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Droste-Preis
Droste-Preis is a literary prize awarded in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The city of Meersburg awards the Droste Prize in memory of the writer Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, who spent the last years of her life in Meersburg. It is awarded every three years. The award is endowed with €6,000 (First Prize (): €4,000). The award is only given to women. Winners *1957 Erika Burkart *1960 Nelly Sachs *1963 Christine Busta *1967 Rose Ausländer *1971 Hilde Domin *1975 Eva Zeller *1979 Gertrud Leutenegger *1982 Dorothee Sölle, Maria Menz *1985 Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer *1988 Elisabeth Plessen *1991 Jenny Aloni *1994 Eveline Hasler *1997 Friederike Mayröcker *2000 Helen Meier *2003 Kathrin Schmidt, First prize: Julia Schoch *2006 Ulrike Draesner, First prize: Marion Poschmann *2009 Marlene Streeruwitz, First prize: Silke Scheuermann *2012 Helga M. Novak, First prize: Ulrike Almut Sandig *2015 Judith Schalansky Judith Schalansky (born 20 September 1980) is a German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Flor
Olga Flor (born 1968) is an Austrian writer. Life Flor was born in Vienna. She grew up in Vienna, Cologne and Graz and completed her ''Matura'' at Akademisches Gymnasium Graz. Flor studied physics and history at the University of Graz. From 1997 to 1999, Flor stayed in Modena. The monologue ''Fleischgerichte'' premiered in 2004 at the Graz theater. She has worked for multimedia enterprises, written several books and received literary awards like the Anton Wildgans Prize in 2013. She's a member of the Grazer Autorenversammlung. Awards * 2013 Anton Wildgans Prize * 2018 Droste Prize * 2019 Franz Nabl Prize The Franz Nabl Prize is an biennial Austrian literature award. The prize was first awarded in 1975 by the city of Graz. The prize money is €14,500 (since 2019: €15,000). It is awarded as part of a jury meeting in cooperation with the at the ..., Graz Works * * * * * * * * References Further readiung * External links * * 1968 births Living pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Schalansky
Judith Schalansky (born 20 September 1980) is a German writer, book designer and publisher. Work Her book '' Atlas of Remote Islands'' won first prize in the Stiftung Buchkunst's The Most Beautiful German Books competition (German: Die schönsten deutschen Bücher) in 2009. In 2012, she won the same prize for ''The Giraffe’s Neck''. Schalansky has degrees in both art history and communication design. Since 2013, she has been the general editor of the ''Naturkunden'' series, published by Matthes & Seitz. Personal life Schalansky was born in Greifswald. She lives in Berlin with her partner, actor Bettina Hoppe. The asteroid 95247 Schalansky was named after her in 2011. Bibliography * * * * * English translations * * * * Awards and honors * 2007: Silbermedaille des Art Directors Club Deutschland for ''Fraktur mon Amour'' * 2007: Type Directors Club's Award for Typographic Excellence for ''Fraktur mon Amour'' * 2009: First Prize, Stiftung Buchkunst's "The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrike Draesner
Ulrike Draesner (born 1962 in Munich) is a German author. She was awarded the 2016 Nicolas Born Prize. Life and work The daughter of an architect, Draesner grew up in Munich, Germany. She received a Bavarian State scholarship for the best performing student at Gymnasium (Sixth Form) from the . She read Law, English and German literature as well as Philosophy in Munich, Salamanca, and Oxford. She worked as a lecturer Institute for German Philology from 1989 to 1993. In 1992, she received her doctorate for a dissertation on the Middle High German romance Parzival. In 1993, Draesner quit her academic career in order to work as a full-time author. She has lived in Berlin since 1994, writing both poetry and prose. Her novel ''Vorliebe'' (2010) is a romance novel. In 2014, her groundbreaking novel ''Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt'' was published and a celebrated success. Draesner frequently collaborates in cross-media projects with other artists and merges literature with sculpting, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friederike Mayröcker
Friederike Mayröcker (20 December 1924 – 4 June 2021) was an Austrian writer of poetry and prose, audio plays, children's books and dramatic texts. She experimented with language, and was regarded as an avantgarde poet, and as one of the leading authors in German. Her work, inspired by art, music, literature and everyday life, appeared as "novel and also dense text formations, often described as 'magical'." According to ''The New York Times'', her work was "formally inventive, much of it exploiting the imaginative potential of language to capture the minutiae of daily life, the natural world, love and grief". Life Mayröcker was born in Vienna, the daughter of a teacher and a milliner. Until age 11, she spent the summers regularly in the village Deinzendorf. In World War II, she was drafted as an air force aide, working as a secretary. From 1946 to 1969 Mayröcker was an English teacher at several public schools in Vienna. She started writing poetry at age 15. In 1946, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlene Streeruwitz
Marlene Streeruwitz (born 28 June 1950) is an Austrian playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. Biography Born in Baden bei Wien in 1950, Streeruwitz was raised in a well-to-do family. Her father was a politician and later became mayor. She studied law and Slavic languages at Vienna University but interrupted her studies to get married and raise a family. Her divorce triggered her interest in writing, although she did not think of publishing anything for the next 14 years. She gained fame first as the author of the radio play ''Kaiserklamm.Und.Kirchenwirt'' (1989) and even more so when ''Waikiki-Beach'' and ''Sloane Square'' proved extremely successful when staged in Cologne. Streeruwitz has also become known as a poet, reading her own works such as ''Sein. Und Schein. Und Erscheinen'' (1997) and ''Können. Mögen. Dürfen. Sollen. Wollen. Müssen. Lassen'' (1998) in Tübingen and Frankfurt. Awards Streeruwitz has received many awards for her work including the Hermann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silke Scheuermann
Silke Scheuermann (born 15 June 1973, in Karlsruhe) is a German poet and novelist. She was educated in Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Paris. She is best known for her debut novel ''Die Stunde zwischen Hund und Wolf'' (The Hour Between Dog and Wolf), which has been translated into ten languages including English. She has won numerous German and European literary prizes and fellowships, including the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Preis, the Leonce-und-Lena-Preis, the Hölty Prize, the Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis, and a Villa Massimo fellowship. Works * * * * * * * * * * English translations * Awards * 2001 Leonce-und-Lena-Preis, Darmstadt * 2003 Literaturstipendium Lana * 2003 Stipendium Künstlerdorf Schöppingen * 2004 Stadtschreiberin in Beirut * 2004 Literaturstipendium Villa Aurora, Los Angeles * 2004 Stipendium der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg * 2005 Dresdner Stadtschreiberin * 2005 Förderpreis zum Hermann-Hesse-Preis * 2006 Studienaufenthalt in der Casa Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrud Leutenegger
Gertrud Leutenegger (born 1948) is a German-speaking Swiss poet, novelist, playwright and theatre director.Böttcher, Kurt, et al., eds., ''Lexikon deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller 20. Jahrhundert.'' Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1993, p. 476. Life Gertrud Leutenegger was born and grew up in Schwyz, Switzerland, where her father was a book editor. She later lived in both the Italian-speaking and French-speaking parts of Switzerland. After completing her secondary education she initially undertook teacher training and became a Kindergarten teacher. She also worked in a psychiatric clinic for a time and was as a custodian at the Nietzsche House in Sils Maria. Leutenegger's interest in theatre led to drama studies at the Zürich University of the Arts from 1976 to 1979 where she studied director's theatre (Regietheater). She worked as assistant producer to Jürgen Flimm, a noted exponent of Regietheater, at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, in 1978. In the same year, she wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrike Almut Sandig
Ulrike Almut Sandig (born 1979) is a German writer. She was born in Großenhain in the former GDR, and has lived in Riesa, Leipzig and Berlin. She studied religion and indology at university, and then studied at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig. She started her writing career by distributing her poems in public places in Leipzig. She has published three volumes of poetry: ''Zunder'' (2005/2009), ''Streumen'' (2007), and ''Dickicht'' (2011). Her first book of short stories titled ''Flamingos'' came out in 2010. She has also written for the radio, and published audiobooks. She has received numerous prizes, among them the Leonce-und-Lena Prize (2009) and the Droste-Preis for Emerging Talent () (2012). She has also done residencies in Helsinki and Sydney. Her work has been translated into various languages, and an English-language selection of her work, translated by Karen Leeder, was runner-up in the Schlegel-Tieck Prize. Most recently she was awarded the in 2018, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Meier
Helen Meier (17 April 1929 – 13 February 2021) was a Swiss writer. Biography Meier attended a in Rorschach and subsequently became a primary schoolteacher. After working in England, France, and Italy, she attended the University of Fribourg, subsequently working for the Swiss Red Cross and as a special education teacher in Heiden. She was discovered at the Festival of German-Language Literature, where she received a prize for her story, ''Lichtempfindlich''. Helen Meier died in Trogen on 13 February 2021 at the age of 91. Awards * (1984) *Rauris Literature Prize (1985) *Prize of the (1985) *Prize of the Schweizerische Schillerstiftung (2000) *Contribution to Pro Helvetia (2000) *Droste-Preis Droste-Preis is a literary prize awarded in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The city of Meersburg awards the Droste Prize in memory of the writer Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, who spent the last years of her life in Meersburg. It is awarded every thr ... (2000) *Kulturpreis des Kantons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresa Präauer
Teresa Präauer (born 28 February 1979 in Linz, Oberösterreich) is an Austrian writer and visual artist. Life Teresa Präauer was born in Linz and grew up in Graz and St. Johann im Pongau District. From 1997 to 2003 she studied German studies at the University of Salzburg and the Humboldt University of Berlin as well as painting at the Mozarteum Salzburg. From 2003 she lived and worked in Vienna, where she studied as a postgraduate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 2004 to 2005. For her first novel titled, ''For the Ruler from Overseas'', Präauer was awarded the aspects literature prize of ZDF for the best German-language prose debut. In 2015 she received the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis of the city of Bad Homburg for Johnny and Jean and was nominated for the prize of the Leipzig Book Fair. Teresa Präauer was nominated for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize at the Days of German Literature in 2015. In the summer semester of 2016, Präauer held the Samuel Fischer Guest Profes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelly Sachs
Nelly Sachs (; 10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970) was a German-Swedish poet and playwright. Her experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews. Her best-known play is ' (1950); other works include the poems "" (1962), "" (1970), and the collections of poetry ' (1947), ' (1959), ' (1961), and ' (1971). She was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature. Life and career Leonie Sachs was born in Berlin-Schöneberg, Germany, in 1891 to a Jewish family. Her parents were the wealthy natural rubber and gutta-percha manufacturers Georg William Sachs (1858–1930) and his wife Margarete, née Karger (1871–1950). She was educated at home because of frail health. She showed early signs of talent as a dancer, but her protective parents did not encourage her to pursue a profession. She grew up as a very sheltered, introverted young woman and never married. She pursued an exten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathrin Schmidt
Kathrin Schmidt (born 12 March 1958 in Gotha, Bezirk Erfurt), is a German writer. She is known both for her poetry and prose. Life and work Kathrin Schmidt grew up in Gotha and from 1964 in Waltershausen. After graduating from high school, she studied psychology at the University of Jena from 1976 to 1981. After completing her studies (diploma), she worked as a research assistant at the University of Leipzig from 1981 to 1982, and then as a child psychologist at the Rüdersdorf District Hospital and at the Berlin-Marzahn Child and Youth Health Protection Center. In 1986/1987, she completed special studies at the Johannes R. Becher Institute of Literature in Leipzig. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she worked at the Round Table in East Berlin. In 1990/1991 she was editor of the feminist women's magazine Ypsilon and worked as a research assistant at the Berlin Institute for Comparative Social Research until 1993. She has been a freelance writer since 1994. She is a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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