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Joachim Frank
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America (the)
Genres: Literary Fiction, Short/Flash Fiction Collection, Memoir
Skills: Performance/Spoken Word, Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Speaking Engagement/Lecture
Joachim Frank, a German-born scientist and writer, since 1975 in New York City. He took fiction writing classes at the Skidmore Summer workshops of the New York Writers Institute with William Kennedy, Steven Millhauser, Eugene Garber, and Jayne Ann Phillips. He published short stories and poems in a number of magazines including Hamilton Stone Review, Offcourse, Wasifiri and Door is a Jar.
His novel AAN ZEE was published in 2019 by Southern University Press. Three additional novels are still unpublished: Ierapetra or my Sister\'s Keeper, NARCIS, and The Observatory. His German translations of selected poems by Michael Heller have appeared in Signaturen Magazin, Germany.
Joachim Frank's books
AAN ZEE
Aan Zee is about the tragic-comic search of a man for his identity between two cultures. It is a modern Bildungsroman, in the sense that the hero searches for a purpose and is transformed in the process. Hubert Belovski, a German-born scientist now living in the States, is confronted with his past in the shape of a former girlfriend, as he goes to Scheveningen in the Netherlands, following an invitation to speak at a Conference on Fluid Dynamics. Aan Zee is the name of his hotel that has seen better days. After a brief rekindling of passion, he is left feeling more alone that before. On his way to his aunt in Austria he is struck by a viral flu that leaves him immobilized and in her care for months, enough time to reflect on his life. He finally recovers and, in Rip van Winkle fashion, returns into a world that has moved on.