | 06.04.2013. DW.COM.
  2. Web site: Der Autor.
  3. Web site: Fiction Book Review: Infanta by Bodo Kirchhoff, Author, Bodo Kirchoff, Author Viking Books; ISBN 978-0-670-84261-2. PublishersWeekly.com.
  4. Web site: Bodo Kirchhoff Wins the German Book Prize 2016. October 18, 2016. Publishing Perspectives.
  5. 40034000. A Response to Brigitte H. Schulz's Review of Impossible Missions?. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 39. 1. 134–135. Berman. Nina. 2006.
  6. Web site: Goethe-Universität — Archiv | Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen. uni-frankfurt.de.
  7. "Erinnerungen: Sprachloses Kind", Der Spiegel 11/2010, S. 150.
  8. Web site: Archived copy . 2017-01-19 . 2015-09-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924124138/http://www.rundschau-online.de/kultur/bodo-kirchhoff-im-interview--liebe-ist-das-schwierigste-thema-,15184894,29833568.html . dead .
  9. Web site: Stipendien . Villa Massimo . de . 4 December 2021.
  10. Die Liebe in groben Zügen. Roman. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2012, .
  11. Web site: Bodo Kirchhoff Wins the German Book Prize 2016 – Publishing Perspectives. Publishing Perspectives. 15 December 2016. 18 October 2016.
  12. Widerfahrnis. Novelle. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2016, .
  13. Bodo Kirchhoff Wins the German Book Prize 2016. Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels. e.V. www.prnewswire.com.
  14. News: Warum die Auszeichnung von "Widerfahrnis" keine gute Entscheidung ist. Der Tagesspiegel Online. 17 October 2016 . Bartels . Gerrit .
  15. Web site: Bodo Kirchhoff: "Widerfahrnis". Bayerischer Rundfunk. Jochen Rack. 15 September 2016. www.br.de.

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