Department of German

Ms. Hoppe was born 1960 in Hameln, the town of the Pied Piper.

She studied literature, rhetoric, and religion in Tübingen, received her M.A. from the University of Oregon, and continued her studies at the Free University in Berlin. At the same time she published a variety of texts in anthologies, newspapers, and journals.

She now lives in Berlin. She 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 also was elected as a member of the Deutsche Aakademie für Sprache und Dichtung. Her critically highly acclaimed works include Picknick der Friseure, Pigafetta, Paradiese Übersee, Verbrecher und Versager, and most recently Johanna.

Not only a world traveler and accomplished linguist, Ms. Hoppe has also held professorships in Wiesbaden, Innsbruck and will be the first to inaugurate a new Professorship in Augsburg coming spring. She also has published lovely children's books together with artist friends.