Hannelore Hippe

Hannelore Hippe (* 1951 in Frankfurt am Main), also Hannelore Hippe-Davies (married name) and Hannah O'Brien and Hanne H. Kvandal (pseudonym), is a German author and radio journalist. Hannelore Hippe studied German and drama and then lived for a long time in Great Britain and Ireland. Since 1985 she has worked as a freelance author and journalist for all ARD radio stations and has produced over one hundred and fifty radio features and numerous other contributions to date (2009). She has also written several novels and short stories as well as numerous radio plays, radio documentaries and audio books, some of which she directed. Her novel manuscript Eiszeiten (Ice Times), unpublished at the time, formed the basis for the 2012 German-Norwegian feature film entitled Zwei Leben (Two Lives), directed by Georg Maas and starring Juliane Köhler, Liv Ullmann, and Ken Duken, among others. Among other things, Hippe's novel script deals with the mysterious Norwegian criminal case of the so-called Isdal woman and the fate of children of the occupying forces and the Wehrmacht in Norway. The film premiered in Norway in October 2012 and was released in Germany in September 2013. The film was submitted as a German entry for the Oscars, but was not considered in the nominations for the Best Foreign Language Film category. After several revisions of her manuscript, the novel was published in 2018 under the title Die verlorenen Töchter by dtv Verlagsgesellschaft. Since 2015, she has written under the pseudonym Hannah O'Brien, under which she has since published several crime novels with dtv. In October 2021, she began publishing another crime novel series under the pseudonym Hanne H. Kvandal, set in Spitsbergen. Hannelore Hippe now lives in Cologne and on the Moselle.