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Hans-Erich-Nossack-Preis
Hans-Erich-Nossack-Preis is a former literary prize of Germany, later Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft. Winners * 1989 Friederike Mayröcker * 1991 Helga M. Novak * 1992 Günter Herburger * 1993 Rolf Haufs * 1994 Edgar Hilsenrath * 1995 Anna Maria Jokl * 1996 Heinz Czechowski * 1997 Rafik Schami * 1998 Volker Braun * 1999 Wolfgang Hilbig * 2000 Peter Kurzeck * 2001 Jörg Steiner * 2002 Paul Wühr * 2003 Adolf Endler * 2004 Dieter Forte * 2005 Walter Kempowski * 2006 Ernst-Wilhelm Händler * 2007 Elke Erb Elke Erb (born 18 February 1938) is a German author-poet based in Berlin. She has also worked as a literary editor and translator. Biography Family provenance and early years Elke Erb was born at Rheinbach, Scherbach (today part of Rheinbach) i ... References German literary awards {{Germany-lit-award-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elke Erb
Elke Erb (born 18 February 1938) is a German author-poet based in Berlin. She has also worked as a literary editor and translator. Biography Family provenance and early years Elke Erb was born at Rheinbach, Scherbach (today part of Rheinbach) in the hills south of Bonn. Her parents had moved there with her uncle Otto and his family in 1937 in order, as her father put it, to "overwinter National Socialism". :de:Ewald Erb, Ewald Erb (1903–1978), her father, worked at the local tax office, having lost his academic post as a Marxist literary historian at the University of Bonn in Machtergreifung, 1933 on account of "Communist activities". Her mother Elisabeth worked on the land. Elke was the eldest of her parents' three daughters, all born in Scherbach between 1938 and 1941 when her father was conscripted for military service. Youngest of the three sisters is the author-poet Ute Erb. As a member of the Second World War, wartime Wehrmacht, German army :de:Ewald Erb, Ewald Erb was a ... [...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] |
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] |
Adolf Endler
Adolf Endler (20 September 1930 – 2 August 2009) was a lyric poet, essayist and prose author who played a central role in subcultural activities that attacked and challenged an outdated model of socialist realism in the German Democratic Republic up until the collapse of communism in the early 1990s. Endler drew attention to himself as the "father of the oppositional literary scene" at Prenzlauer Berg in the eastern part of Berlin. In 2005 he was made a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt. Early life and career A communist as a young man, Endler moved to East Germany in 1955 and studied at the Johannes R. Becher Institute of Literature in Leipzig from 1955–57. An acclaimed poet, he was well respected in the East and West, but at the same time was marginalized and degraded by party functionaries who controlled the fields of cultural practice, conspired to guard their concepts of aesthetics, and went as far as to extend their influence into t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Czechowski
Heinz Czechowski (7 February 1935 – 21 October 2009) was a German poet and dramatist. At the age of ten, Czechowski survived the highly destructive bombing of his birthplace of Dresden. After training in surveying and graphic design, he studied at the Johannes R. Becher Institute of Literature in Leipzig, where he was strongly influenced by Georg Maurer and the Saxon school. His first published poems appeared in 1957 in an issue of ''Neue Deutsche Literatur''. From 1961 to 1965, he worked at the Mitteldeutscher Verlag publishing house in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (; from the 15th to the 17th century: ''Hall in Sachsen''; until the beginning of the 20th century: ''Halle an der Saale'' ; from 1965 to 1995: ''Halle/Saale'') is the largest city of the German state of Saxony-An .... Between 1971 and 1973, he wrote plays for the city of Magdeburg, after which he became a freelance writer. Czechowski produced free translations of the work of foreign poet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Wühr
Paul Wühr (10 July 1927 – 12 July 2016) was a German experimental author. Wühr lived by Lake Trasimeno in Umbria, Italy and wrote for the publisher Hanser-Verlag. Selected works Novels * '' Gegenmünchen'', 1970 * '' Das falsche Buch'', 1983 * '' Der faule Strick'', 1987 * '' Wenn man mich so reden hört'', 1993 * '' Luftstreiche'', 1994 * '' Was ich noch vergessen habe'', 2002 Poems * '' Grüß Gott ihr Mütter ihr Väter ihr Töchter ihr Söhne'', 1976 * '' Rede'', 1979 * ''Sage'', 1988 * '' Salve Res Publica Poetica'', 1997 * '' Venus im Pudel'', 2000 Radio plays * '' Das Experiment'', 1963 * '' Wer kann mir sagen, wer Sheila ist?'', 1964 * '' Die Rechnung'', 1965 * '' Fensterstürze'', 1968 * '' Preislied'', 1971 * '' Soundseeing Metropolis München'', 1986 * '' Faschang Garaus'', 1988 Textbooks * '' So spricht unsereiner'', 1973 (contains texts for the radio plays '' Preislied'', '' So eine Freiheit'', '' Trip Null'', '' Verirrhaus'') Plays * '' Pyra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friederike Mayröcker
Friederike Mayröcker (20 December 1924 – 4 June 2021) was an Austrian writer of poetry and prose, audio plays, children's books and dramatic texts. She experimented with language, and was regarded as an avantgarde poet, and as one of the leading authors in German. Her work, inspired by art, music, literature and everyday life, appeared as "novel and also dense text formations, often described as 'magical'." According to ''The New York Times'', her work was "formally inventive, much of it exploiting the imaginative potential of language to capture the minutiae of daily life, the natural world, love and grief". Life Mayröcker was born in Vienna, the daughter of a teacher and a milliner. Until age 11, she spent the summers regularly in the village Deinzendorf. In World War II, she was drafted as an air force aide, working as a secretary. From 1946 to 1969 Mayröcker was an English teacher at several public schools in Vienna. She started writing poetry at age 15. In 1946, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Kempowski
Walter Kempowski (; 29 April 1929 – 5 October 2007) was a German writer. Kempowski was known for his series of novels called ''German Chronicle'' ("Deutsche Chronik") and the monumental ''Echolot'' ("Sonar"), a collage of autobiographical reports, letters and other documents by contemporary witnesses of the Second World War. Life Childhood (1929–39) Kempowski was born in Rostock. His father, Karl Georg Kempowski, was a shipping company owner and his mother, Margarethe Kempowski, née Collasius, was the daughter of a Hamburg merchant."Walter Kempowski." ''Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors''. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2018. Retrieved via ''Gale In Context: Biography'' database, 19 April 2020. Online version available via Encyclopedia.com'.Childs, David (11 October 2007).. ''The Independent''. Retrieved 19 April 2020. In 1935 Kempowski began attending St. Georg School; in 1939, he transferred to the local high school ("Realgymnasium"). During World War II (1939–45) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dieter Forte
Dieter or dieter may refer to: * A person committed to dieting People Dieter is a German given name (), a short form of Dietrich, from ''theod+ric'' "people ruler", see Theodoric. Given name * Dieter Althaus (born 1958), German politician *Dieter Bohlen (born 1954), German music producer *Dieter Borsche (1909–1982), German actor *Dieter Brummer (1976–2021), Australian actor * Dieter Dengler (1938–2001), American Vietnam War veteran *Dieter Dierks (born 1943), German musician * Dieter Eiselen (born 1996), South African American football player *Dieter Gerhardt (born 1935), Soviet spy *Dieter Hallervorden (born 1935), German comedian * Dieter Thomas Heck (1937–2018), German television presenter, singer and actor *Dieter Helm (1941–2022), German farmer and politician *Dieter Hoeneß (born 1953), German football (soccer) player *Dieter Kühn (born 1956), East German football (soccer) player *Dieter Lüst (born 1956), German physicist * Dieter Meier (born 1945), Swi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jörg Steiner
Jörg or Joerg () is a German name, equivalent to George in English. * Jörg Bergmeister, German race car driver * Jörg Frischmann, German Paralympian athlete * Jörg Haider, Austrian politician * Jörg Andrees Elten (also Swami Satyananda), German journalist and writer, follower of Osho * Jörg Kachelmann (born 1958), Swiss journalist and presenter * Joerg Kalt (1967–2007), Austrian film director and cinematographer * Jörg Meuthen (born 1961), German politician * Jörg Nobis (born 1975), German politician * Jörg Pilawa (born 1965), German television presenter * Joerg Rieger (born 1963), American professor * Jörg Schneider (actor) (1935), Swiss actor See also * *Jörgen (other) *Joerg Peninsula Joerg Peninsula () is a rugged, mountainous peninsula, long in a northeast–southwest direction and from wide, lying between Trail Inlet and Solberg Inlet on the Bowman Coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Its tip is indented by Hondius Inlet. ... of Graham Land, An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literaturpreis Des Kulturkreises Der Deutschen Wirtschaft
Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft is a literary prize of Germany. It was established in 1951. From 2009 to 2016 the prize was awarded in the prose, poetry, drama and translation categories. Since 2017 the award was renamed to Literaturpreis "Text & Sprache". The prize is endowed with €20,000. Winners 1953–2006 * 1953 Heinrich Böll * 1955 Ingeborg Bachmann * 1957 Paul Celan * 1958 Günter Grass * 1967 Thomas Bernhard * 1971 Elias Canetti * 1986 Christoph Ransmayr * 1998 Daniel Kehlmann Daniel Kehlmann (; born 13 January 1975) is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality. 2007–2016 Since 2017 References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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