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Immermann-Preis
Immermann-Preis was a literary prize of Germany. List of laureates 'Old' Immermann-Preis 1936–43(?) * 1936: Albert Bauer (writer), Albert Bauer, Hermann Stahl * 1942: Wilhelm Schäfer 'New' Immermann-Preis past 1947 * 1948: Emil Barth (writer), Emil Barth * 1953: Georg Britting; Sponsorship award: Otto Heinrich Kühner * 1954: Ernst Penzoldt * 1955: Ilse Aichinger * 1956: Sponsorship award: Rolf Schroers (for ''Jakob und die Sehnsucht'') * 1957: Marie Luise Kaschnitz; Sponsorship award: Otto Heinrich Kühner * 1958: Wolfdietrich Schnurre (Berlin); Sponsorship award: Hans Peter Keller (Büttgen bei Neuss) * 1959: Gerd Gaiser (Reutlingen); Sponsorship award: Christoph Meckel (St. Gallen) * 1960: Eckart Peterich * 1961: Sponsorship award: Heinrich Schirmbeck * 1962: Sigismund von Radecki * 1965: Ernst Jünger; Sponsorship award: Astrid Gehlhoff-Claes * 1967: Wolfgang Koeppen; Sponsorship award: Johannes Poethen German literary awards {{Germany-lit-award-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfdietrich Schnurre
Wolfdietrich Schnurre (22 August 19209 June 1989) was a German writer. Best known for his short stories, he also wrote tales, diaries, poems, radio plays, and children's books. Born in Frankfurt am Main, and later raised in Berlin-Weißensee, he grew up in a lower-middle class family and did not receive a post-secondary education. He served in Nazi Germany's army from 1939 until 1945, when he escaped from a prisoner camp after having been arrested for desertion. He was briefly imprisoned by British troops; after his release he returned to Germany in 1946 and began to write commercially. Schnurre's experiences during the Second World War informed the themes of his writings, which often discuss guilt and moral responsibility; though influenced by his socialist political views, his works aim at ethical activation of the reader and not political activism. He is sometimes considered a representative of the rubble literature movement, a short period in German literary history durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
