Felicitas Hoppe was born in Hameln, Germany in 1960 and lives in Berlin as a writer. She studied literature, rhetoric and religious studies in Tübingen, Oregon and the Free University of Berlin. She has worked in theater as a dramatic advisor and as a journalist. She was a guest professor at Dartmouth College in 2006.

Photo: © Sven Paustian

Awards:

• 1994 Alfred Döblin Stipend
• 1996 Aspekte Literature Prize
• 1996 Ernst Willner Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Contest in Klagenfurt, Austria
• 1997 Rauriser Literature Prize
• 2004 Nicolas Born Prize of the State of Lower Saxony
• 2004 Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize
• 2005 Brüder Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau
• 2007 Literature Prize of the City of Bremen
• 2007 Roswitha Prize