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Friedrich-Gundolf-Preis
Friedrich-Gundolf-Preis is a literary prize of Germany. It was established by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in 1964 to promote German culture outwith Germany. The award is named after the Germanist Friedrich Gundolf. The award is endowed with €15,000. Award winners *1964 Robert Minder *1965 Frederick Norman *1966 Victor Lange *1967 Eudo C. Mason *1968 Oskar Seidlin *1969 Eduard Goldstücker *1970 Erik Lunding *1971 Zoran Konstantinovi *1972 Ladislao Mittner *1973 Gustav Korlén *1974 Herman Meyer *1975 Elizabeth M. Wilkinson *1976 Marian Szyrocki *1977 Franz H. Mautner *1978 Claude David *1979 Zdenko Skreb *1980 Lev Kopelev *1981 Leonard Forster *1982 Tomio Tezuka *1983 Jean Fourquet *1984 Stuart Atkins *1985 Mazzino Montinari *1986 Siegbert S. Prawer *1987 Viktor Žmegač *1988 Feng Zhi *1989 Leslie Bodi *1990 Konstantin Asadowski *1991 Giorgio Strehler *1992 Emil Skala *1993 Patrice Chéreau *1994 Helen Wolff *1995 Philippe Lacoue-L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oskar Seidlin
Oskar Seidlin (February 17, 1911 – December 11, 1984) was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who fled first to Switzerland and then to the U.S. He taught German language and literature as a professor at Smith College, Middlebury College, Ohio State University, and Indiana University from 1939 to 1979. He authored a number of fictional and non-fictional works. Early years and education He was born Salo Oskar Koplowitz to Johanna (1885–1943?) and Heinrich Koplowitz (1872–1938), a lumber dealer in Königshütte in the Upper Silesia Basin of Germany (now Chorzów in southwestern Poland) who served for many years as a city council alderman and was an active Zionist and member of the Jewish community. After completing secondary schooling at the humanities-focused ''Realgymnasium'' in Beuthen (now Bytom) in 1929, he enrolled for one semester at the University of Freiburg and then transferred to the recently founded University of Frankfurt, which enjoyed a reputation as Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Žmegač
Viktor Žmegač (21 March 1929 – 20 July 2022) was a Croatian musicologist and scholar. He authored a number of books, articles and essays in the areas of cultural history, literary theory, musicology, art history, and German studies. Žmegač was born in Slatina on 21 March 1929. After finishing elementary school in his home town he went on to attend gymnasiums in Virovitica and Osijek. He then enrolled at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy and earned a double major degree in Yugoslav and German studies. He also studied musicology and German studies in University of Göttingen. He earned a doctorate in 1959 and later spent almost 30 years as a tenured university professor teaching German literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, from 1971 until his retirement in 1999. He was made professor emeritus in 2002. Žmegač was a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) and member of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eudo Mason
Eudo Colecestra Mason (1901–1969) was a scholar and professor of German at Edinburgh University, joining in 1946 and becoming Chair of German in 1951, a position he held until his death in 1969, only the third person to take the role since 1919. He had previously worked as a lecturer in Münster, Leipzig, and Basle. Mason attended school in Cambridge, before studying at both the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford completing his Doctorate in Leipzig. His thesis on Austrian-Bohemian poet Rainer Maria Rilke was published in 1938. Mason was seen as the principal scholar in the revival of Henry Fuseli. In 1967 Mason won the Friedrich Gundolf Prize. His final works, ''Holderlin and Goethe:3'' was published posthumously in 1975. In 2004, the Chair of German at the University of Edinburgh was renamed the Eudo C. Mason Chair of German. Personal life Mason was born in Colchester, Essex on 29 September 1901 to Ernest Nathan Mason, an engineer's draughtsman and Bertha Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutsche Akademie Für Sprache Und Dichtung
The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (in English German Academy for Language and Literature) was founded on 28 August 1949, on the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt. It is seated in Darmstadt, since 1971 in the Glückert House at the Darmstadt Artists' Colony. It is a society of writers and scholars on matters pertaining to German language and literature in the ''Deutsche sprachraum'', or Germanosphere. Conferences * Spring conference at changing locations in Germany and abroad * Autumn conference in Darmstadt Literary awards * Since 1951 it has awarded the Georg Büchner Prize, the most important literary prize in the German language (awarded at autumn conference). * The Sigmund Freud Prize, was instituted in memory of Sigmund Freud in 1964 (awarded at autumn conference). * That same year, the annual Friedrich-Gundolf-Preis was instituted for the promotion of German culture in foreign countries, in memory of Friedrich Gundo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Bodi
Leslie Bodi (1922–2015) was the foundation Professor of German and long-term head of the department (1963-1987) at Monash University. Early life and education Bodi was born László Bodi in Budapest, Hungary on 1 September 1922. His parents were István Bruchsteiner, a publisher, and Klara (née Pongrácz). Obituary for Leslie Bodi ''TRANS Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften , Internet journal for cultural studies , Revue électronique de recherches sur la culture'', inst.at. Retrieved 10 March 2020. He attended school in Hungary and Italy. After working as a graphics instructor and offset machine operator in 1940-43, he spent 18 months in a forced labour camp (1943–45). At the end of the Second World War, he studied German and English at the university level in Budapest and |
Friedrich Gundolf
Friedrich Gundolf, born Friedrich Leopold Gundelfinger (20 June 1880 – 12 July 1931) was a German-Jewish literary scholar and poet and one of the best known academics of the Weimar Republic. Education Gundolf, who was the son of a mathematician, studied art history and German language and literature at the universities of Munich, Berlin and Heidelberg. He received his doctorate in 1903 and completed his ''Habilitation'' (attainment of professor's status) eight years later. His habilitation work about "Shakespeare and the German spirit" (''Shakespeare und der deutsche Geist'', 1911), marked a turning point in German language and literature studies. He also was an important member of the '' Georgekreis'', which he joined in 1899. He published first poems in Stefan George's periodical, the ''Blätter für die Kunst''. During 1910 and 1911, he edited the ''Jahrbuch für die geistige Bewegung'' (''Yearbook for the Spiritual Movement''), which preached the cultural political opin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feng Zhi
Feng Zhi (; 17 September 1905 – 22 February 1993) was a Chinese writer and translator. He was also the director and then honorary director of the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences since 1964. Feng published several collections of poems, including ''Songs of Yesterday'' and ''Northern Journey and Other Poems'', in his early life. Then he went to Germany and introduced the poetry of Rilke, Goethe, Heine, along with Novalis afterwards, thus he was bestowed Goethe Medal in the 1980s. He was also a scholar of Du Fu Du Fu (; 712–770) was a Tang dynasty poet and politician. Along with his elder contemporary and friend Li Bai (Li Po), he is frequently called the greatest of the Chinese poets.Ebrey, 103. His greatest ambition was to serve his country as .... References {{Authority control 1905 births 1993 deaths 20th-century Chinese male writers 20th-century Chinese translators 20th-century Chinese poets People's Republic of China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantin Asadowski
The first name Konstantin () is a derivation from the Latin name ''Constantinus'' (Constantine) in some European languages, such as Russian and German. As a Christian given name, it refers to the memory of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. A number of notable persons in the Byzantine Empire, and (via mediation by the Christian Eastern Orthodox Church) in Russian history and earlier East Slavic history are often referred to by this name. "Konstantin" means "firm, constant". There is a number of variations of the name throughout European cultures: * Константин (Konstantin) in Russian (diminutive Костя/Kostya), Bulgarian (diminutives Косьо/Kosyo, Коце/Kotse) and Serbian * Костянтин (Kostiantyn) in Ukrainian (diminutive Костя/Kostya) * Канстанцін (Kanstantsin) in Belarusian * Konstantinas in Lithuanian * Konstantīns in Latvian * Konstanty in Polish (diminutive Kostek) * Constantin in Romanian (diminutive Costel), French * K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude David
Claude may refer to: __NOTOC__ People and fictional characters * Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Claude (surname), a list of people * Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher traditionally called just "Claude" in English * Madame Claude, French brothel keeper Fernande Grudet (1923–2015) Places * Claude, Texas, a city * Claude, West Virginia, an unincorporated community Other uses * Allied reporting name of the Mitsubishi A5M Japanese carrier-based fighter aircraft * Claude (alligator) Claude is an albino alligator (''Alligator mississippiensis'') at the California Academy of Sciences. Claude lacks the pigment melanin, resulting in colorless skin, and he has poor eyesight associated with his albinism. Background Claude was hat ..., an albino alligator at the California Academy of Sciences See also * Claude's syndrome, a form of brainstem stroke syndrome {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegbert Salomon Prawer
Siegbert Salomon Prawer (15 February 1925 – 5 April 2012) was Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. Life and works Prawer was born on 15 February 1925 in Cologne, Germany, to Jewish parents Marcus and Eleanora (Cohn) Prawer. Marcus was a lawyer from Poland and Eleanora's father was cantor of Cologne's largest synagogue. His sister Ruth was born in 1927. The family fled the Nazi regime in 1939, emigrating to Britain. Educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry, and Jesus College, Cambridge, he was lecturer at the University of Birmingham from 1948 to 1963, Professor of German at Westfield College, London, from 1964, and became Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford in 1969. He was awarded his PhD by Birmingham University in 1953 (PhD, University of Birmingham, Department of German, 1953, 'A critical analysis of 24 consecutive poems from Heine's Romanzero'). He was a Fellow (then an H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mazzino Montinari
Mazzino Montinari (4 April 1928 – 24 November 1986) was an Italian scholar of Germanistics. A native of Lucca, he became regarded as one of the most distinguished researchers on Friedrich Nietzsche, and harshly criticized the edition of '' The Will to Power'', which he regarded as a forgery, in his book ''The will to power does not exist''. After the end of fascism in Italy, Montinari became an active member of the Italian Communist Party, with which he was occupied with the translation of German writings. During 1953, when he visited East Germany for research, he witnessed the Uprising of 1953. Later, after the suppression of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, he drifted away from orthodox Marxism and his career in party organizations. He did however keep his membership in the Italian Communist Party and stayed true to the aims of socialism. At the end of the 1950s, with Giorgio Colli, who was his teacher in the 1940s, Montinari began to prepare an Italian translation of Nietzsc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Atkins
Stuart may refer to: Names *Stuart (name), a given name and surname (and list of people with the name) Automobile *Stuart (automobile) Places Australia Generally *Stuart Highway, connecting South Australia and the Northern Territory Northern Territory *Stuart, the former name for Alice Springs (changed 1933) * Stuart Park, an inner city suburb of Darwin * Central Mount Stuart, a mountain peak Queensland *Stuart, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville *Mount Stuart, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville *Mount Stuart (Queensland), a mountain South Australia *Stuart, South Australia, a locality in the Mid Murray Council *Electoral district of Stuart, a state electoral district *Hundred of Stuart, a cadastral unit Canada * Stuart Channel, a strait in the Gulf of Georgia region of British Columbia United Kingdom *Castle Stuart United States * Stuart, Florida *Stuart, Iowa *Stuart, Nebraska *Stuart, Oklahoma *Stuart, Virginia *Stuart Township, Holt County, Nebraska * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
