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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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |