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Jean-Paul-Preis
Jean-Paul-Preis is a Bavarian literary prize, awarded bi-annually by the Free State of Bavaria. It is named in honour of the German Romantic writer Jean Paul. The prize money is €15,000. Recipients *1983 Hans Egon Holthusen *1985 Friedrich Dürrenmatt *1987 Botho Strauß *1989 Horst Bienek *1991 Hermann Lenz *1993 Gertrud Fussenegger *1995 Siegfried Lenz *1997 Günter de Bruyn *1999 Herbert Rosendorfer *2001 Gerhard Polt *2003 Thomas Hürlimann *2005 Sarah Kirsch *2007 Uwe Dick *2009 Eckhard Henscheid *2011 Brigitte Kronauer *2013 Petra Morsbach *2015 Gerhard Roth *2017 Alexander Kluge [...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] |
Petra Morsbach
Petra Morsbach (born 1 June 1956) is a German author. Life and career Morsbach was born in Zürich, but grew up in Germany. She studied at Munich University and Leningrad Theater Academy. Morsbach's first novel, ''Plötzlich ist es Abend'' (''Suddenly it's Evening''), was published in 1995 and follows the life of a Russian woman whose family was prosecuted by Joseph Stalin. ''Opernroman'', her second novel, was published in 1998 and is based on Morsbach's experience working in theatre for a decade. It is set in the fictional town of Neustadt am Rhein and centers around the local opera company throughout a season. Her novel ''Gottesdiener'' (''God's Servant'') was published in 2004 and follows the life of an elderly Catholic priest. She won the Jean-Paul-Preis with her 2013 book, ''Dichterliebe'' which is centered around a poet who is going through an existential crisis. Her novel, ''Justizpalast'' (''Palace of Justice'') was published in 2017 and won the Wilhelm Raabe Litera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botho Strauß
Botho Strauß (; born 2 December 1944) is a German playwright, novelist and essayist. Biography Botho Strauß's father was a chemist. After finishing his secondary education, Strauß studied German, History of the Theatre and Sociology in Cologne and Munich, but never finished his dissertation on ''Thomas Mann und das Theater''. During his studies, he worked as an extra at the Munich Kammerspiele. From 1967 to 1970, he was a critic and editorial journalist for the journal ''Theater heute'' (''Theater Today''). Between 1970 and 1975, he worked as a dramaturgical assistant to Peter Stein at the West Berlin Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer. After his first attempt as a writer, a Gorky adaptation for the screen, he decided to live and work as a writer. Strauß had his first breakthrough as a dramatist with the 1977 ''Trilogie des Wiedersehens'', five years after the publication of his first work. In 1984 he published his important work '' Der Junge Mann'' (''The Young Man'', tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrud Fussenegger
Gertrud Fussenegger (8 May 1912 – 19 March 2009) was an Austrian writer and a prolific author, especially of historical novels. Many commentators felt that her reputation never entirely escaped from the shadow cast by her enthusiasm, as a young woman, for National Socialism. Life Provenance and early years Gertrud Anna Fussenegger was born in Pilsen, a flourishing manufacturing city in Bohemia which at that time was a Crown land of the Austrian Empire. She came from a military family. Emil Fussenegger, her father, was an Imperial and Royal army officer originally from Vorarlberg. Her mother, born Karoline Hässler, was from Bohemia. She grew up in Neu Sandez (then in Galicia), Dornbirn (Vorarlberg) and Telfs ( North Tirol). She enrolled at the Mädchen-Realgymnasium (girls' secondary school) in Innsbruck in 1923. After her mother died in 1926 she moved back to Pilsen – by now part of Czechoslovakia – where she lived with her grandparents. It was at the "Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Lenz
Hermann Karl Lenz (26 February 1913 – 12 May 1998) was a German writer of poetry, stories, and novels. A major part of his work is a series of nine semi-autobiographical novels centring on his alter ego "Eugen Rapp", a cycle that is also known as the ''Schwäbische Chronik'' ("Swabian Chronicle"). Lenz had been a German Prisoner of war, POW in U.S. custody during World War II. He received over 15 literary awards. Archives of his writings include some letters exchanged with his fellow writers Paul Celan and Peter Handke and others (see below: "#Correspondence, Correspondence"). Life and work Lenz, son of art teacher Hermann Friedrich Lenz and his wife Elise, grew up until his eleventh year in Künzelsau and then in Stuttgart. After graduation and failed theology studies in Tübingen, he began, in 1933, to study Art history, philosophy, Archaeology and Germanic studies in Heidelberg and to study from 1937 in Munich. After early dramatic reading impressions (Eduard Moerike, Mà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total land area of Germany. With over 13 million inhabitants, it is second in population only to North Rhine-Westphalia, but due to its large size its population density is below the German average. Bavaria's main cities are Munich (its capital and largest city and also the third largest city in Germany), Nuremberg, and Augsburg. The history of Bavaria includes its earliest settlement by Iron Age Celtic tribes, followed by the conquests of the Roman Empire in the 1st century BC, when the territory was incorporated into the provinces of Raetia and Noricum. It became the Duchy of Bavaria (a stem duchy) in the 6th century AD following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. It was later incorporated into the Holy Roman Empire, became an ind ... [...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] |
Ursula Krechel
Ursula Krechel (born 4 December 1947) is a German writer. Krechel was born in Trier. From 1966 to 1972 she studied German studies, theatre, and art history at the University of Cologne. From 1969 to 1972, she worked as a drama advisor in Dortmund. After 1972, she lived in Frankfurt am Main for many years and now works in Berlin as a writer, focusing on Lyric poetry, but also writing prose, drama, and radio drama. Works List obtained from Literatur Port. Poetry * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Novels and Stories * * * * * * Essays and Criticism * * * * Plays * * * * * * Awards *1980 Arbeitsstipendium for Berlin artists *1994 Internationaler Eifel-Literatur-Preis *1994 Martha-Saalfeld-Förderpreis *1997 *2006 Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis, Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Stipend *2008 Rheingau Literatur Preis for ''Shanghai fern von wo'' *2009 Jeanette-Schocken-Preis, Jeanette Schocken Preis – Bremerhavener Bürgerpreis für Literatur *2009 Deutscher Krit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Kluge
Alexander Kluge (born 14 February 1932) is a German author, philosopher, academic and film director. Early life, education and early career Kluge was born in Halberstadt, Province of Saxony (now Saxony-Anhalt), Germany. After growing up during World War II, he studied history, law and music at the University of Marburg Germany, and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. He received his doctorate in law in 1956. While studying in Frankfurt, Kluge befriended the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, who was teaching at the Institute for Social Research, or Frankfurt School. Kluge served as a legal counsel for the Institute, and began writing his earliest stories during this period. At Adorno's suggestion, he also began to investigate filmmaking, and in 1958, Adorno introduced him to German filmmaker Fritz Lang, for whom Kluge worked as an assistant on the making of '' The Tiger of Eschnapur''. Cinematic works Kluge directed his first film in 1960, '' B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Roth
Gerhard Roth (24 June 1942 – 8 February 2022) was an Austrian writer. Life Roth was born in Graz. The son of a medical practitioner, Roth, too, originally wanted to study medicine himself, but soon turned his attention to literature. Initially, he earned his living as a computer programmer. He was a freelance writer from 1976. From 1973 to 1978, he was member of the Grazer Autorenversammlung before he moved to Hamburg in 1979. Since 1986, he divided his time between Vienna and Styria. He won many literature prizes, among which are the literature prize of Styria (1976), the Alfred Döblin Prize (1983), and the Bruno-Kreisky-Prize (2002). In 1995, he was awarded the Golden Romy for his screenplay of ''Schnellschuss''. He was also the recipient of the 2012 Jakob-Wassermann-Literaturpreis. Roth died on 8 February 2022, at the age of 79. Work Roth referred to himself as "someone obsessed with writing in the best sense." In the focus is the hero, struggling in vain, to whom the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eckhard Henscheid
Ekkehard (and Eckardt, Eckard, Eckart, Eckhardt, Ekkehart) is a German given name. It is composed of the elements ''ekke'' "edge, blade; sword" and ''hart'' "brave; hardy". Variant forms include Eckard, Eckhard, Eckhart (other), Eckhart, Eckart. The Old English, Anglo-Saxon form of the name was ''Ecgheard'', possibly attested in the toponym Eggerton. Middle Ages It was the name of five monks of the Abbey of Saint Gall from the tenth to the thirteenth century: *Ekkehard I (died 973) *Ekkehard II (died 990) *Ekkehard III *Ekkehard IV (died c. 1056) *Ekkehard V (died c. 1220) It was also the name of two Margraves of Meissen: *Eckard I, Margrave of Meissen, Eckard I (died 1002) *Eckard II, Margrave of Meissen, Eckard II (died 1046) Other notable people with that given name include: *Ekkehard of Huysburg (died 1084), abbot of Huysburg Abbey *Ekkehard of Aura (died 1126), chronicler and abbot of Aura Abbey *Meister Eckhart (died c. 1327), philosopher and mystic *Eckhard Christ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uwe Dick
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Uwe or UWE may refer to * Uwe (given name) * University of the West of England, Bristol * UML-based web engineering * University Würzburg's Experimental miniaturized satellites for space research UWE-1 and UWE-2 * Uwe - Wreck in Blankenese Blankenese () is a suburban quarter in the borough of Altona in the western part of Hamburg, Germany; until 1938 it was an independent municipality in Holstein. It is located on the right bank of the Elbe river. With a population of 13,637 as of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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