Hauke Hückstädt, born in 1969 in Schwedt, Brandenburg, and now based in Frankfurt am Main, has been director of Frankfurt’s Literaturhaus (“House of Literature”) since 2010. Before that, he worked for a number of years at Hanover’s Literarischer Salon and Göttingen’s Literarisches Zentrum. He is also active as an editor, critic, jury member and lecturer, and advises authors on PR matters for selected publishers. A member of the German Book Prize jury in 2019, Hückstädt is also chairman of the board and spokesman for the network of Literaturhäuser in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
