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Ernst Reuter Prize
The Ernst Reuter Prize (''Ernst-Reuter-Preis'') is a German national prize for audio plays (''Hörspiel'') and radio documentation about the divided Germany, named after Ernst Reuter. It was awarded from 1959 to 1991 by the Bundesministerium für innerdeutsche Beziehungen for audio plays and radio documentation, doted 10,000 DM dotiert.www.spiegel.de Zur Nicht-Preisvergabe 1979 und den Stiftern des Preises Nr. 53/1979 vom 31. Dezember 1979 It was awarded to productions that dealt with relations of people from the two German nations ("Verhältnis der Menschen in den beiden deutschen Staaten zueinander"). Selected recipients * |
Ernst Reuter
Ernst Rudolf Johannes Reuter (29 July 1889 – 29 September 1953) was the mayor of West Berlin from 1948 to 1953, during the time of the Cold War. Biography Early years Reuter was born in Apenrade (Aabenraa), Province of Schleswig-Holstein (now in Denmark). He spent his childhood days in Leer where a public square is named after him. Reuter attended the universities of Münster and Marburg where he completed his studies in 1912 and passed the examinations as a teacher. Moreover, he was member in a fraternity called "SBV Frankonia Marburg". The same year he became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Reuter opposed Kaiser Wilhelm's regime at the start of the First World War. After being drafted, Reuter was sent to the Eastern front where he was wounded and captured by the Russians. During the 1917 October Revolution Reuter joined the Bolsheviks and organized his fellow prisoners into a soviet. After his release, Lenin sent him to Saratov in the to-be-es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of Intra-German Relations
The Federal Minister of Intra-German Relations (german: Bundesminister für innerdeutsche Beziehungen) was a federal cabinet minister of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). The office was created under the title of Federal Minister of All-German Affairs (''Bundesminister für gesamtdeutsche Fragen'') in 1949, being also in charge of the German lands east of the Oder–Neisse line which had been put under Polish or Soviet administration. In 1951, the first Minister of All-German Affairs Jakob Kaiser openly raised claim to even greater territories including Austria, parts of Switzerland, the Saar area and Alsace-Lorraine.Speech held at the party congress of Austrian People's Party in Salzburg, 2 March 1951. Quoted in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 26 January 1952, page 5 The ministry was renamed in 1969 because "All-German" might have evoked irredentist associations. The change of the name was supported by both left- and right-wing politicians. The ministry was abolished in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutsche Mark
The Deutsche Mark (; English: ''German mark''), abbreviated "DM" or "D-Mark" (), was the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until the adoption of the euro in 2002. In English, it was typically called the "Deutschmark" (). One Deutsche Mark was divided into 100 pfennigs. It was first issued under Allied occupation in 1948 to replace the Reichsmark and served as the Federal Republic of Germany's official currency from its founding the following year. On 31 December 1998, the Council of the European Union fixed the irrevocable exchange rate, effective 1 January 1999, for German mark to euros as DM 1.95583 = €1. In 1999, the Deutsche Mark was replaced by the euro; its coins and banknotes remained in circulation, defined in terms of euros, until the introduction of euro notes and coins on 1 January 2002. The Deutsche Mark ceased to be legal tender immediately upon the introduction of the euro—in contrast to the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Spiegel
''Der Spiegel'' (, lit. ''"The Mirror"'') is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. With a weekly circulation of 695,100 copies, it was the largest such publication in Europe in 2011. It was founded in 1947 by John Seymour Chaloner, a British army officer, and Rudolf Augstein, a former Wehrmacht radio operator who was recognized in 2000 by the International Press Institute as one of the fifty World Press Freedom Heroes. Typically, the magazine has a content to advertising ratio of 2:1. ''Der Spiegel'' is known in German-speaking countries mostly for its investigative journalism. It has played a key role in uncovering many political scandals such as the ''Spiegel'' affair in 1962 and the Flick affair in the 1980s. According to ''The Economist'', ''Der Spiegel'' is one of continental Europe's most influential magazines. The news website by the same name was launched in 1994 under the name ''Spiegel Online'' with an independent editorial staff. Today, the content is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Menge
Wolfgang Menge (10 April 1924 – 17 October 2012) was a German television writer and journalist. Life Menge worked as television writer and journalist in Germany. He was married and had three sons. In: '''', 18 October 2012 Filmography Literature: Book: ''Ganz einfach – chinesisch'' in der Rowohlt Reihe: ''Koche froh mit rororo'', 1968, 580-External links * *Wolfgang Menge krimilexikon.de [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingeborg Drewitz
Ingeborg Drewitz (born Ingeborg Neubert; 10 January 1923 – 26 November 1986) was a German writer and academic. Life and career Drewitz was born in Berlin. She graduated in 1941 from the Königin-Luise-Schule in Berlin-Friedenau, and took a doctorate in German literature, history, and philosophy, on 20 April 1945, at the Friedrich-Wilhelm University (today's Humboldt University in Berlin). Her thesis was on German poet Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer. From 1973 to 1980 she taught at the Institute of Journalism at the Free University of Berlin. A year before her death she was a juror at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt. She married her childhood sweetheart, Bernhard Drewitz, by whom she had three daughters. She died in Berlin, aged 63, of complications of cancer. Writings As a writer, she was interested in the Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment and addressed Germany's post-war history and the past and present social history of women. According to ''Knaurs Lex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Brasch
Thomas Brasch (19 February 1945 – 3 November 2001) was a German author, poet and film director. Life Born in Westow, Yorkshire, England, Thomas Brasch was the son of German Jewish Communist émigré parents. In 1947, the family returned to East Germany. Brasch attended school in Cottbus. From 1956 to 1960, he was at the National People's Army Cadet School and made his Abitur. From 1964, he studied journalism in Leipzig and was forced in 1965 to ex-matriculate. Since 1966 he worked at the theater Volksbühne Berlin. and studied dramaturgy at the film school Babelsberg afterwards. In 1968, he was relegated and imprisoned for "anti-state agitation", because of the protest against the invasion of the CSSR. In 1971, after being a miller in a Berlin factory, he worked in the Brecht archive and was then freelance writer. In 1976, after protesting against Wolf Biermann's expatriation, he moved to West Germany. Brasch was in a relationship with the actress Katharina Thalbach. Brasch d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tilo Medek
Tilo Medek, originally Müller-Medek (22 January 1940 – 3 February 2006), was a German classical composer, musicologist and music publisher. He grew up in East Germany, but was inspired by the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He composed radio plays and incidental music. His setting of Lenin's ''Decree on Peace'' led to restrictions, and after he showed solidarity with the expatriated Wolf Biermann, he also had to move to the West, where he composed an opera ''Katharina Blum'' based on Heinrich Böll's novel, and worked in education. He received international awards from 1967 onwards. Career Müller-Medek was born in Jena, the son of the composer and musician Willy Müller-Medek (1897–1965) and his wife Rosa (1902–1976). He received musical training at the Jenaer Musikschule in violin, piano, improvisation and music theory. In 1957 he attended the 12th Darmstädter Ferienkurse in the western part of Germany where he took classes with Alexander Jemnitz, Luigi Nono, Hermann Scherch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gotthardt
Peter Gotthardt (born 22 August 1941) is a German composer, musician and publisher. Film melodies composed by him (more than 500 in total) are known to a wide audience, including major successes such as the pieces ''Wenn ein Mensch lebt'' and ' performed by the Puhdys from the 1973 DEFA feature film ''The Legend of Paul and Paula'', directed by Heiner Carow. Life Born in Leipzig, from 1961 to 1966, Gotthardt studied piano, Répétiteur, correpetition, conducting and composition (music), composing at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin. In 1965, he wrote his first composition for a documentary film by . A year later, he wrote his first orchestral work. In 1968, he began his first collaboration with Heiner Carow for the DEFA film ''The Russians Are Coming'', which resulted in five joint films in the following years. From 1975 to 1976, he was also head of incidental music at the Rostock Volkstheater. He has worked as a freelance composer since 1976. In 1991, he found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Sparschuh
Jens Sparschuh (born 14 May 1955) is a German writer from Chemnitz. Life Sparschuh was born in Chemnitz (then Karl-Marx-Stadt) and grew up in East Berlin. After graduation in Halle (Saale) he studied philosophy and logic in Leningrad from 1973 until 1978. From 1978, he was assistant-scientist at the Humboldt University of Berlin and in 1983 he got his Ph.D. for the thesis „heuristischen Ausdrucksfähigkeit aussagenlogischer Beweisbegriffe“. From then on, Sparschuh makes his living as a writer of novels, essays, poetry and audio books. After the German reunification he briefly was member of the New Forum. In 2006 and 2019 he gave short courses in Grinnell-College on German literature. He also gave lessons in the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig. Awards * 1988 Anna-Seghers-Preis * 1990 Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden * 1996 Förderpreis of the Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen * 2018 Prix Chronos * 2019 Günter-Grass-Preis Works Non fiction * ''Erkenntnistheoretis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Literary Awards
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