Bertina Henrichs (born 1966,
Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...
) is a German writer who writes in French and lives in Paris.
Life
Bertina Henrichs studied literature and film techniques in Berlin and France. With a thesis on writers who have adopted a foreign language in exile, she obtained her PhD in 1997 at
Paris Diderot University
Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (french: Université Paris Diderot), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 197 ...
.
[''L’(im)possible abandon. Le changement de langue chez les écrivains exilés.'' Université Paris Diderot 1997.] She lived in Paris from then on and wrote several screenplays, before making her debut as a writer in 2005 with the novel ''La Joueuse d'échecs''. The story about a maid who discovered her passion for
chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...
became a bestseller and appeared shortly after in 2007 under the title '' Die Schachspielerin'' selling something more than 50,000 copies. The
eponymous film with
Sandrine Bonnaire
Sandrine Bonnaire (; born 31 May 1967) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter who has appeared in more than 40 films. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for '' À Nos Amours'' (1983), the César Award for Best Actre ...
and
Kevin Kline
Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an American actor. He is the recipient of an Academy Award and three Tony Awards. In addition, he has received nominations for two British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and five ...
in the main roles was released in 2009 in a German-French co-production under the direction of .
Bertina Henrichs has been a recipient of the
Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE
The Cezam Prix Litteraire Inter CE is a literary prize which was established in France in 1997. Its judging panel of more than 3600 readers who meet in groups to discuss, critique and individually rate the books, makes it one of the largest adjud ...
in 2003 and of the
Corine Literature Prize
The Corine – International Book Prize, as it is officially called, is a German literature prize created by the
Bavarian chapter of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, first awarded in 2001. It is awarded to German and international "aut ...
in 2006.
Works
*2005: ''La Joueuse d’échecs''
*2008: ''That's all right mama''
*2010: ''Le Narcisse''
*2011: ''Le jardin''
*2013: ''Das Glück der blauen Stunde.'' Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2013, .
References
External links
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Verlagsinfos zu Autorin und Werkbei
Hoffmann und Campe
Hoffmann is a German surname.
People A
* Albert Hoffmann (1846–1924), German horticulturist
* Alexander Hoffmann (born 1975), German politician
*Arthur Hoffmann (politician) (1857–1927), Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Coun ...
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Schach den tradierten Rollenmustern', Interview with Bertina Henrichs on chessbase.de
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German women writers
Writers from Frankfurt
1966 births
Living people