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Horst-Bienek-Preis Für Lyrik
The Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry () is a German literary prize named after novelist and poet Horst Bienek. It was established in 1991 and is awarded by the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. It is awarded every two years. Recipients *1991: John Ashbery, Förderpreis: Journal of Literature ''Neue Sirene'' *1992: Tomas Tranströmer, Förderpreis: Manfred Peter Hein *1993: Robert Creeley and Walter Höllerer *1994: Seamus Heaney *1995: Johannes Kühn, Förderpreis: Heiderhoff Verlag *1996: Ronald Stuart Thomas, Förderpreis: Kevin Perryman *1997: Oskar Pastior, Förderpreis: Toni Pongratz *1998: Inger Christensen, Förderpreis: Marcel Beyer *1999: Wulf Kirsten, Förderpreis: Amanda Aizpuriete *2000: Philippe Jaccottet, Förderpreis: Stevan Tontić *2001: Michael Hamburger *2002: Adam Zagajewski, Förderpreis: Urs Engeler *2003: Charles Simic, Förderpreis: Bernhard Albers *2004: ''no award'' *2005: Alfred Kolleritsch, Förderpreis: Anja Utler *2007: Yves Bonnefoy, Friedhelm Kemp; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horst Bienek
Horst Bienek (May 7, 1930 in Gleiwitz – December 7, 1990 in Munich) was a German novelist and poet. Life Born in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Gliwice, Poland), Bienek was forced to leave there in 1945, when Germans were expelled from Silesia. He resettled in the eastern part of Germany. For a time, he was a student of Bertolt Brecht. In 1951, he was arrested by NKVD and sentenced in a show trial to 25 years of labour for "anti-Soviet incitement" and alleged espionage on behalf of the United States, and sent to a Gulag concentration camp in Vorkuta. When he was released as the result of an amnesty in 1955, he settled in West Germany. Much of his writing addressed the theme of his uprooting from his Upper Silesian homeland Although he was homosexual, his autobiographical writings never discussed openly his own homosexuality, and his novels only on occasion allude gently to homosexual attraction. Bienek died in Munich in 1990 from AIDS. Work Bienek was the winn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Jaccottet
Philippe Jaccottet (; 30 June 1925 – 24 February 2021) was a Swiss Francophone poet and translator. Life and work After completing his studies in Lausanne, he lived for several years in Paris. In 1953, he moved to the town of Grignan in Provence. He has translated numerous authors and poets into French, including Goethe, Hölderlin, Mann, Mandelstam, Góngora, Leopardi, Musil, Rilke, Homer and Ungaretti. He was awarded the German international Petrarca-Preis in 1988 for his poetry. In 2014, Philippe Jaccottet became the fifteenth living author to be published in the prestigious ''Bibliothèque de la Pléiade''. After Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Blaise Cendrars and Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, he was the fourth Swiss author to be published in the ''Bibliothèque de la Pléiade''. Jaccottet died in Grignan, France, in February 2021 at the age of 95. Honours * 1958 Prix des écrivains vaudois * 1966 Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung * 1981 Prix Gottfried Keller * 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dagmar Nick
Dagmar may refer to: People * Dagmar (given name), a feminine Scandinavian and German given name * Berthe Dagmar (1884–1934), French film actress * Dagmar (actress) (1921–2001), main stage name of American actress Virginia Ruth Egnor * Dagmar (Puerto Rican entertainer) (born 1955), Puerto Rican entertainer Dagmar Rivera Places * County of Dagmar, Queensland, Australia * Dagmar, Montana, United States, an unincorporated community * Dagmar Ski Resort in Uxbridge, Ontario Other uses * 1669 Dagmar (1934 RS), a main-belt asteroid * Cyclone Dagmar, which caused severe damage in Norway in 2011 * Dagmar (automobile), sports version of the Crawford automobile * Dagmar bumpers, a slang term for conical styling elements in 1950s automobile bumpers and grilles * DAGMAR marketing, an advertising model * ''Dagmar'' (novel), a novel by Zlatko Topčić * The Dagmar, a fictional public house on the BBC Soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Queen Dagmar, Bean's biological mother in the televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedhelm Kemp
Friedhelm is a name of Germanic origin. It may refer to: *Friedhelm Busse (1929–2008), German national socialist politician and activist * Friedhelm Döhl (born 1936), German composer and professor of music * Friedhelm Eronat (born 1953), Geneva-based millionaire business leader in oil trading, exploration and production *Friedhelm Funkel (born 1953), German football manager and former player *Friedhelm Haebermann (born 1946), former German football player and manager * Friedhelm Hardy (1943–2004), Professor of Indian Religions, teaching at King's College London *Friedhelm Hengsbach, professor emeritus for Christian social ethics *Friedhelm Konietzka (1938–2012), German football striker and manager *Friedhelm Sack Friedhelm Ferdinand Sack (born 30 May 1956 in Mariental) is a Namibian sport shooter. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics, 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπι ... (born 1956), N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Bonnefoy
Yves Jean Bonnefoy (24 June 1923, Tours – 1 July 2016 Paris) was a French poet and art historian. He also published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French. He was professor at the Collège de France from 1981 to 1993 and is the author of several works on art, art history, and artists including Miró and Giacometti, and a monograph on Paris-based Iranian artist Farhad Ostovani. ''The Encyclopædia Britannica'' states that Bonnefoy was ″perhaps the most important French poet of the latter half of the 20th century.″The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica (updated 3 July 2016) Life and career Bonnefoy was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, the son of Marius Elie Bonnefoy, a railroad worker, and Hélène Maury, a teacher. He studied mathematics and philosophy at the Universities of Poitiers and the Sorbonne in Paris. After the Second World War he travelled in Europe and the United States and studied art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anja Utler
Aanya, Anya or Anja is a given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa .... The names are feminine in most cultures especially Indian, and unisex in several African and European countries. Origins and variant forms * Aanya or Anya is an languages of India, Indian name that means inexhaustible, limitless and resurrection. It is of Sanskrit origin. * Aanya or Anya in Hebrew means favoured by God. *Anya (Аня) is a Russian language, Russian diminutive of Anna (name), Anna. *Ania is the spelling in Polish language, Polish, which is also a diminutive of Anna. *The spelling Anja is common in Croatian language, Croatian, Norwegian language, Norwegian, Danish language, Danish, German language, German, Swedish language, Swedish, Finnish language, Finnish, Dutch language, Dutch, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Kolleritsch
Alfred Kolleritsch (16 February 1931 – 29 May 2020) was an Austrian journalist, poet and philosopher. He was born in Eichfeld, Austria. He was the founder of the literary magazine '. He was the President of the , a cultural center in Graz. He contributes to the Grazer Autorenversammlung. He won the Petrarca-Preis in 1978, and was since 2010 part of the jury. Kolleritsch died on 29 May 2020 in Graz, age 89. See also *Austrian literature
Austrian literature () is mostly written in German, and is closely connected with German literature.
Origin and background
From the 19th century onward, Austria was the home of novelists a ...
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Rimbaud Verlag
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (, ; 20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism. Born in Charleville, he started writing at a very young age and excelled as a student, but abandoned his formal education in his teenage years to run away to Paris amidst the Franco-Prussian War. During his late adolescence and early adulthood, he produced the bulk of his literary output. Rimbaud completely stopped writing literature at age 20 after assembling his last major work, '' Illuminations''. Rimbaud was a libertine and a restless soul, having engaged in a hectic, sometimes violent romantic relationship with fellow poet Paul Verlaine, which lasted nearly two years. After his retirement as a writer, he traveled extensively on three continents as a merchant and explorer until his death from cancer just after his thirty-seventh birthday. As a poet, Rimbaud is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Simic
Dušan Simić ( sr-cyr, Душан Симић, ; born May 9, 1938), known as Charles Simic, is a Serbian American poet and former co-poetry editor of the ''Paris Review''. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for ''The World Doesn't End'', and was a finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for ''Selected Poems, 1963–1983'' and in 1987 for ''Unending Blues''. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007. Biography Early years Dušan Simić was born in Belgrade. In his early childhood, during World War II, he and his family were forced to evacuate their home several times to escape indiscriminate bombing of Belgrade. Growing up as a child in war-torn Europe shaped much of his world-view, Simic states. In an interview from the ''Cortland Review'' he said, "Being one of the millions of displaced persons made an impression on me. In addition to my own little story of bad luck, I heard plenty of others. I'm still am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urs Engeler
Urs (from ''‘Urs'') or ''Urus'' (literal meaning wedding), is the death anniversary of a Sufi saint, usually held at the saint's dargah (shrine or tomb). In most Sufi orders such as Naqshbandiyyah, Suhrawardiyya, Chishtiyya, Qadiriyya, etc. the concept of Urs exists and is celebrated with enthusiasm. The devotees refer to their saints as lovers of God, the beloved. Urs rituals are generally performed by the custodians of the shrine or the existing Shaikh of the silsila. The celebration of Urs ranges from Hamd to Naat and in many cases includes the singing of religious music such as qawwali. The celebration also features food samples, bazaar, and various kinds of shops. The Urs of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti at Dargah Sharif in Ajmer attracts more than 400,000 devotees each year and is regarded as one of the most famous urs festivals around the world. See also * Erwadi * Tirupparankunram * Manamadurai * Pir Mangho Urs * Urs (Ajmer) * Madurai Maqbara * Mela Chir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
