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Grimmelshausen-Preis
Grimmelshausen-Preis is a literary prize in Germany, which is awarded since 1993 on every two years. The prize is named after Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, author of Simplicius Simplicissimus, a famous German book. The prize money is €10,000. Laureates * 1993: Ruth Klüger – ''weiter leben'' * 1995: Alban Nikolai Herbst – ''Wolpertinger oder Das Blau'' * 1997: Michael Köhlmeier – '' Telemach'' * 1999: Robert Menasse – ''Schubumkehr'' * 2001: Adolf Muschg – ''Sutters Glück'' * 2003: Brigitte Kronauer – ''Teufelsbrück''; sponsorship award: Ricarda Junge – ''Silberfaden'' * 2005: Dieter Forte – ''Auf der anderen Seite der Welt''; sponsorship award: Jagoda Marinić – ''Russische Bücher'' * 2007: Feridun Zaimoğlu – ''Leyla''; sponsorship award: Silke Scheuermann – ''Die Stunde zwischen Hund und Wolf'' * 2009: Reinhard Jirgl – ''Die Stille''; sponsorship award: Claudia Gabler – ''Die kleinen Raubtiere unter ihrem Pelz' * 2011: Pet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reinhard Jirgl
Reinhard Jirgl (born 16 January 1953 in East-Berlin) is a German writer. Biography Jirgl was born in Berlin-Friedrichshain. He became a skilled worker for electromechanics. Then he completed a degree in electronics at Humboldt University, Berlin. He made first attempts at prose during his studies in the early 1970s. From 1975 he worked as an engineer at the Academy of Sciences. He gave up his profession in 1978 to devote more time to writing. He worked as a lighting and service technician at the Volksbühne in Berlin. After submitting his first novel ''Mutter Vater Roman'' to a Berlin publishing house in 1985, he was accused of a "non-Marxist conception of history". The publication of the novel was refused. Until 1989, none of his manuscripts were published. Since 2009 he has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature. and he is member of the PEN Centre Germany. In 2010 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize by the German Academy for Language and Litera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dörte Hansen
Dörte Hansen (also known as Dörte Hansen-Jaax, born 1964 in Husum, West Germany) is a German linguist, journalist and writer. Life Hansen grew up in Högel in Nordfriesland; her family spoke Low German at home. She learned her "first foreign language," Standard German, in elementary school. After graduating high school ('' Abitur'') in 1984, she studied sociolinguistics, English studies, Romance studies and Frisian studies at the Christian Albrechts University Kiel. In 1994, Hansen received her doctorate at the University of Hamburg with a sociolinguistic thesis on a special form of bilingualism. Hansen is married to documentary filmmaker and has a daughter. From 2005 to 2016, she lived with her family in Steinkirchen, Lower Saxony and now lives in Husum. Work After an internship at the magazine '' Merian'' she worked until 2008 as a journalist for several radio stations ( NDR, WDR, SWR, hr, DLF) and various magazines, until 2012 then as a permanent cultural e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feridun Zaimoğlu
Feridun Zaimoğlu (born 4 December 1964, in Bolu) is a German author and visual artist of Turkish descent. Since 1995 Zaimoğlu has become one of the important poets of contemporary German language. His central themes are the problems of the second and third generation of Turkish immigrants to Germany. Life Feridun Zaimoğlu, born in Bolu/Turkey, came to Germany with his parents in 1965. Until 1985 he lived in Berlin and Munich, and then began studying medicine and arts in Kiel, where he is still living. He works as an author and journalist. His essays and critiques of literary have appeared in leading German newspapers, such as Die Zeit, Die Welt, SPEX and the Tagesspiegel. From 1999 to 2000 he worked in Mannheim at the National theatre. In 2003 he became ''Island poet'' on the island of Sylt, and in 2004 he was a visiting fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin. His first book " Kanak Sprak" 1995 attempts to express the authentic, tough and subversive power of slang languag ... [...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 de ... [...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] |
Jagoda Marinić
Jagoda Marinić (born September 20, 1977 in Waiblingen) is a prize-winning author, novelist, playwright, essayist, and journalist from Germany. She has what is often called a “migrant background,” a term she rejects; her parents emigrated from Dalmatia in Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia to Germany in the 1970s. She herself was born in Germany, became a German citizen, and speaks and writes in prominent venues about identity, migration, citizenship, and integration. She lives in Heidelberg. Early life and education Marinić studied American literature, German literature, and political science at Heidelberg University. Career Marinić's first book of stories, ''Eigentlich ein Heiratsantrag'', 'Actually a Marriage Proposal''was published in 2001 and she received the Grimmelshausen-Preis for her 2005 story collection ''Russische Bücher'' 'Russian Books'' Both collections appeared with Suhrkamp. She published her first novel, ''Die Namenlose'' 'The No-Name''in 2006. Her second nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Seethaler
Robert Seethaler (born 1966) is an Austrian novelist, and actor. Awards and honours * 2005: Tankred-Dorst-Drehbuchpreis der Drehbuchwerkstatt München for ''Heartbreakin’'' * 2007: Debütpreis des Buddenbrookhauses for ''Die Biene und der Kurt'' * 2008: Alfred-Döblin-Stipendium / Akademie der Künste Berlin * 2008: Kulturpreis des Landes Niederösterreich * 2008: ''My Mother, My Bride and I'' (dt. Die zweite Frau) at the International Toronto Film festival * 2009: Spreewald Literaturstipendium * 2009: Grimme-Preis for ''Die zweite Frau'' (Best Film) * 2009: Nominated for the Europäischen Medienpreis für Integration * 2011: Staatsstipendium der österreichischen Bundesregierung * 2011: Stipendium des Heinrich-Heine-Hauses der Stadt Lüneburg * 2015: Grimmelshausen-Preis for ''Ein ganzes Leben'' * 2016: Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize for ''A Whole Life'' * 2016: Buchpreis der Wiener Wirtschaft * 2017: Anton Wildgans Prize * 2017: Shortlisted for Internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Hein
Christoph Hein (; born 8 April 1944) is a German author and translator. He grew up in the village Bad Düben near Leipzig. Being a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule in the GDR, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin. After his ''Abitur'' he jobbed inter alia as assembler, bookseller and assistant director. From 1967 to 1971 Hein studied philosophy in Leipzig and Berlin. Upon graduation he became dramatic adviser at the Volksbühne in Berlin, where he worked as a resident writer from 1974. Since 1979 Hein has worked as a freelance writer. Hein first became known for his 1982 novella ''Der fremde Freund'' (''The Distant Lover''). From 1998 to 2000 Hein was the first president of the pan-German PEN-Centre. According to Hein, the acclaimed film drama ''The Lives of Others'' is loosely based on his life story. In a 2019 article, he claims that after attending the premiere screening, he asked author and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Muschg
Adolf Muschg (born 13 May 1934) is a Swiss writer and professor of literature. Muschg was a member of the Gruppe Olten. Biography Adolf Muschg was born in Zollikon, canton of Zürich, Switzerland. He studied German studies, English studies and philosophy at the universities of Zürich and Cambridge and earned his doctoral degree with a work about Ernst Barlach. Between 1959 and 1962, he worked as a teacher in Zürich. Different engagements as a teacher followed in (Göttingen), Japan and the US. From 1970 to 1999 Muschg was professor of German language and literature at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich. He wrote the foreword to Fritz Zorn’s controversial memoirs ''Mars (Fritz Zorn), Mars''. The book pointed out the supposedly "cancer-causing" lifestyle of Zurich's wealthy gold coast and provoked a scandal in Switzerland; its author died of cancer before its release. Muschg was also provocative with works like ''Wenn Auschwitz in der Schweiz liegt'' ("If A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Menasse
Robert Menasse (born 21 June 1954) is an Austrian writer. Biography Menasse was born in Vienna. As an undergraduate, he studied German studies, philosophy and political science in Vienna, Salzburg and Messina. In 1980 he completed his PhD thesis "Der Typus des Außenseiters im Literaturbetrieb. Am Beispiel Hermann Schürrer" ("The outsider phenotype within literature"). Between 1981 and 1988 Menasse worked as a junior lecturer at the Institute of Literature Theory at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He has been working as a freelance publicist, columnist and translator of novels from Portuguese into German ever since. His first novel ''Sinnliche Gewissheit'', published in 1988, is a semi-autobiographical tale of Austrians living in exile in Brazil. The magazine '' Literatur und Kritik'' published Menasse's first poem ("Kopfwehmut") in 1989. His later novels were ''Selige Zeiten, brüchige Welt'' (1991, translated into English as ''Wings of Stone'' ), ''Schubumkehr'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Köhlmeier
Michael Köhlmeier (born 15 October 1949 in Hard, Austria)"Prize Acknowledging Literary Achievements of Michael Köhlmeier" , 23.06.2008. Retrieved 01.03.2010. is a contemporary n writer and musician. He studied Politics and German (1970–1978) at the , |
Ruth Klüger
Ruth Klüger (30 October 1931 – 5 October 2020) was Professor Emerita of German Studies at the University of California, Irvine and a Holocaust survivor. She was the author of the bestseller ''weiter leben: Eine Jugend'' about her childhood in Nazi Germany. Biography Ruth Klüger was born on 30 October 1931 in Vienna. In March 1938, Hitler marched into Vienna. The annexation of Austria by the Nazis deeply affected Klüger's life: Klüger, who then was only six years old, had to change schools frequently and grew up in an increasingly hostile and antisemitic environment. Her father, who was a Jewish gynaecologist, lost his practitioner's license and was later sent to prison for performing an illegal abortion. In September 1942, she was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp at the age of 10, together with her mother; her father had tried to flee abroad, but was detained and murdered. One year later she was transferred to Auschwitz, then to Christianstadt, a subcamp of Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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