Felicitas Hoppe, accomplished Berlin-based writer of fiction and world traveler, has been a Writer-in-Residence in the Department of German in the fall of 2008 and the spring of 2010. Her critically acclaimed works include Picknick der Friseure (short stories, 1996), Pigafetta (after having circumnavigated the world, 1999), Paradiese, Übersee (2003), Verbrecher und Versager (2004), Johanna (2006), Iwein Löwenritter (2008), Sieben Schätze (Essays, 2009), Der beste Platz der Welt (2009), and Hoppe (autobiographical novel, 2012).
Felicitas Hoppe has received a number of prestigious prizes including the Heimito von Doderer Preis and the Nicolas Born Preis (both in 2004), the Brothers Grimm Preis (2005), the Bremer Literaturpreis and the Roswitha von Gandersheim Preis (both 2007). In 2007, she was elected to be member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. In 2012, she was awarded the Georg-Büchner-Preis, the most prestigious German literary prize.
In addition to being a Writer-in-Residence at Georgetown, Felicitas Hoppe has held guest professorships in Wiesbaden, Innsbruck, Augsburg and Göttingen and at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and has been a Writer-in-Residence at New York University.