{{Short description|German author}} {{About|German author Katharina Hacker|the German figure skater with a similar name|Katharina Häcker}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Katharina Hacker | image = Katharina Hacker.jpg | caption = Hacker in 2005 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|01|11|df=y}} | birth_place = Frankfurt am Main, West Germany | occupation = Novelist | nationality = | language = German | notableworks = Die Habenichtse | awards = {{awd|German Book Prize|2006}} | website = {{URL|https://www.katharinahacker.de}} }} '''Katharina Hacker''' (born 11 January 1967) is a German author best known for her award-winning novel ''Die Habenichtse'' (''The Have-Nots''). Hacker studied philosophy, history and Jewish studies at the University of Freiburg and the University of Jerusalem. Her studies in Israel have been seen as an attempt to compensate for the strong anti-Semitic feelings of her Silesian grandmother. She did not finish her studies with an academic degree. Since 1996, she has been living as a freelance writer in Berlin.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.suhrkamp.de/autoren/rights_autor.cfm?id=1693 |title=Author Katharina Hacker – Suhrkamp Insel |accessdate=30 July 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070818165038/http://suhrkamp.de/autoren/rights_autor.cfm?id=1693 |archivedate=18 August 2007 }}</ref> In 2006, she was the second writer to be awarded the German Book Prize for ''Die Habenichtse''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deutscher-buchpreis.de/de/100014?valid=true&meldungs_id=120442|title=Deutscher Buchpreis|website=www.deutscher-buchpreis.de|access-date=30 July 2008|archive-date=18 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718225623/http://www.deutscher-buchpreis.de/de/100014?valid=true&meldungs_id=120442|url-status=dead}}</ref> In this and other works, Hacker examines the consequences of globalization and neoliberalism on the working life, social relations, and family interactions of her German protagonists.<ref>{{Cite book|title=German Women's Writing in the Twenty-First Century|last=Druxes|first=Helga|publisher=Camden House|year=2015|isbn=978-1-64014-025-7|editor-last=Baer|editor-first=Hester|location=Rochester|pages=156|chapter=The Indictment of Neoliberalism and Communism in the Novels of Katharina Hacker, Nikola Richter, Judith Schalansky, and Julia Schoch|editor-last2=Merley Hill|editor-first2=Alexandra}}</ref>
==Works== * {{cite book | last=Hacker | first=Katharina | title=Tel Aviv eine Stadterzählung | publication-place=Frankfurt, M | date=2013 | isbn=978-3-596-18967-0 | oclc=855868938 | language=de}} * {{cite book | last=Hacker | first=Katharina |author-mask=2 | title=Morpheus oder Der Schnabelschuh Erzählungen | publication-place=Frankfurt, M | date=2013 | isbn=978-3-596-18968-7 | oclc=855868940 | language=de}} ** {{cite book | last=Hacker | first=Katharina |author-mask=2 | title=Morpheus | publisher=Toby Press | publication-place=[New Milford, CT] | date=2003 | isbn=1-902881-66-4 | oclc=52517369 }} * {{cite book | last=Hacker | first=Katharina |author-mask=2 | title=Der Bademeister Roman | publication-place=Frankfurt, M | date=2012 | isbn=978-3-596-18969-4 | oclc=879119610 | language=de}} ** {{cite book | last=Hacker | first=Katharina |author-mask=2 | last2=Atkins | first2=Helen | title=The lifeguard | publisher=Toby Press | publication-place=[London] | date=2002 | isbn=1-902881-45-1 | oclc=49207830}} * {{cite book | last=Hacker | first=Katharina |author-mask=2 | title=Eine Art Liebe Roman | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=2012 | isbn=978-3-10-400936-0 | oclc=858035958 | language=de}} * {{cite book | last=Hacker | first=Katharina |author-mask=2 | title=Die Habenichtse Roman | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=2012 | isbn=978-3-10-400939-1 | oclc=858031404 | language=de}} ** {{cite book | last=Hacker | first=Katharina |author-mask=2 | last2=Atkins | first2=Helen | title=The have-nots | publication-place=New York | date=2008 | isbn=978-1-933372-41-9 | oclc=154704734}} * {{cite book | last=Hacker | first=Katharina |author-mask=2 | title=Überlandleitung : Prosagedichte | publisher=Suhrkamp | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=2007 | isbn=978-3-518-41909-0 | oclc=173071336 | language=de}} * {{cite book | last=Hacker | first=Katharina |author-mask=2 | title=Alix, Anton und die anderen : Roman | publisher=Suhrkamp | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=2009 | isbn=978-3-518-42127-7 | oclc=469634713 | language=de}} * {{cite book | last=Hacker | first=Katharina |author-mask=2 | title=Die Erdbeeren von Antons Mutter | publication-place=Frankfurt, M | date=2010 | isbn=978-3-10-030064-5 | oclc=631717948 | language=de}} * {{cite book | last=Hacker | first=Katharina |author-mask=2 | title=Eine Dorfgeschichte | publisher=S. Fischer | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=2011 | isbn=978-3-10-030066-9 | oclc=760917435 | language=de}} * {{cite book | last=Hacker | first=Katharina |author-mask=2 | publisher=S. Fischer Verlag GmbH | title=Skip Roman | publication-place=Frankfurt, M | date=2015 | isbn=978-3-10-030065-2 | oclc=908642716}}
==Translations== * {{cite book | last=Eni | first=Le'ah | title=Eine muss da sein : Roman | publisher=Suhrkamp | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=1997 | isbn=3-518-40924-7 | oclc=40122409 | language=de}} * {{cite book | last=Avni-Leṿi | first=Yosi | title=Der Garten der toten Bäume Roman in fünfzehn Episoden | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=2002 | isbn=978-3-518-39879-1 | oclc=76705446 | language=de}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hacker, Katharina}} Category:1967 births Category:Living people Category:Writers from Frankfurt Category:21st-century German novelists Category:German Book Prize winners Category:21st-century German women novelists