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Ida-Dehmel-Literaturpreis
Ida-Dehmel-Literaturpreis is a literary prize in Germany. Awarded every three years, it was created by the Societies of female artists and their supporters (''"Gemeinschaften der Künstlerinnen und Kunstförderer e. V."'' / GEDOK) to honour Ida Dehmel. Winners *1968: Hilde Domin *1971: Erika Burkart *1975: Margot Scharpenberg *1977: Rose Ausländer *1980: Ingeborg Drewitz *1983: Barbara Frischmuth *1986: Eva Zeller *1989: Brigitte Kronauer *1992: Sarah Kirsch *1995: Elke Erb *1998: Herta Müller *2001: Helga M. Novak *2004: Kerstin Hensel *2007: Doris Runge *2010: Ulla Hahn *2014: Karla Schneider *2017: Monika Maron Monika Maron (born 3 June 1941 in Berlin) is a German author, formerly of the German Democratic Republic. Biography She moved in 1951 from West to East Berlin with her stepfather, Karl Maron, the GDR Minister of the Interior. She studied theatre ... *2020: Ulrike Draesner External links * German literary awards {{Germany-lit-award-stub ... [...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] |
Doris Runge
Doris Runge (born 15 July 1943 in Carlow) is a German writer. She was the daughter of a manufacturer whose business was expropriated after World War II. Her family moved to Neukirchen in Schleswig-Holstein in 1953, and he attended schools in Oldenburg and Lübeck before following high education in Kiel where she became a teacher. She married the painter Jürgen Runge (1929–1992) and they divorced in 1981. They couple used to live partially in Ibiza during the 1970s. Runge moved back to Germany where she lives in the so-called ''Weiße Haus'' (''White House'') in , Holstein. She organizes there readings with important contemporary authors. Runge has been continuously publishing poetry books since 1981. She has an international standing (translations into Portuguese, American and Czech). Prizes * 1985, Friedrich-Hebbel-Preis for ''Jagdlied'' * 1997, Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis * 1998, Kunstpreis des Landes Schleswig-Holstein * 1998, Poetry Liliencron Lecturer University of ... [...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] |
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of , with a population of almost 84 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Kirsch (poet)
Sarah Kirsch (; 16 April 1935 – 5 May 2013) was a German poet. Biography Sarah Kirsch was originally born Ingrid Bernstein in Limlingerode, Prussian Saxony but had changed her first name to Sarah in order to protest against her father's anti-semitism. She studied biology in Halle and literature at the Johannes R. Becher Institute for Literature in Leipzig. In 1965, she co-wrote a book of poems with writer Rainer Kirsch, to whom she was married for ten years. She protested against East Germany's expulsion of Wolf Biermann in 1976, which led to her exclusion from the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). One year later she left the country herself, nevertheless being critical of the west as well. She is mainly known for her poetry, but she also wrote prose and translated children's books into German. According to '' complete review'', "the great German-language post-war poets were largely East German (or Austrian) born in the mid to late 1930s which included towering figu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monika Maron
Monika Maron (born 3 June 1941 in Berlin) is a German author, formerly of the German Democratic Republic. Biography She moved in 1951 from West to East Berlin with her stepfather, Karl Maron, the GDR Minister of the Interior. She studied theatre and spent time as a directing assistant and as a journalist. In the late 1970s, she began writing full-time in East Berlin. She left the GDR in 1988 with a three-year visa. After living in Hamburg, Germany, until 1992, she returned to a reunited Berlin, where she lives and writes. Her works deal to a large degree with confrontation with the past and explore the threats posed both by memory and isolation. Her prose is sparse, bleak, and lonely, conveying the sensitivity and desperation of her narrators. Her published work exhibited increasingly conservative political views. In October 2020 she announced that her publishing house had cut ties with her. Awards In 1992, she was distinguished with the renowned Kleist Prize, awarded annually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karla Schneider
Karla Schneider (born 14 November 1938 in Dresden) is a German writer. Life After Abitur, Karla Schneider worked in a factory in the GDR for a year, after which she trained as a bookseller. She moved to Federal Republic of Germany in 1979 and lives as a freelance author in Wuppertal. She writes books of children's and youth literature. She also writes books for adults. In 1989 she received the Astrid Lindgren Prize from the Oetinger-Verlag, in 1993 2nd prize in the competition for the Bettina von Arnim Prize and on 16 June 2008 she was awarded the Astrid Lindgren Prize The Astrid Lindgren-priset, or Astrid Lindgren Prize in English, is a Swedish literary award for children's literature named after the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren. The prize was instituted by the publishing house Rabén & Sjögren in 1967 to .... On 16 June 2008, Schneider was awarded the Alex-Wedding-Prize, whose jury included Thomas Rosenlöcher, Klaus Kordon and Gundel Mattenklott. Works * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulla Hahn
Ulla Hahn is a German poet and novelist. Partial bibliography Poetry collections * ''Herz über Kopf'' (1981), * ''Spielende'' (1983), * ''Unerhörte Nähe'' (1988), * ''Freudenfeuer'' (1989), * ''Liebesgedichte'' (1993), * ''Epikurs Garten'' (1995), * ''Galileo und zwei Frauen'' (1997), * ''Bildlich gesprochen'' (1999), * ''Süßapfel rot'' (2003), * ''So offen die Welt'' (2004), Novels * ''Ein Mann im Haus'' (1991), * ''Das verborgene Wort'' (2001), * ''Unscharfe Bilder'' (2003), Awards * 1986 Roswitha Prize * 2018 Hannelore Greve Literature Prize References External links Ulla Hahnin: NRW Literatur im Netz NRW Literatur im Netz is a German internet database with short biographies of persons who have lived or worked in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Westphälische Literaturbüro (Westphalian office for literature) in Unna operates the biggest database ... Living people German women novelists German women poets Year of birth missing (livi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herta Müller
Herta Müller (; born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Nițchidorf (german: Nitzkydorf, link=no), Timiș County in Romania, her native language is German. Since the early 1990s, she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages. Müller is noted for her works depicting the effects of violence, cruelty and terror, usually in the setting of the Socialist Republic of Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceaușescu regime which she has experienced herself. Many of her works are told from the viewpoint of the German minority in Romania and are also a depiction of the modern history of the Germans in the Banat and Transylvania. Her much acclaimed 2009 novel ''The Hunger Angel'' (''Atemschaukel'') portrays the deportation of Romania's German minority to Soviet Gulags during the Soviet occupation of Romania for use as German forced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigitte Kronauer
Brigitte Kronauer (29 December 1940 – 22 July 2019) was a German writer who lived in Hamburg. Her novels, written in the tradition of Jean Paul with artful writing and an ironic undertone, were awarded several prizes, including in 2005 the Georg Büchner Prize, in 2011 the Jean-Paul-Preis and in 2017 the Thomas Mann Prize. Life Kronauer was born in Essen, and grew up with her mother. She studied pedagogy and worked as a teacher in Aachen and Göttingen. She moved to Hamburg in the mid-1970s, where she began her literary work. Her first novel appeared in 1980, ''Frau Mühlenbeck im Gehäus'', published by , which also published all her following works. The novel has autobiographic elements. Its language was unusual in the literature after World War II, with sentences constructed with acrobatic audacity ("von akrobatischer Gewagtheit"). Kronauer named Jean Paul as influential for her work. As in his writing, Kronauer's sentences often contain double-meanings and ironic allu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
