Ernst-Robert-Curtius-Preis
Ernst-Robert-Curtius-Preis was a German literary prize, named after the literary scholar Ernst Robert Curtius. It was founded in 1984, and recognizes outstanding essay writers. The prize was awarded until 2015 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn and endowed with €8,000 (Förderpreis: €4,000). Recipients FP: Förderpreis * 1984: Golo Mann * 1985: Kurt Sontheimer * 1986: Hilde Spiel, FP: Ulrich Holbein and Thomas Lautwein * 1987: Wolf Jobst Siedler, FP: Uwe Schmitt (journalist), Uwe Schmitt * 1988: François Bondy, FP: Walter van Rossum * 1989: Friedrich Dürrenmatt, FP: Jens Jessen (journalist), Jens Jessen * 1990: Hermann Lübbe, FP: Verena Lenzen * 1991: Günter Kunert, FP: Norbert Hinterberger * 1992: Werner Ross, FP: Jörg Lau * 1993: Peter Sloterdijk, FP: Joachim Vogel * 1994: Karl Dietrich Bracher, FP: Thomas Hettche * 1995: Hubert Markl, FP: Michael Maar * 1996: Odo Marquard, FP: Helmut Böttiger * 1997: Hans Magnus Enzensberger, FP: Doron Rabinovic ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Hans Magnus Enzensberger (11 November 1929 – 24 November 2022) was a German author, poet, translator, and editor. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Andreas Thalmayr, Elisabeth Ambras, Linda Quilt and Giorgio Pellizzi. Enzensberger was regarded as one of the literary founding figures of the Federal Republic of Germany and wrote more than 70 books, with works translated into 40 languages. He was one of the leading authors in Group 47, and influenced the 1968 West German student movement. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize and the Pour le Mérite, among many others. Life and career Enzensberger was born in 1929 in Kaufbeuren, a small town in Bavaria, as the eldest of four boys. His father, Andreas Enzensberger, worked as a telecommunications technician, and his mother, Leonore (Ledermann) Enzensberger a kindergarten teacher. Enzensberger was part of the last generation of intellectuals whose writing was shaped by first-hand experience of Nazi Germany. The Enzensberger fami ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Günter Kunert
Günter Kunert (; 6 March 1929 – 21 September 2019) was a German writer. Based in East Berlin, he published poetry from 1947, supported by Bertold Brecht. After he had signed a petition against the deprivation of the citizenship of Wolf Biermann in 1976, he lost his SED membership, and moved to the West two years later. He is regarded as a versatile German writer who wrote short stories, essays, autobiographical works, film scripts and novels. He received international honorary doctorates and awards. Life Kunert was born in Berlin. After attending a Volksschule, it was not possible for Kunert—due to the National Socialist race laws—to continue his high school education because his mother was Jewish. After World War II, Kunert studied graphics at East Berlin's Academy of Applied Arts from 1946–49, but then abandoned his studies. His first poem appeared in 1947. Supported by Bertold Brecht, he published in the satirical paper ''Ulenspiegel''. In 1950, his first poetry colle ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Odo Marquard
Odo Marquard (26 February 1928 – 9 May 2015) was a German philosopher. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Giessen from 1965 to 1993. In 1984 he received the Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose. Early life and education Odo Marquard was born in Stolp, Farther Pomerania. He studied philosophy, German literature and theology, obtaining his doctorate at the University of Münster and his habilitation at the University of Freiburg. In Münster he studied under Joachim Ritter, whose Ritter School he sometimes is considered a member of. An even greater influence was Max Müller, whom Marquard studied under in Freiburg, and his use of the philosophy of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger to create a phenomenological update of neo-scholasticism. Career From 1965 to 1993, Marquard held a chair for philosophy at the University of Giessen, serving as dean of the philosophical faculty. In 1982–1983 he was a fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study. Fro ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michael Maar
Michael Maar (born July 17, 1960, in Stuttgart) is a German literary scholar, germanist and author. For his 1995 doctoral dissertation on Thomas Mann, titled ''Geister und Kunst'', he was awarded the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. He was himself elected a member of the academy in 2002. He was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin from 1997 to 1998, and Visiting Professor at Stanford University in 2002. From 2005 to 2006 he was a Fellow of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung. In 2008, he became a member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste. His 2005 book ''The Two Lolitas'', as well as two articles in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and The Times Literary Supplement the previous year, argued that Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel ''Lolita'' was most likely based on an until-then little known 1916 short story by German author Heinz von Lichberg, also titled ''Lolita'' and featuring an identical theme. The disco ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Wolf Jobst Siedler
Wolf Jobst Siedler (17 January 1926 – 27 November 2013) was a German publisher and writer. Life Born in Berlin, he studied at the Freie Universität and worked as a journalist. His publishing house ''Wolf Jobst Siedler Verlag'' was bought in 1989 by Bertelsmann-Gruppe. He has authored several books and wrote for many German publications including the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'', the ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'', ''Die Zeit'', ''Die Welt'' and ''Junge Freiheit''. Siedler was interviewed about his assessments of Albert Speer in the docudrama ''Speer und Er''. Honours * Karl-Friedrich-Schinkel-Ring * Ernst-Robert-Curtius-Preis * Deutscher Nationalpreis (2002) * Gerhard Löwenthal Prize, honorary prize References Sources *Clive James Clive James (born Vivian Leopold James; 7 October 1939 – 24 November 2019) was an Australian critic, journalist, broadcaster, writer and lyricist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1962 until his death in 2019. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Norbert Hinterberger
Norbert is a Germanic given name, from '' nord'' "north" and ''berht'' "bright". Norbert is also occasionally found as a surname. People with the given name Academia * Norbert Angermann (born 1936), German historian * Norbert A’Campo (born 1941), Swiss mathematician * Norbert Berkowitz (1924–2001), Canadian scientist * Norbert Bischofberger (born 1954), Austrian scientist * Norbert Bolz (born 1953), German philosopher * Norbert Elias (1897–1990), German Jewish sociologist * Norbert Fuhr (born 1956), German computer scientist * Norbert Geng (born 1965), German legal scholar * Norbert Guterman (1900–1984), American translator * Norbert von Hellingrath (1888-1916), German literary scholar * Norbert Hirschhorn (born 1938), American physician * Norbert Hornstein, American linguist * Norbert Jokl (1877–1942?), Austrian Jewish linguist * Norbert Klatt (born 1949), German religious scholar * Norbert Leser (1933–2014), Austrian political scientist * Norbert Lynton (1927–200 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rüdiger Safranski
Rüdiger Safranski (born 1 January 1945) is a German philosopher and author. Life From 1965 to 1972, Safranski studied philosophy (among others with Theodor W. Adorno), German literature, history and history of art at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the Free University in Berlin (then West Berlin). There, he worked as an assistant lecturer for German literature from 1972 to 1977. He earned a PhD from FU Berlin in 1976 for a dissertation by the title of "Studies on the Development of Working-Class Literature in the Federal Republic of Germany" (original german: Studien zur Entwicklung der Arbeiterliteratur in der Bundesrepublik). In the late 1970s, he worked as the co-publisher and editor of the ''Berliner Hefte'', a journal on ''literary life''. From 1977 to 1982, Safranski worked as a lecturer in adult education. Since 1987 he has worked as a freelance writer. In 2005 he married his longtime girlfriend Gisela Nicklaus. He lives in Berlin and Badenweiler. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Doron Rabinovici
Doron Rabinovici is an Israeli-Austrian writer, historian and essayist. He was born in Tel Aviv in 1961, and moved to Vienna in 1964. Overview His first book, ''Papirnik'' (Suhrkamp, 1994), was a collection of short stories, most of them set in Vienna's Jewish environment. His novel ''Suche nach M.'', published three years later, was subsequently translated into English as ''Search for M.'' (2000), issued by the US publishing company Ariadne Press. ''Search for M.'' is the portrayal of two families with Shoah survivors, and their sons, who live with memories they can't express, in the midst of the Austrians' negation and denial of their past. In his next novel, ''Ohnehin'' (Anyway; 2004), the main protagonist, a young neurologist, Stefan Sandtner, is confronted with a patient whose sudden and bewildering illness of the mind causes his memory to fail and sets him back in the year 1945: The patient, Herbert Kerber, is stuck in his past as an SS officer. The novel's apparent light ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Helmut Böttiger
Helmut is a German name. Variants include Hellmut, Helmuth, and Hellmuth. From old German, the first element deriving from either ''heil'' ("healthy") or ''hiltja'' ("battle"), and the second from ''muot'' ("spirit, mind, mood"). Helmut may refer to: People A–L *Helmut Angula (born 1945), Namibian politician *Helmut Ashley (1919–2021), Austrian director and cinematographer *Helmut Bakaitis (born 1944), Australian director and actor *Helmut Berger (born 1944), Austrian actor *Helmut Dantine (1917–1982), Austrian actor * Helmut Deutsch (born 1945), Austrian classical pianist *Helmut Ditsch (born 1962), Argentine painter * Hellmut Diwald (1924–1993), German historian * Helmut Donner (born 1941), Austrian high jumper *Helmut Fischer (1926–1997), German actor *Hellmut von Gerlach (1866–1935), German journalist * Helmut Goebbels (1935–1945), only son of Joseph Goebbels *Helmut Griem (1932–2004), German actor *Helmut Gröttrup (1916–1981), German rocket scientist *Helm ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hubert Markl
Hubert Simon Markl (17 August 1938 – 8 January 2015) was a German biologist who also served as president of the Max Planck Society from 1996 to 2002. Early life Markl was born on 17 August 1938 in Regensburg, Germany. He studied biology, chemistry and geography at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He completed his Ph.D. in zoology from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1962. He did research internships at Harvard University and Rockefeller University in 1965–1966. In 1976, he earned his Habilitation (postdoctoral lecturing qualification) in zoology from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Academic career and research From 1968 to 1973, Markl worked as full professor and director of the Zoological Institute at the Darmstadt University of Technology. Since 1974, he has been Professor of Biology at the University of Konstanz. From 1977 to 1983, he was vice president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and from 1986 to 1991, he ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Thomas Hettche
Thomas Hettche (born 30 November 1964 in Treis, Hesse) is a German author. Hettche completed his ''Abitur'' at the Liebigschule Giessen, He studied German studies and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and completed his PhD in philosophy. ''What We Are Made Of'', an English translation by Shaun Whiteside of Hettche's novel ''Woraus wir gemacht sind'' (2006), was published by Picador in Britain in July 2008, and in the United States in October 2010.Pitt, David (15 September 2010). "What We Are Made Of" (review). ''Booklist''. p. 33. Retrieved via ''Biography In Context'' database, 6 May 2019. Since 2018, he has been honorary professor at the TU Berlin. Hettche lives in Berlin. Awards * 1990 Rauris Literature Prize * 2014 Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize * 2015 Solothurner Literaturpreis * 2018 Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis * 2019 Joseph-Breitbach-Preis Memberships * 1999 PEN Centre Germany * 2019 Academy of Arts, Berlin The Academy of Ar ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Karl Dietrich Bracher
Karl Dietrich Bracher (13 March 1922 – 19 September 2016) was a German political scientist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. Born in Stuttgart, Bracher was awarded a Ph.D. in the classics by the University of Tübingen in 1948 and subsequently studied at Harvard University from 1949 to 1950. During World War II, he served in the Wehrmacht and was captured by the Americans while serving in Tunisia in 1943. Bracher taught at the Free University of Berlin from 1950 to 1958 and at the University of Bonn since 1959. In 1951 Bracher married Dorothee Schleicher, the niece of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. They had two children.Ruud van Dijk, "Bracher, Karl Dietrich," in Kelly Boyd, ed., ''The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing'', Vol. 1, London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999, pp. 111–112. Historical views Researching the collapse of Weimar Bracher was mainly concerned with the problems of preserving and developing democracy. Bracher was consistent in all his ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |