Writer Felicitas Hoppe Will Join Department in Fall

Felicitas Hoppe, accomplished Berlin-based writer of fiction and world traveler, will come to Georgetown in the fall semester. Her critically acclaimed works include Picknick der Friseure (1996), Pigafetta (1999), Paradiese Übersee (2003), Verbrecher und Versager (2004), Johanna (2006).

Working with friends who are artists and book illustrators, she also has published lovely children's books (Iwein Löwenritter, 2008). Felicitas Hoppe has received a number of prestigious literary prizes, including the Brothers Grimm Prize (2005), and most recently the Bremer Literaturpreis and the Roswitha Prize of the city of Gandersheim (both 2007).

In 2007, she was also elected to be member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. Felicitas Hoppe has held guest professorships in Wiesbaden, Innsbruck, and Dartmouth College and this spring, she will inaugurate a guest lecture series in Augsburg with presentations on the role of treasures in history, fiction, and film.

In the German Department at Georgetown, Felicitas Hoppe will offer an upper level course on the intriguing topic of “Räuber, Ritter, Abenteurer”.