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Johann Heinrich Merck Prize
Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Preis is a literary prize of Hesse awarded by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung since 1964. Since 2013 the prize winner receives €20,000. The award is donated by the Merck Group in memory of the German author and critic Johann Heinrich Merck (1741–1791). Winners *1964 Günter Blöcker *1965 ''not awarded'' *1966 Karl Heinz Ruppel *1967 Werner Weber *1968 Georg Hensel *1969 Erich Heller *1970 Joachim Kaiser *1971 Peter Huchel *1972 Horst Krüger *1973 H. H. Stuckenschmidt *1974 Joachim Günther *1975 Walter Höllerer *1976 Peter Rühmkorf *1977 François Bondy *1978 Karl Heinz Bohrer *1979 Werner Spies *1980 Sebastian Haffner *1981 Hilde Spiel *1982 Albert von Schirnding *1983 Albrecht Schöne *1984 Erwin Chargaff *1985 Sibylle Wirsing *1986 Heinrich Vormweg *1987 Reinhard Baumgart *1988 Ivan Nagel *1989 Lothar Baier *1990 Walter Boehlich *1991 Peter von Matt *1992 *1993 Hans Egon Holthusen *1994 Peter Demetz *1995 Michael Maa ...
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Deutsche Akademie Für Sprache Und Dichtung
The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (in English German Academy for Language and Literature) was founded on 28 August 1949, on the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt. It is seated in Darmstadt, since 1971 in the Glückert House at the Darmstadt Artists' Colony. It is a society of writers and scholars on matters pertaining to German language and literature in the ''Deutsche sprachraum'', or Germanosphere. Conferences * Spring conference at changing locations in Germany and abroad * Autumn conference in Darmstadt Literary awards * Since 1951 it has awarded the Georg Büchner Prize, the most important literary prize in the German language (awarded at autumn conference). * The Sigmund Freud Prize, was instituted in memory of Sigmund Freud in 1964 (awarded at autumn conference). * That same year, the annual Friedrich-Gundolf-Preis was instituted for the promotion of German culture in foreign countries, in memory of Friedrich Gundo ...
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Karl Heinz Bohrer
Karl Heinz Bohrer (26 September 1932 – 4 August 2021) was a German literary scholar and essayist. He worked as chief editor for literature of the daily ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, FAZ'', and became co-publisher and author of the cultural magazine ''Merkur (magazine), Merkur''. He taught at the Bielefeld University for decades, and also at Stanford University, California. His autobiography appeared in two volumes in 2012 and 2017. Bohrer is regarded as a disputative intellectual thinker and critic, reflecting his time. He received notable awards for criticism, German language and literature, including the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize and the Heinrich Mann Prize. For his extensive work, Bohrer was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with Ribbon (2014). Life and work Bohrer was born in Cologne in 1932, Rhine Province, Rhineland, Free State of Prussia, Prussia, Weimar Republic, Germany. He received a doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in 1962 with a dissertation about ...
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Peter Von Matt
Peter von Matt (born 20 May 1937) is a Swiss philologist and author. Life Born in Lucerne, Peter von Matt grew up in Stans in the canton of Nidwalden. He studied Art History as well as German and English studies in Zurich and received a doctorate with Emil Staiger on Franz Grillparzer. In 1970, he received his post doctorate lecturing qualifications with a work on E. T. A. Hoffmann. From 1976 to 2002, von Matt taught at the University of Zurich as a Professor of Newer German Literature. He was a guest professor at Stanford University in 1980 and a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin in 1992/93. Von Matt is a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the Sächsische Akademie der Künste (Saxon Academy of the Arts). He writes regular contributions for the '' Frankfurter Anthologie''. He is married to literary critic Beatrice von Matt-Albrecht and lives with her in Dübendorf near ...
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Walter Boehlich
Walter Boehlich (16 September 1921 – 6 April 2006) was a German journalist, literary critic, literary editor and translator. Life Walter Boehlich was born in Breslau, Silesia, as a son of writer Ernst Boehlich. During the Nazi regime, Boelich was discriminated at school because of his Jewish background. After World War II, he read philology at the University of Bonn and became the assistant of Prof. Ernst Robert Curtius, an expert on Romance studies and literary theory. He worked as literary critic for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. As chief editor at Suhrkamp Verlag, he played a crucial part in making Suhrkamp a leading publishing house of German post-war literature and theory. After he had left Suhrkamp after an argument over editors' participation rights in 1968, Boehlich wrote for the German magazine, '' Kursbuch''. His pamphlet ''Autodafé'' on literature and its socio-historical background was published as a poster supplement ...
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Lothar Baier
Lothar Baier (16 May 1942 – 11 July 2004) was a German author, publisher, translator and co-founder of the Literary periodical Text+Kritik. Baier was born in Karlsruhe. He was accepted as one of the most profound German thinkers of the Francophone World and was recognized with the 1982 Jean Améry Prize for Essayists and with the 2003 Gerrit Engelke Prize. Baier published amongst others in the ''Merkur'', in the ''Kursbuch'' and in the Deutschlandfunk and was for many years the editor of the Die Wochenzeitung (WOZ) in Zürich. On 11 July 2004, Baier committed suicide in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Works *''Über Ror Wolf''. Editor, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1972 *''Französischen Zustände. Berichte und Essays'' (French State. Reports and Essays). Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt 1982. *''Jahrsfrist''. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Verlag 1985 *''Firma Frankreich. Eine Betriebsbesichtigung'' (Company France. A Business Report). Berlin: Wagenbach 1988. *''Gleichheit ...
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Ivan Nagel
Ivan Nagel (28 June 1931 – 9 April 2012) was a German theater scholar, critic and former theater director of Hungarian origin. Life Ivan Nagel was born in Budapest. He came from a Jewish family who fled their home because of the Second World War, and therefore survived the Holocaust. After the war, Nagel wanted to study in Budapest. This was refused to him by the communist rulers since he was a bourgeois. He fled to Switzerland in 1948. In the 1950s Nagel lived and studied as a refugee first in Paris and Zürich then in Frankfurt am Main. In Frankfurt he studied philosophy under Theodor W. Adorno who later helped him to avoid a threatening deportation (as an "undesirable asylum seeker"). After his studies, he worked as a theater critic in Munich and became the chief drama director of the Munich Kammerspiele. In 1972 he was appointed the director of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus (German Play House) in Hamburg and stayed there until 1979. During this time he gathered nume ...
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Reinhard Baumgart
Reinhard is a German, Austrian, Danish, and to a lesser extent Norwegian surname (from Germanic ''ragin'', counsel, and ''hart'', strong), and a spelling variant of Reinhardt. Persons with the given name *Reinhard of Blankenburg (after 1107 – 1123), German bishop *Reinhard Böhler (1945–1995), German sidecarcross racer *Reinhard Bonnke (1940–2019), German evangelist *Rainhard Fendrich (born 1955), Austrian singer *Reinhard Gehlen (1902–1979), German spymaster *Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942), German Nazi leader *Reinhard Mey (born 1942), German singer *Reinhard Mohn (1921–2009), German media tycoon *Reinhard Odendaal (born 1980), South African award-winning winemaker *Reinhard Scheer (1863–1928), German admiral *Reinhard Selten (1930–2016), German economist *Reinhard Strohm (born 1942), German musicologist *Reinhard Stupperich (born 1951), German classical archaeologist *Reinhard Wendemuth (born 1948), German rower Persons with the surname *Blaire Reinhard ...
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Heinrich Vormweg
Heinrich may refer to: People * Heinrich (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) * Heinrich (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *Hetty (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) Places * Heinrich (crater), a lunar crater * Heinrich-Hertz-Turm, a telecommunication tower and landmark of Hamburg, Germany Other uses * Heinrich event, a climatic event during the last ice age * Heinrich (card game), a north German card game * Heinrich (farmer), participant in the German TV show a ''Farmer Wants a Wife'' * Heinrich Greif Prize, an award of the former East German government * Heinrich Heine Prize, the name of two different awards * Heinrich Mann Prize, a literary award given by the Berlin Academy of Art * Heinrich Tessenow Medal, an architecture prize established in 1963 * Heinrich Wieland Prize, an annual award in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry and physiology * Heinrich, known as Haida in Ja ...
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Sibylle Wirsing
Sibylle is a given name. It may refer to: *Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1542–1580), eldest surviving daughter of Count Philipp IV and Countess Eleonore of Fürstenberg *Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia (1586–1659), Electress of Saxony as the spouse of John George I, Elector of Saxony *Duchess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg (1675–1733), Margravine of Baden-Baden *Magdalene Sibylle of Holstein-Gottorp (1631–1719), Duchess of Hostein-Gottorp by birth and by marriage Duchess of Mecklenburg-Güstrow *Magdalena Sibylle of Saxe-Weissenfels (1648–1681), German noblewoman *Magdalene Sibylle of Saxe-Weissenfels (1673–1726), German noblewoman *Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony (1617–1668), Princess of Denmark from 1634 to 1647 as the wife of Prince-Elect Christian of Denmark, and the Duchess consort of Saxe-Altenburg as the wife of Frederick Wilhelm II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg *Margravine Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1612–1687), Electress of Saxony from 1656 to 1680 ...
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Erwin Chargaff
Erwin Chargaff (11 August 1905 – 20 June 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist, writer, Bucovinian Jew who emigrated to the United States during the Nazi Germany, Nazi era, and professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school. He wrote a well-reviewed autobiography, ''Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature''. Early life Chargaff was born on 11 August 1905 to a Jewish family in Czernowitz, Duchy of Bukovina, Austria-Hungary, which is now Chernivtsi, Ukraine. At the outbreak of World War I, his family moved to Vienna, where he attended the Maximiliansgymnasium (now the Gymnasium Wasagasse). He then went on to the TU Wien, Vienna College of Technology (''Technische Hochschule Wien'') where he met his future wife Vera Broido. From 1924 to 1928, Chargaff studied chemistry in Vienna, and earned a Doctor of Philosophy, doctorate working under the direction of Fritz Feigl. He married Vera Broido in 1928. Chargaff had one son, Thomas Cha ...
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Albrecht Schöne
Albrecht Schöne (born 17 July 1925) is a German Germanist. From 1960 to 1990 he was a professor of German philology at the University of Göttingen. Career Schöne was born on 17 July 1925 in Barby an der Elbe. After graduating from secondary school he immediately performed his military service. During World War II he was made prisoner of war. Schöne subsequently worked as a lumberjack until 1947. From 1947 to 1951 he studied German literature, history, philosophy, theology and psychiatry at the universities of Freiburg, Basel, Göttingen and Münster. In 1952 Schöne took his Ph.D. from the University of Münster. In 1953 he took a position as research assistant at the Department of German Philology at the University of Göttingen. He performed his habilitation in 1957. In 1958 he became associate professor of modern German philology at the University of Münster. In 1960 he became full professor of German philology. He was President of the between 1980 and 1985. He held visit ...
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Albert Von Schirnding
Albert may refer to: Companies * Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic * Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands * Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia * Albert Productions, a record label * Albert Computers, Inc., a computer manufacturer in the 1980s Entertainment * ''Albert'' (1985 film), a Czechoslovak film directed by František Vláčil * ''Albert'' (2015 film), a film by Karsten Kiilerich * ''Albert'' (2016 film), an American TV movie * ''Albert'' (Ed Hall album), 1988 * "Albert" (short story), by Leo Tolstoy * Albert (comics), a character in Marvel Comics * Albert (''Discworld''), a character in Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld'' series * Albert, a character in Dario Argento's 1977 film ''Suspiria'' Military * Battle of Albert (1914), a WWI battle at Albert, Somme, France * Battle of Albert (1916), a WWI battle at Albert, Somme, France * Battle of Albert (1918), a WWI battle at Albert, Somme, France People * Alber ...
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