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Gerrit-Engelke-Preis
Gerrit-Engelke-Preis is a literary prize of Hannover, parallel to Kurt-Morawietz-Literaturpreis. Both are replaced by Hölty-Preis. * 1979: Günter Herburger and Günter Wallraff * 1981: Ingeborg Drewitz * 1983: Axel Eggebrecht * 1985: Max von der Grün * 1987: Gisela Elsner * 1989: Friedrich Christian Delius * 1991: Adam Seide * 1993: Helga M. Novak * 1995: Erich Hackl * 1997: Dea Loher * 1999: Kerstin Hensel * 2001: Angela Krauß * 2003: Lothar Baier * 2005: Lukas Bärfuss Lukas Bärfuss (born 30 December 1971) is a Swiss writer and playwright who writes in German. He won the Georg Büchner Prize in 2019. Biography Born in Thun, Switzerland in 1971, Lukas Bärfuss began training as a bookseller after graduating f ... German literary awards {{Germany-lit-award-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günter Herburger
Günter Herburger (April 6, 1932 – May 3, 2018) was a German writer. He was initially counted among the "New Realists" funded by , became the author of socialist, imaginative utopian worlds since the 1970s and took an outsider position in German-language contemporary literature. He was a writer of poems, children's books, radio plays and a member of the PEN Center Germany. Early life and education Herbrger was born in Isny, Allgäu. He was the son of a veterinarian. From 1945 to 1950 he attended the Urspring School in Schelklingen. He then began studying Sanskrit at the University of Munich. He also studied philosophy and theatre studies. Career In 1954 Herburger broke off his studies and went on trips. He lived occasionally in Ibiza, in Madrid and Oran and kept afloat with occasional work. In Paris he had contact with the author Joseph Breitbach. In 1956 he was forced to return to Munich for health reasons. He worked on his first novel. After marrying his first wife, Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Eggebrecht
Axel Constantin August Eggebrecht (10 January 1899 – 14 July 1991) was a German journalist, writer, and screenwriter. Life Eggebrecht grew up in bourgeois surroundings in Leipzig until 1917 when he volunteered to serve in the First World War where he received a serious wound, the effects of which he would continue to feel for his entire life. Indecisive politically, he alternated between right and left. After the war he was a member of nationalist organizations. From 1920 to 1925 he was a member of the KPD (Communist Party of Germany), traveling twice to the Soviet Union in 1923 and 1924, but he returned to Berlin disappointed in Bolshevism. In 1925 he began his work with Siegfried Jacobsohn's ''Die Weltbühne'', besides which he also wrote for the ''Literarische Welt''. In Berlin, he was one of the inhabitants of the so-called ''Künstlerkolonie Berlin'', a housing complex in southeastern Berlin constructed for the purpose of providing financially insecure writers and artists w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerstin Hensel
Kerstin Hensel (born 1961) is a German writer. Biography Hensel was born in 1961 in Karl-Marx Stadt in the former GDR. A trained nurse, she also studied at the Johannes R. Becher Institute of Literature in Leipzig. She has published numerous books in a variety of genres including novels, short stories, poetry and plays. She has won several literary prizes, among which the most notable are the Anna Seghers Prize in 1987 and the Lessing Prize (Förderpreis) in 1997. Awards * 1987 Anna Seghers-Preis * 1991 Leonce-und-Lena-Preis of the City of Darmstadt * 1995 Scholarship Villa Massimo, Rome * 1998 Förderpreis Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony * 2000 Gerrit-Engelke-Preis * 2004 Ida-Dehmel-Literaturpreis * 2008 Stahlpreis Eisenhüttenstadt * 2012 Member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin The Academy of Arts (german: Akademie der Künste) is a state arts institution in Berlin, Germany. The task of the Academy is to promote art, as well as to advise and support the states ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German States of Germany, state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany after Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen. Hanover's urban area comprises the towns of Garbsen, Langenhagen and Laatzen and has a population of about 791,000 (2018). The Hanover Region has approximately 1.16 million inhabitants (2019). The city lies at the confluence of the River Leine and its tributary the Ihme, in the south of the North German Plain, and is the largest city in the Hannover–Braunschweig–Göttingen–Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region. It is the fifth-largest city in the Low German dialect area after Hamburg, Dortmund, Essen and Bremen. Before it became the capital of Lower Saxony in 1946, Hannover was the capital of the Principality of Calenberg (1636–1692), the Electorat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lothar Baier
Lothar Baier (16 May 1942 – 11 July 2004) was a German author, publisher, translator and co-founder of the Literary periodical Text+Kritik. Baier was born in Karlsruhe. He was accepted as one of the most profound German thinkers of the Francophone World and was recognized with the 1982 Jean Améry Prize for Essayists and with the 2003 Gerrit Engelke Prize. Baier published amongst others in the ''Merkur'', in the ''Kursbuch'' and in the Deutschlandfunk and was for many years the editor of the Die Wochenzeitung (WOZ) in Zürich. On 11 July 2004, Baier committed suicide in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Works *''Über Ror Wolf''. Editor, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1972 *''Französischen Zustände. Berichte und Essays'' (French State. Reports and Essays). Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt 1982. *''Jahrsfrist''. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Verlag 1985 *''Firma Frankreich. Eine Betriebsbesichtigung'' (Company France. A Business Report). Berlin: Wagenbach 1988. *''Gleichheit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Krauß
Angela may refer to: Places * Angela, Montana * Angela Lake, in Volusia County, Florida * Lake Angela, in Lyon Township, Oakland County, Michigan * Lake Angela, the reservoir impounded by the source dam of the South Yuba River Fiction * Angela (character), in the ''Spawn'' and Marvel universes * Angela (Inheritance), a character in the Inheritance Cycle novels * Angela Martin, a character in ''The Office'' * Angela, a character in the '' Gargoyles'' TV series * Angela, a character in the ''Stranger Things'' Netflix TV Series, portplayed by Elodie Grace Orkin Music * angela (band), from Japan * ''Angela'' (album) by José Feliciano, 1976 * "Angela" (The Lumineers song), 2016 * "Angela" (Jarvis Cocker song), 2009 * "Angela" (Bee Gees song), 1987 * "Angela", a song by John Lennon and Yoko Ono from their album ''Some Time in New York City'' * "Angela", a song by Mötley Crüe from ''Decade of Decadence'' * "Angela", a song by Saïan Supa Crew from the album '' KLR'' * "Angela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dea Loher
Dea Loher (born 1964) is a German playwright and author. Biography Dea Loher was born Andrea Beate Loher in 1964 in Traunstein, Bavaria, Germany. She initially used the first name Dea as a pen name, but eventually changed her name officially to Dea. She studied German literature and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She then spent a year in Brazil. In 1990, she began studying creative writing for the stage with Heiner Müller and Yaak Karsunke at the Berlin University of the Arts. Her first plays premiered in the early 1990s, and she gained recognition as one of the most important young playwrights of her time in Germany.Dea Loher (Germany). ''internationales literaturfestival berlin'' Retrieved 18 March 2014 from http://www.literaturfestival.com/participants/authors/2010/dea-loher Dea Loher has since been awarded major prizes for drama and literature in Germany, including the Joseph-Breitbach-Preis. Works Dramas * ''Tätowierung'' (Premiere at the Ens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Hackl
Erich Hackl (born 26 May 1954 in Steyr, Upper Austria) is an Austrian novelist and short story writer. His works have been translated into English, Spanish, French, Czech and Hebrew though he is significantly better known in the German-speaking world. Many of his works, notably ''Sara und Simón'', bear resemblance to Latin-American testimonial literature, and as such have been the focus of scholarly research by Latin Americanists. His work has also been well received in the UK. A review in The Times Literary Supplement ''The Times Literary Supplement'' (''TLS'') is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp. History The ''TLS'' first appeared in 1902 as a supplement to ''The Times'' but became a separate publication ... called ''The Wedding in Auschwitz'' “an exceptional book” because the author “has chosen not to conceal the documentary origins of his novel. Rather than producing a researched-based fictionalized account, ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Adam Seide
Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Book of Genesis, Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as "mankind". tells of God's creation of the world and its creatures, including ''adam'', meaning humankind; in God forms "Adam", this time meaning a single male human, out of "the dust of the ground", places him in the Garden of Eden, and forms a woman, Eve, as his helpmate; in Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge and God condemns Adam to labour on the earth for his food and to return to it on his death; deals with the birth of Adam's sons, and lists his descendants from Seth to Noah. The Genesis creation myth was adopted by both Christianity and Islam, and the name of Adam accordingly appears in the Christian scriptures and in the Quran. He also features in subsequent folkloric and mystical elaborations i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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