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George-Konell-Preis
George-Konell-Preis was a literary prize of Hesse. Winners * 1998: Gudrun Pausewang * 2000: Stephan Kaluza * 2002: Katja Behrens * 2004: Ricarda Junge * 2006: Peter Kurzeck Peter Kurzeck (June 10, 1943 – November 25, 2013) was a German writer. Life Peter Kurzeck was born on June 10, 1943 in Tachau, Reichsgau Sudetenland, Nazi Germany. In 1946, his family moved to Germany and Kurzeck was raised in Staufenberg ... * 2008: Silke Scheuermann * 2010: Michael Schneider * 2012: Alissa Walser * 2014: Stephan Thome * 2016: Saskia Hennig von Lange * 2018: Eva Demski External links * Literary awards of Hesse Culture in Wiesbaden {{Germany-lit-award-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katja Behrens
Katja Behrens (born Katja Oswald; 18 December 1942 – 6 March 2021) was a German author and translator of Jewish descent. Biography Behrens was the daughter of Josef Oswald, a photographer, and Leni Oswald, an author and journalist. With her mother and grandmother, she went into hiding in the home of a Catholic priest in Austria during World War II and returned to Germany after the war. Behrens began working as a translator in 1960, translating works by authors such as William S. Burroughs, Henry Miller and Kenneth Patchen into German. She lived in Israel from 1968 to 1970. From 1973 to 1978, she was a reader for publisher Luchterhand Literaturverlag, moving to Darmstadt. Behrens has travelled to India, north Africa, the United States and South America. She was a member of the PEN Centre Germany and of the German authors' association . Behrens has been a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis and at Dartmouth College. She has been awarded the by the Festiva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Kurzeck
Peter Kurzeck (June 10, 1943 – November 25, 2013) was a German writer. Life Peter Kurzeck was born on June 10, 1943 in Tachau, Reichsgau Sudetenland, Nazi Germany. In 1946, his family moved to Germany and Kurzeck was raised in Staufenberg near Giessen, Hesse. As a young man, he wrote for local newspapers and magazines. In 1977, he moved to Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany. Since the mid-1990s, Kurzeck has been working on a multi-volume autobiographical novel project entitled ''Das alte Jahrhundert'' (''The Old Century'') which, according to its narrative framework, is based in Frankfurt am Main in 1984. He died on November 25, 2013 in Frankfurt am Main. Legacy Kurzeck's daughter Carina inherited the rights to his work. While most of his books were previously published by Stroemfeld Verlag, in December 2018 a change of publisher to Verlag Schöffling & Co. was announced, which is to bring out four more estate volumes. Works * ''Der Nußbaum gegenüber vom Laden, in dem ... [...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] |
Hesse
Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major historic cities are Darmstadt and Kassel. With an area of 21,114.73 square kilometers and a population of just over six million, it ranks seventh and fifth, respectively, among the sixteen German states. Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Germany's second-largest metropolitan area (after Rhine-Ruhr), is mainly located in Hesse. As a cultural region, Hesse also includes the area known as Rhenish Hesse (Rheinhessen) in the neighbouring state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Name The German name '':wikt:Hessen#German, Hessen'', like the names of other German regions (''Schwaben'' "Swabia", ''Franken'' "Franconia", ''Bayern'' "Bavaria", ''Sachsen'' "Saxony"), derives from the dative plural form of the name of the inhabitants or German tribes, eponymous tribe, the Hes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gudrun Pausewang
Gudrun Pausewang (3 March 1928 – 23 January 2020), less commonly known by her married name, Gudrun Wilcke, was a German author of children's and young adult literature. She was known for books such as ''The Last Children of Schewenborn'' and ''Die Wolke'' (''The Cloud'', translated in the English book title as ''Fall-Out'') which were made part of German school canons. Among her primary topics were work for peace and protection of the environment, namely warning of the alleged dangers of nuclear energy. Her books have been translated into English and received international recognition and awards. Biography Pausewang was born in Wichstadtl (now Mladkov), Eastern Bohemia, a member of the German minority in Czechoslovakia. Her father was Siegfried Pausewang, and she was the eldest of six siblings. After the Nazis annexed the area, she became a Jungmädel at age 10 and remained in the organisation until age 17. Her father died in World War II, and her mother fled with the child ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephan Kaluza
Stephan may refer to: * Stephan, South Dakota, United States * Stephan (given name), a masculine given name * Stephan (surname), a Breton-language surname See also * Sankt-Stephan * Stefan (other) * Stephan-Oterma * Stephani * Stephen (other) Stephen is a masculine given name. Stephen may also refer to: People * Stephen (surname), including a list of people with the surname * Stephen (honorific), a South Slavic medieval honorific Places * Stephen, Minnesota, United States * Mount S ... * von Stephan {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricarda Junge
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Michael Schneider (writer)
Michael or Mike Schneider may refer to: * Michael Schneider (composer), Swiss composer and musicologist * Michael Schneider (conductor) (born 1953), German recorder player, flautist, and conductor * Michael Schneider (Jewish activist), secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress * Michael A. Schneider (born 1950), American politician from Nevada * Michael H. Schneider Sr. (born 1943), U.S. federal judge * (born 1967), Austrian artist and teacher * (1909–1994), German organist and teacher * Mike Schneider (news anchor) (born 1952), American television personality * Mike Schneider (poker player) (born 1983), American professional poker player * Mike Schneider (born 1979), American musician, leader of the Mike Schneider Polka Band The Mike Schneider Polka Band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin is a Slovenian-style polka group that performs at approximately 100 events annually in Wisconsin and throughout the United States. Founded in 1996 by Mike Schneider, the band is a four-time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alissa Walser
Alissa Walser (born 1961) is a German writer, translator, and artist. She was born in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance. Her father is the German writer Martin Walser. She is known for her short stories, plays, novels, and translations. Many of her stories include drawings which seem to interrupt them but instead continue the narrative on a different level. She has won a number of German literary prizes. Life From 1981 to 1986 Alissa Walser studied painting in Vienna and New York City. After 1990 she began publishing translations and fiction. She lives in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) and is married to Sascha Anderson. Works available in English ''Mesmerized'', her first novel (''Am Anfang war die Nacht Musik,'' 2010), has been translated into English by Jamie Bulloch. It retells the encounter of the blind eighteenth-century pianist and composer Maria Theresia Paradis and the healing attempt by the scandalous doctor Franz Anton Mesmer. Thoriginal book cover for the German editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephan Thome
Stephan may refer to: * Stephan, South Dakota, United States * Stephan (given name), a masculine given name * Stephan (surname), a Breton-language surname See also * Sankt-Stephan * Stefan (other) * Stephan-Oterma * Stephani * Stephen (other) Stephen is a masculine given name. Stephen may also refer to: People * Stephen (surname), including a list of people with the surname * Stephen (honorific), a South Slavic medieval honorific Places * Stephen, Minnesota, United States * Mount S ... * von Stephan {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskia Hennig Von Lange
Saskia is a Germanic feminine given name. There are at least two different sources of the name. One is of North German and Northeast Netherlands origin, where it originally meant "a Saxon woman" ( metathesis of "Saxia"). Notable people with the name include: * Saskia Alusalu (born 1994), Estonian speed skater * Saskia Bartusiak (born 1982), German football player * Saskia Burmeister (born 1985), Australian actress * Saskia Clark (born 1979), British sailor * Saskia Howard Clarke, contestant on the ''Big Brother'' British television series in 2005 * Saskia Cohen-Tanugi (1959–2020), French actress and theatre director * Saskia de Brauw (born 1981), Dutch artist and model * Saskia de Coster (born 1976), Belgian writer * Saskia de Jonge (born 1986), Dutch swimmer * Saskia D’Onofrio (1924-1999), Finnish opera singer and actress, better known by her stage name Maaria Eira * Saskia Elemans (born 1977), Dutch cyclist * Saskia Esken (born 1961), German politician * Saskia Estupinan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Demski
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