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Fontane Prize Of The City Of Neuruppin
The Fontane Prize of the City of Neuruppin was donated in 1994 on the occasion of the 175th birthday of Theodor Fontane from his native city of Neuruppin. History The Fontane Literature Prize has several predecessors. It was awarded for the first time from 1913 to 1922, among others to Annette Kolb, Leonhard Frank, Carl Sternheim and Alfred Döblin. After 1949 there were two Fontane Prizes: The West Berlin Prize went to Hermann Kasack, Peter Huchel, Uwe Johnson, Arno Schmidt, Günter Grass, Wolf Biermann and Wolfgang Hilbig. Walter Kaufmann, Christa Wolf and , for example, received the prize from the GDR district of Potsdam. In 1994 the Fontane Literature Prize was re-established by Theodor Fontane's birthplace Neuruppin, and since 2010 it has been awarded every two years with the support of the patron Hans E. Weber. The award winners included Lutz Seiler, , Christoph Ransmayr and Josef Bierbichler. In 2019, the Fontane Literature Prize was awarded jointly for the first time by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neuruppin
Neuruppin (; North Brandenburgisch: ''Reppin'') is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, the administrative seat of Ostprignitz-Ruppin district. It is the birthplace of the novelist Theodor Fontane (1819–1898) and therefore also referred to as ''Fontanestadt''. A garrison town since 1688 and largely rebuilt in a Neoclassical style after a devastating fire in 1787, Neuruppin has the reputation of being "the most Prussian of all Prussian towns". Geography Geographical position Neuruppin is one of the largest cities in Germany in terms of area. The city of Neuruppin, northwest of Berlin in the district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin (Ruppin Switzerland), consists in the south of the districts located on the shores of Ruppiner See, which is crossed by the Rhin River, including the actual core city of Neuruppin and Alt Ruppin. In the north, it stretches up to the Rheinsberg Lake Region and the border with Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It is part of the Stechlin-Ruppiner Land Nature Park and is connected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Hilbig
Wolfgang Hilbig (31 August 1941 2 June 2007) was a German writer and poet. Life Wolfgang Hilbig was born in Meuselwitz, Germany. His grandfather had emigrated from Biłgoraj (Congress Poland, Russian Empire) before the First World War. In 1942, his father was reported missing at Stalingrad, leaving behind Hilbig and his mother. After his schooling in his home town, Hilbig began to work at a boring mill. Later, after military service, he worked as a tool maker and in assembly construction at the Meuselwitz lignite mine. In 1978, Hilbig moved to East Berlin, and in 1979 he became an independent writer. In 1985, he left the GDR with a travel visa and moved to West Germany. He lived in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall and married writer and translator Natascha Wodin in 1994. They had one daughter and divorced in 2002. Hilbig died from cancer in 2007 and is buried in the Dorotheenstädtischen Cemetery in Berlin. Work At first Hilbig favoured poetry, but his works r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Literary Awards
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Friedrich Christian Delius
Friedrich Christian Delius (13 February 1943 – 30 May 2022), also known by his pen name F.C. Delius, was a German novelist. He wrote books about historic events, such as the 1954 FIFA World Cup, and RAF terrorism. Four of his novels were translated into English, including ''The Pears of Ribbeck'' and ''Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman''. His awards include the Georg Büchner Prize of 2011. Biography Delius was born in Rome, where his father was pastor of the German Protestant Church. He grew up in Wehrda (since 1971 among the constituent communities of Haunetal) and Korbach in the state of Hesse. He studied German literature at the Free University and the Technical University in Berlin, and in London. He published poetry beginning at age 18, and appeared at the last meetings of the Gruppe 47 at age 21, as the second-youngest participant. He first worked in publishing firms such as Klaus Wagenbach and . The Siemens group went to court against the 1972 documentar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günter De Bruyn
Günter de Bruyn (; 1 November 1926 – 4 October 2020) was a German author. Life Günter de Bruyn was born in Berlin in November 1926; his father Carl was a Catholic from Bavaria. Günter served as a Luftwaffenhelfer and soldier in World War II. Wounded, he was then held in custody by the United States as a prisoner of war; after his release he found a job as a farm worker in Hesse. After his return to Berlin, he trained as a "new teacher" in Potsdam. Until 1949 he worked as a teacher in a village near Rathenow in Brandenburg. Subsequently, he trained as a librarian and worked at the ''Zentralinstitut für Bibliothekswesen'' (Central Institute for Library Knowledge) in East Berlin from 1953 to 1961. Since 1961 de Bruyn has lived as a freelance writer. From 1965 to 1978, he was a member of the ''Zentralvorstandes des Schriftstellerverbandes der DDR'' (Central Executive Committee of the Literary Association of East Germany); he was a member of the presidency of the PEN Centr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Jolles
Charlotte Alice Bertha Eva Jolles (5 October 1909 – 31 December 2003) was an Anglo-German literary scholar. She was an enthusiast and expert on the realist writer Theodor Fontane. Life Jolles was born in Berlin in 1909 and she was brought up at Grossbeeren Str. 82, Kreuzberg. Jolles wrote a Phd thesis in 1937 which was accepted and never published because the subject matter was not politically acceptable and Jolles was deemed half-Jewish. Her study concerned the German novelist Theodor Fontane. Jolles arrived in London in 1939 on a temporary visa. She worked with the children of refugees before she started teaching German at Watford Girls Grammar School. Jolles became a British citizen in 1946. In 1955 she was lecturing in German at Birkbeck College and she became a Professor in 1974.Helen Chambers, ‘Jolles, Charlotte Alice Berta Eva (1909–2003)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, January 2007; online edn, October 200accessed 8 Septembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Bierbichler
Josef Bierbichler (born 26 April 1948) is a German actor. Filmography * 1976: '' Heart of Glass'' – director: Werner Herzog * 1976: ''Die Atlantikschwimmer'' * 1977: '' Bierkampf'' – director: Herbert Achternbusch * 1977: ''Servus Bayern'' * 1977: ''Tatort'' – Schüsse in der Schonzeit * 1979: ''Woyzeck'' – director: Werner Herzog * 1981: ''Mein Freund der Scheich'' (TV film) * 1981: ''Der Neger Erwin'' * 1982: '' The Ghost'' – director: Herbert Achternbusch * 1983: ''Straight Through the Heart'' (TV film) * 1986: ''Heilt Hitler'' * 1987: ''Triumph der Gerechten'' * 1988: '' Wohin?'' * 1991: ' * 1993: ''Deadly Maria'' – director: Tom Tykwer * 1995: ''Dicke Freunde'' (TV film) * 1997: ''Picasso in München'' * 1997: ''Freier Fall'' (TV film) * 1997: ''Winter Sleepers'' – director: Tom Tykwer * 1998: ''Neue Freiheit – keine Jobs. Schönes München: Stillstand'' * 2000: ''Code Unknown'' – director: Michael Haneke * 2000: '' The Farewell'' – director: Jan Schütte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Ransmayr
Christoph Ransmayr (born 20 March 1954) is an Austrian writer. Life Born in Wels, Upper Austria, Ransmayr grew up in Roitham near Gmunden and the Traunsee. From 1972 to 1978 he studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna. He worked there as cultural editor for the newspaper ''Extrablatt'' from 1978 to 1982, also publishing articles and essays in ''GEO'', ''TransAtlantik'' and '' Merian''. After his novel '' Die letzte Welt'' was published in 1988, he traveled extensively across Ireland, Asia, North and South America. This is reflected in his works, where he looks at life as a tourist and believes that good writing needs ignorance, speechlessness, light luggage, curiosity, or at least a willingness not only to judge the world, but to experience it. In 1994 he moved to West Cork, Ireland, as a friend offered to lease him a splendid house on the Atlantic coast for a very affordable rent. In his prose, Ransmayr combines historical facts with fiction. His novels portray cross-borde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lutz Seiler
Lutz Seiler (born 8 June 1963 in Gera, Thuringia) is a German poet and novelist. Life and work Lutz Seiler grew up in the Langenberg district of Gera, Thuringia (former East Germany). After training as a skilled building construction worker, he worked as a bricklayer and carpenter. During his national service in the National People’s Army (NVA) of the DDR, he started to take an interest in literature and wrote his first poems. The poet Peter Huchel was amongst those he first admired. Later he said “Why I started to read and write, I still have no idea. Literature was of no interest to me.” During the DDR years Seiler’s home town of Gera grew rapidly to service the uranium mines at Ronneburg and in his early poetry the symbolism of radioactivity was significant. In the summer of 1989 Seiler worked as a seasonal employee on the island of Hiddensee, a popular former East German holiday resort located west of the island of Rügen off the north-eastern coast of Germany, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christa Wolf
Christa Wolf (; née Ihlenfeld; 18 March 1929 – 1 December 2011) was a German novelist and essayist. Barbara Garde, ''Deutsche Welle'', 1 December 2011 '' Der Spiegel'', 1 December 2011. She was one of the best-known writers to emerge from the former .Christa Wolf obituary Kate Webb, ''The Guardian'', 1 December 2011 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Kaufmann (author)
Walter Kaufmann (19 January 1924 – 15 April 2021) was a German-Australian writer. Kaufmann was born Jizchak Schmeidler in Berlin, the son of a Polish Jewish woman, Rachela Schmeidler. He was adopted by the wealthy German Jewish couple Dr. Sally and Johanna Kaufmann at the age of three. While his adoptive parents were eventually murdered in Auschwitz, Kaufmann fled to England during the outbreak of the War, and was later deported to Australia on the infamous ship ''HMT Dunera'' in 1940. He soon joined the Australian army as a volunteer. After the war and demobilisation he worked in different environments and various jobs at the same time trying to further his education. Kaufmann joined the Melbourne Realist Writers' Group and had some of his stories published in the ''Realist Writer''. He became politically active and travelled extensively. He was encouraged by writers such as Frank Hardy Francis Joseph Hardy (21 March 1917 – 28 January 1994), published as Frank J. Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf Biermann
Karl Wolf Biermann (; born 15 November 1936) is a German singer-songwriter, poet, and former East German dissident. He is perhaps best known for the 1968 song "Ermutigung" and his expatriation from East Germany in 1976. Early life Biermann was born in Hamburg, Germany. His mother, Emma (née Dietrich), was a Communist Party activist, and his father, Dagobert Biermann, worked on the Hamburg docks. Biermann's father, a Jewish member of the German Resistance, was sentenced to six years in prison for sabotaging Nazi ships. In 1942, the Nazis decided to eliminate their Jewish political prisoners and Biermann's father was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was murdered on 22 February 1943. Biermann was one of the few children of workers who attended the Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium (high school) in Hamburg. After the Second World War, he became a member of the Free German Youth (Freie Deutsche Jugend, FDJ) and in 1950, he represented the Federal Republic of Germany at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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