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Alfred-Döblin-Stipendium
Alfred-Döblin-Stipendium (or the Alfred Döblin Scholarship, in English) is a literary prize of Germany that has been awarded to Berlin writers since 1985. It was named after the writer Alfred Döblin. The recipient of the scholarship is selected by a jury of three, composed of one representative each from the Akademie der Künste, PEN Centre Germany, and the Berlin Senate Department for Science, Research and Culture. Recipients receive a residency for three to twelve months and get paid 1,100 Euros per month during that time. They are required to stay at the Alfred Döblin House in Wewelsfleth. The purpose of the scholarship is to help emerging writers in Berlin to focus on their literary work. Noted scholars * Martin Ahrends * María Cecilia Barbetta * Eva Brunner * Jonas-Philipp Dallmann * Judith Hermann * Massum Faryar * Anja Frisch * Julia Franck * Steffen Jacobs * Martin Jankowski * Marcus Jensen * Reinhard Jirgl * Ingomar von Kieseritzky * Norbert Kron * And ...
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Julia Franck
Julia Franck (born 1970, in East Berlin) is a German writer. Life Julia Franck, a twin, is the daughter of the actress Anna Katharina Franck and of the television producer Jürgen Sehmisch. In 1978 the family moved to West Berlin where they spent nine months in a refugee camp. She grew up in Schleswig-Holstein. Franck studied German Literature and American Studies at the Free University of Berlin and spent some time in the United States, Mexico and Guatemala. She worked as an editor for Sender Freies Berlin and contributed to various newspapers and magazines. She lives with her children in Berlin. Literary works Franck is the author of five novels, one short story collections, and the editor of a collection of essays. Her three most recent novels, ', ', and ''Rücken an Rücken'', as well as the collection ''Grenzübergänge'', engage explicitly with twentieth-century German history. ''Lagerfeuer'' is set in the West Berlin refugee camp Berlin-Marienfelde in the 1970s and fol ...
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Reinhard Jirgl
Reinhard Jirgl (born 16 January 1953 in East-Berlin) is a German writer. Biography Jirgl was born in Berlin-Friedrichshain. He became a skilled worker for electromechanics. Then he completed a degree in electronics at Humboldt University, Berlin. He made first attempts at prose during his studies in the early 1970s. From 1975 he worked as an engineer at the Academy of Sciences. He gave up his profession in 1978 to devote more time to writing. He worked as a lighting and service technician at the Volksbühne in Berlin. After submitting his first novel ''Mutter Vater Roman'' to a Berlin publishing house in 1985, he was accused of a "non-Marxist conception of history". The publication of the novel was refused. Until 1989, none of his manuscripts were published. Since 2009 he has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature. and he is member of the PEN Centre Germany. In 2010 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize by the German Academy for Language and Literature ...
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Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of , with a population of almost 84 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th ce ...
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André Kubiczek
André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew, and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries. It is a variation of the Greek name ''Andreas'', a short form of any of various compound names derived from ''andr-'' 'man, warrior'. The name is popular in Norway and Sweden.Namesearch – Statistiska centralbyrån


Cognate names

Cognate names are: * : Andrei,
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Karsten Krampitz
Karsten or Carsten is a both a given name and a surname. It is believed to be either derived from a Low German form of Christian, or "man from karst". Notable persons with the name include: Given name ;Carsten: * Carsten Charles Sabathia (born 1980), Former baseball player most famous for being a New York Yankee * Carsten Niebuhr (1733–1815), German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer in the service of Denmark * Carsten Pohl (born 1965), German basketball coach ;Karsten: * Karsten Alnæs (born 1938), Norwegian author, historian, and journalist * Karsten Andersen (1920–1997), Norwegian conductor * Big Daddy Karsten (born 1989), 2017 Eurovision Jury List; Norwegian Pre-select for Eurovision (Melodi Grand Prix 2021) * Karsten Buer (1913–1993), Norwegian harness coach * Karsten Fonstad (1900–1970), Norwegian politician * Karsten Forsterling (born 1980), Australian rower * Karsten Isachsen (1944–2016), Norwegian Lutheran priest, essayist and public speaker * Karsten J ...
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Manja Präkels
Manja may refer to: Places * Manja, India, a town in India * Manja, Jordan, a town in Jordan * Manja, Madagascar, a town in Madagascar * Manja District, a district in Madagascar People * Manja Kowalski (born 1976), German rower * Manja Smits (harpist), Dutch harpist and 1993 winner of the Nederlandse Muziekprijs * Manja Smits (politician) (born 1985), Dutch politician Other uses * Manja (kite), the glass powder coated kite flying and fighting string * ''Manja'' (magazine), a Singaporean magazine * ''Manja'' (film), a 2014 film * ''Manja'' (novel), a 1938 novel by Anna Gmeyner See also * Mandja (other) Mandja may refer to: * Mandja language * Mandja people See also * Manja (other) {{disambig ... * Manjaa, a woven bed {{disambig, geo ...
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Thorsten Becker (writer)
Thorsten Becker (born 13 May 1980) is a German footballer, who in 1992 moved from Fortuna Schlangen to SC Paderborn Sport-Club Paderborn 07 e.V., commonly known as simply SC Paderborn 07 () or SC Paderborn, is a German association football club based in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club has enjoyed its greatest successes since the turn of the mille ... and has played in the club's first-team squad from 2001 to 2009. He helped Paderborn gain promotion to the second level of the Bundesliga in the 2004–05 season. He suffered a knee injury in late 2005 which resulted in a long-term absence from the club. After he retired from playing football, Becker became a coach and joined Paderborn's under-19 team as co-manager in June 2016. References 1980 births Living people German men's footballers SC Paderborn 07 players 2. Bundesliga players Men's association football defenders {{Germany-footy-defender-1980s-stub ...
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Ron Winkler
Ron is a shortening of the name Ronald. Ron or RON may also refer to: Arts and media *Big Ron (EastEnders), Big Ron (''EastEnders''), a TV character *Ron (King of Fighters), Ron (''King of Fighters''), a video game character *Ron Douglas, the protagonist in ''Lucky Stiff (film), Lucky Stiff'' played by Joe Alasky *Ron Weasley, a character in ''Harry Potter.'' Language * Ron language, spoken in Plat State, Nigeria * Romanian language (ISO 639-3 code ron) People Mononym *Ron (singer), Rosalino Cellamare (born 1953), Italian singer Given name *Ron (given name) Surname *Dana Ron (born 1964), Israeli computer scientist and professor *Elaine Ron (1943-2010), American epidemiologist *Emri Ron (born 1936), Israeli politician *Ivo Ron (born 1967), Ecuadorian football player *Jason De Ron (born 1973), Australian musician *José Ron (born 1981), Mexican actor *Liat Ron, actress, dancer and dance instructor * *Lior Ron (born 1982), Israeli-American film and trailer composer and musicia ...
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Thomas Weiss (writer)
Thomas Weiss may refer to: * Thomas G. Weiss Thomas G. Weiss (born 1946) is a distinguished international diplomat and scholar of international relations and global governance with special expertise in the politics of the United Nations, where he himself served in various high-ranking roles. ... (born 1946), scholar of international relations * Thomas J. Weiss (born 1942), professor of economics {{hndis, Weiss, Thomas ...
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Peter Wawerzinek
Peter Wawerzinek (born 28 September 1954 as Peter Runkel) is a German artist and writer."I'll find you/Bad love"
by Peter Wawerzinek, trans. by Stefan Tobler.
Peter Wawerzinek was born in 1954 in , in . His parents escaped from East Germany shortly after his birth leaving him behind. He grew up in the north of East Germany near the coast of the Baltic Sea and was adopted after some years in children's homes. He moved to
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Michael Wildenhain
Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic religions * Michael (bishop elect), English 13th-century Bishop of Hereford elect * Michael (Khoroshy) (1885–1977), cleric of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada * Michael Donnellan (1915–1985), Irish-born London fashion designer, often referred to simply as "Michael" * Michael (footballer, born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1993), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born February 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born March 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer Rulers =Byzantine emperors= *Michael I Rangabe (d. 844), married the daughter of Emperor Nikephoros I *Mich ...
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David Wagner (writer)
David Wagner may refer to: * David L. Wagner (born 1956), American entomologist * David Wagner, lead singer of American rock group Crow * David Wagner (soccer) (born 1971), German-American soccer player and coach * David Wagner (tennis) (born 1974), American wheelchair tennis player * David A. Wagner (born 1974), American computer scientist * David Wagner (judge) (1826–1902), Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri * David Wagner (mathematics education) David Wagner (born 1965) is a Canadian mathematics educator and full professor at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. He is an adjunct professor (professor II) at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Service and functions ...
(born 1965), Canadian mathematics education researcher {{hndis, Wagner, David ...
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