Unapologetically Jewish
Barbara Honigmann on literature, life and Jewish identity
What does it mean to be Jewish? And what does it mean in literature? Barbara Honigmann has written about these issues her ...
Barbara Honigmann
Barbara Honigmann was born in 1949 in East Berlin, where her parents had returned from exile. At present, she lives in Strasbourg in France. She was a dramatist and theatre director, and has been a full-time writer and artist since 1975.In 1984 she emigrated with her family to Strasbourg, where she still lives today. Her work has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Kleist Prize in 2000. Previously published by Hanser: Damals, dann und danach (1999), Alles, alles Liebe! (2000), Ein Kapitel aus meinem Leben (2004), Das Gesicht wiederfinden (2007), Das überirdische Licht. Rückkehr nach New York (2008),Chronik meiner Straße (2015) and Georg (a novel, 2019).
Georg
When Barbara Honigmann tells the story of her father’s life – a German and an emigrant, a Jew and a communist – her unparalleled voice turns a personal family saga into a story of the ...
moreMy Street
Barbara Honigmann specialises in writing about life’s great dramas and losses. Here she presents a memoir devoted to a single street – the inconspicuous French street where she has lived for ...
morePictures of A.
In the streets of Berlin, a man is riding a bicycle. A woman is perched on the handlebars. An officer of the Volkspolizei spots them: "Get off that bike - right now!" It is the beginning of a ...
moreSupernatural Light
New York is one of the most frequently written-about cities in the world. Here it is seen in an entirely fresh, intrinsically personal light, as Barbara Honigmann shows how a hitherto unfamiliar ...
moreRegaining One's Face
Barbara Honigmann has won critical and public acclaim with books that blend autobiography and literature into a homogeneous – and highly original – whole. This latest collection of ...
moreA Chapter of my Life
By turns dispassionate, poetic, and witty, Barbara Honigmann relates the incredible story of her own mother, who was a spy and an emigrant, a Jewess and a Communist, in times of war and ...
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