Julia Franck Explained

Julia Franck
Birth Place:	East Berlin, East Germany
Occupation:	novelist
Nationality:	German
Notableworks:	Die Mittagsfrau

Julia Franck (born 1970, in East Berlin) is a German writer.

Life

Julia Franck, a twin,^[1] is the daughter of the actress Anna Katharina Franck and of the television producer Jürgen Sehmisch.^[2]

In 1978 the family moved to West Berlin where they spent nine months in a refugee camp.^[3] She grew up in Schleswig-Holstein.^[4] Franck studied German Literature and American Studies at the Free University of Berlin and spent some time in the United States, Mexico and Guatemala.^[5] She worked as an editor for Sender Freies Berlin and contributed to various newspapers and magazines.^[6] She lives with her children in Berlin.

Literary works

Franck is the author of five novels and one short story collection, and the editor of a collection of essays. Her three most recent novels, ,^[7] ,^[8] and Rücken an Rücken,^[9] 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,^[10] 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).^[11]

Franck's books have been translated into over 35 languages.^{[12] [13]}

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).^[14]

Awards and honours

• 1995 Open Mike prize of the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin
• 1998 Alfred-Döblin-Stipendium of the Akademie der Künste
• 2000 3sat award of the Ingeborg Bachmann competition
• 2004 Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize
• 2005 Roswitha Prize of the city of Bad Gandersheim
• 2007 German Book Prize
• 2010 short list for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Blind Side of the Heart^[15]
• 2010 short list for the Wingate Literary Prize for the Jewish Quarterly
• 2022 Schiller Memorial Prize^[16]

Memberships

• 2022 ^[17]

Works

• Book: Franck, Julia . Liebediener : Roman . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag . München . 2001 . 3-423-12904-2 . 63518768 . de.
• Book: Franck, Julia . 2 . Bauchlandung : Geschichten zum Anfassen . DuMont . Köln . 2000 . 3-7701-5365-0 . 45304729 . de.
• Book: Franck, Julia . 2 . Lagerfeuer : Roman . Deutscher Taschenbuch . München . 2005 . 3-423-13303-1 . 184954219 . de.
• Book: Franck, Julia . 2 . Mir nichts, dir nichts . DuMont . Köln . 2006 . 978-3-8321-7969-4 . 77562392 . de.
• Book: Franck, Julia . 2 . Die Mittagsfrau : Roman . S. Fischer . Frankfurt am Main . 2007 . 978-3-10-022600-6 . 173070893 . de. ^[18]
• Book: Franck, Julia . 2 . Grenzübergänge : Autoren aus Ost und West erinnern sich . Frankfurt am Main . 2009 . 978-3-10-022604-4 . 317504386 . de.
• Book: Franck, Julia . 2 . Rücken an Rücken Roman . Frankfurt, M . 2011 . 978-3-10-022605-1 . 734095432 . de.
• Book: Franck . Julia . 2 . Blomberg . Katja . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König . Blaues Licht Fragmente einer erhofften Begegnung = Blue light . Köln . 2017 . 978-3-96098-099-5 . 981918644 . de.
• Book: Franck, Julia . 2 . S. Fischer Verlag GmbH . Welten auseinander . Frankfurt am Main . 2021 . 978-3-10-002438-1 . 1248721437 . de.

English translations

• Book: Franck . Julia . Bell . Anthea . Anthea Bell . The blind side of the heart . Harvill Secker . London [England] . 2009 . 978-1-84655-212-0 . 310157526.
  • Book: Franck . Julia . 2 . Bell . Anthea . Anthea Bell . The blindness of the heart . Grove Press . New York . 2009 . 978-0-8021-1967-4 . 587153851.
• Book: Franck . Julia . 2 . Bell . Anthea . Anthea Bell . Back to back . New York . 2013 . 978-0-8021-2167-7 . 862463363.
• Book: Franck . Julia . 2 . Bell . Anthea . Anthea Bell . West . London . 2015 . 978-0-09-955432-5 . 951147491.

Translations

• Book: Solnit . Rebecca . Franck . Julia . Aus der nahen Ferne . Hamburg . 2014 . 978-3-455-50324-1 . 867153725 . de.

Film adaptions

• West (German: link=no|Westen, director: Christian Schwochow), a 2013 German film adaptation of the novel Lagerfeuer.^{[19] [20]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Clary . Elisalex . Auf den Spuren der Mütter . . 16 November 2011 . de . 2 December 2022.
2. Web site: Lieder . Marianna . Julia Franck: Chronik einer Jugend zwischen Ost und West . . 13 October 2021 . de . 2 December 2022.
3. Web site: Julia Franck – PEN Zentrum deutschsprachiger Autoren im Ausland . Exil Pen, PEN Zentrum deutschsprachiger Autoren im Ausland . 11 June 2021 . de . 2 December 2022.
4. Web site: Hajasch . Frank . Julia Franck bei "Der Norden liest" im Literaturhaus Kiel . NDR.de . 28 October 2021 . de . 2 December 2022.
5. Web site: Julia Franck . The Modern Novel . 2 December 2022.
6. Web site: Julia Franck . internationales literaturfestival berlin . 13 May 2022 . de . 2 December 2022.
7. Web site: Kühle Lagerstimmung . . 29 October 2003 . de . 2 December 2022.
8. Web site: Kurz und Bündig – Julia Franck: Die Mittagsfrau . Cicero Online . 20 July 2009 . de . 2 December 2022.
9. Web site: Schwarz . André . Wirres Sammelsurium . Über Julia Francks Roman "Rücken an Rücken" : literaturkritik.de . de . 2 December 2022.
10. News: Lovenberg . Felicitas von . Julia Franck: Rücken an Rücken: Hänsel und Gretel in der DDR . . 1 January 1970 . de . 2 December 2022.
11. Book: Hill, Alexandra. Playing House: Motherhood, Intimacy, and Domestic Spaces in Julia Franck's Fiction. Peter Lang.
12. Web site: Julia Franck – Badenweiler Literaturtage . Badenweiler Literaturtage – Gastgeber Rüdiger Safranski . de . 2 December 2022.
13. Web site: Julia Franck: Die Mittagsfrau und ihre Übersetzer . RP Online . 1 July 2008 . de . 2 December 2022.
14. Web site: On the Track of Family History. 23 July 2013. Jewish Quarterly. Julia Franck. 2 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20171003175243/http://jewishquarterly.org/2010/07/on-the-track-of-family-history/. 3 October 2017. dead.
15. Web site: Shortlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010 revealed – RobAroundBooks. RobAroundBooks. 23 October 2015. en. 3 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173936/http://robaroundbooks.com/2010/04/shortlist-for-the-independent-foreign-fiction-prize-2010-revealed/. dead.
16. Web site: Julia Franck erhält Schiller-Gedächtnis-Preis 2022 . Baden-Württemberg.de . 13 October 2022 . de . 13 October 2022.
17. Web site: Mitglieder . penberlin.de . de . 2 December 2022.
18. Web site: Julia Franck: "Die Mittagsfrau" - 07.10.2018 . DW.COM . de . 2 December 2022.
19. Web site: Kermode . Mark . West review – taut cold-war drama . . 14 June 2015 . 2 December 2022.
20. Web site: Westen . filmportal.de . 2 December 2022.