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Joseph-Breitbach-Preis
Joseph-Breitbach-Preis (Joseph Breitbach Prize) is a literary prize awarded by the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz (Academy of Sciences and Literature of Mainz), in Germany and the Joseph Breitbach Foundation. Established in 1998, the prize is worth 50,000 euros and is awarded annually in Koblenz, birthplace of writer Joseph Breitbach (1903–1980), for whom the prize is named. Winners * 1998: Hans Boesch, Friedhelm Kemp, Brigitte Kronauer * 1999: Reinhard Jirgl, Wolf Lepenies, Rainer Malkowski * 2000: Ilse Aichinger, W. G. Sebald, Markus Werner * 2001: Thomas Hürlimann, Ingo Schulze, * 2002: Elazar Benyoëtz, Erika Burkart, Robert Menasse * 2003: Christoph Meckel, Herta Müller, Harald Weinrich * 2004: Raoul Schrott * 2005: Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt * 2006: Wulf Kirsten * 2007: Friedrich Christian Delius * 2008: Marcel Beyer * 2009: Ursula Krechel * 2010: Michael Krüger * 2011: Hans Joachim Schädlich * 2012: Kurt Flasch * 2013: Jenny Erpenbec ... [...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-Stipend *2008 Rheingau Literatur Preis for ''Shanghai fern von wo'' *2009 Jeanette Schocken Preis – Bremerhavener Bürgerpreis für Literatur *2009 Deutscher Kritikerpreis *2009 Joseph-Breitbach-Preis *2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Christian Delius
Friedrich Christian Delius (13 February 1943 – 30 May 2022), also known by his pen name F.C. Delius, was a German novelist. He wrote books about historic events, such as the 1954 FIFA World Cup, and RAF terrorism. Four of his novels were translated into English, including ''The Pears of Ribbeck'' and ''Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman''. His awards include the Georg Büchner Prize of 2011. Biography Delius was born in Rome, where his father was pastor of the German Protestant Church. He grew up in Wehrda (since 1971 among the constituent communities of Haunetal) and Korbach in the state of Hesse. He studied German literature at the Free University and the Technical University in Berlin, and in London. He published poetry beginning at age 18, and appeared at the last meetings of the Gruppe 47 at age 21, as the second-youngest participant. He first worked in publishing firms such as Klaus Wagenbach and . The Siemens group went to court against the 1972 documentar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akademie Der Wissenschaften Und Der Literatur
The Academy of Sciences and Literature (german: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, AdW Mainz) is a scientific academy in Mainz, Germany. It was established in 1949 on an initiative of Alfred Döblin. The academy's goal is to support science and literature, and in doing so to help preserve and promote culture. Members The academy has members in three classes: mathematics and natural sciences, humanities and social sciences, literature and music. Each class has up to 50 full and 50 corresponding members. Notable members have included Niels Bohr, Otto Hahn, Konrad Lorenz, Halldór Laxness, Heinrich Böll, and Jean-Marie Lehn. Awards and Foundations Awards The Academy grants several awards: Academy Prize of Rhineland-Palatinate* ttps://www.adwmainz.de/en/alfred-doeblin-medal.html Alfred Döblin MedalHans Gàl-Prize* Joseph Breitbach Prize Leibniz Medal* Robert Schumann Prize for Poetry and Music The Robert Schumann Prize for Poetry and Music (germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt
Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt (born 2 May 1928) is a French writer and translator of German origin. Biography Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt was born in Reinbek near Hamburg, into a Jewish family of magistrates converted to Protestantism. His father was an adviser to the Hamburg Court of Appeal until 1933. He was then deported to Theresienstadt where he served as Protestant pastor of "Protestant Jews" deported because of their origin. Georges-Arthur fled Germany in 1938. He took refuge in Italy with his brother, then in France, in a boarding school in Megève. From 1943 to September 1944, he was hidden in Haute-Savoie among farmers, particularly François and Olga Allard, who were honoured on August 6, 2012 as Righteous Among the Nations. Goldschmidt obtained French nationality in 1949. He was a professor (" agrégé d’allemand") until 1992. He taught at Lycée Paul Eluard for 19 years. A writer and essayist, Goldschmidt chose French as a language of expression and writing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Burkart
Erika Burkart (8 February 1922, Aarau – 14 April 2010) was a Swiss writer and poet. She was the recipient of many awards, among them the Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis, the Gottfried-Keller-Preis, the Joseph-Breitbach-Preis, and the Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart-Preis. She was born in Aarau in 1922 and died in Muri in 2010. Erika Burkart's literary estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern. Works Poetry books * ''Der dunkle Vogel'', Tschudy Verlag, St. Gallen 1953 * ''Sterngefährten'', Tschudy Verlag, St. Gallen 1955 * ''Bann und Flug'', Tschudy Verlag, St. Gallen 1956 * ''Geist der Fluren'', Tschudy Verlag, St. Gallen 1958 * ''Die gerettete Erde'', Tschudy Verlag, St. Gallen 1960 * ''Mit den Augen der Kore'', Tschudy Verlag, St. Gallen 1962 * ''Ich lebe'', Artemis Verlag, Zurich 1964 * ''Die weichenden Ufer'', Artemis Verlag, Zurich 1967 * ''Fernkristall. Ausgewählte Gedichte'', Verlag an der Hartnau, Tobel (TG) 1972 * ''Die Transparenz der Scherben'', Benziger Ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingo Schulze
Ingo Schulze (born 15 December 1962) is a German writer born in Dresden in former East Germany. He studied classical philology at the University of Jena for five years, and, until German reunification, was an assistant director (dramatic arts advisor) at the State Theatre in Altenburg 45 km south of Leipzig for two years. After sleeping through the events of the night of 9 November 1989, Schulze started a newspaper with friends. He was encouraged to write. Schulze spent six months in St Petersburg which became the basis for his debut collection of short stories ''33 Moments of Happiness'' (1995). Schulze has won a number of awards for his novels and stories, which have been translated into twenty languages, among them into English by John E. Woods. In 2007, he was awarded the Thüringer Literaturpreis. In 2013 he was awarded the Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis. Life Schulze, the son of a physicist and a doctor, grew up with his mother after his parents' divorce. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raoul Schrott
Raoul Schrott (born 17 January 1964) is an Austrian poet, writer, literary critic, translator and broadcast personality. Schrott was raised in Tunis where his father served as an Austrian sales representative. He attended the universities of Norwich, Paris, Berlin and Innsbruck. He completed a thesis on "Dada 1921 – 1922 in Tirol". He translated Homer's writings into colloquial German. In 2008 he was appointed Visiting professor by the Free University Berlin. In 2019 he was a contributor to ''A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West'' (Gingko Library). He lives in Austria. Awards *Award of the Country of Carinthia at the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Competition, 1994 * Leonce-und-Lena-Preis 1995 * Rauris Literature Prize, 1996 *Sponsorship award of the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize 1996 *Berlin Literary Award, 1996 *Peter-Huchel-Preis, 1999 * Mainzer Stadtschreiber, 2004 *Joseph-Breitbach-Preis, 2004 * Prize of the Guntram and Irene Rinke Foundation, 2007 Works (in Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Werner
Markus Werner (; 27 December 1944 – 3 July 2016) was a Swiss writer, known as the author of the novels '' Zündels Abgang'' (''Zündel’s Exit''), ''Am Hang'' ('' On the Edge''), and ''Die kalte Schulter'' (''Cold Shoulder''). Life Markus Werner was born in Eschlikon, in the canton of Thurgau. In 1948 the family moved to Thayngen (canton of Schaffhausen) where Werner finished school and passed the general qualification for university entrance in 1965. At the university of Zürich he studied German, philosophy and psychology. In 1974 he completed a doctorate on Max Frisch, whose writing has been an important influence on Werner. From 1975 to 1985, he worked as a teacher, and from 1985 to 1990 as an assistant professor at the ''Kantonsschule'' (high school) in Schaffhausen. He dedicated himself exclusively to writing after 1990. In 2002, he was elected member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt. Werner lived in Schaffhausen until his death in 2016. Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilse Aichinger
Ilse Aichinger (1 November 1921 – 11 November 2016) was an Austrian writer known for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry."Ilse Aichinger" '''' She wrote poems, short stories and radio plays, and won multiple European literary prizes. Early life Aichinger was born in 1921 in , along with her twin sister, , to Berta, a doctor of Jewish ethnicity, and Ludwig, a teacher. As her mother's family was[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reinhard Jirgl
Reinhard Jirgl (born 16 January 1953 in East-Berlin) is a German writer. Biography Jirgl was born in Berlin-Friedrichshain. He became a skilled worker for electromechanics. Then he completed a degree in electronics at Humboldt University, Berlin. He made first attempts at prose during his studies in the early 1970s. From 1975 he worked as an engineer at the Academy of Sciences. He gave up his profession in 1978 to devote more time to writing. He worked as a lighting and service technician at the Volksbühne in Berlin. After submitting his first novel ''Mutter Vater Roman'' to a Berlin publishing house in 1985, he was accused of a "non-Marxist conception of history". The publication of the novel was refused. Until 1989, none of his manuscripts were published. Since 2009 he has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature. and he is member of the PEN Centre Germany. In 2010 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize by the German Academy for Language and Literature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf Lepenies
Wolf Lepenies (born 11 January 1941) is a German sociologist, political scientist, and author. Biography Lepenies was born near Allenstein, East Prussia (now Olsztyn, Poland), in 1945 his family fled from the Soviet Army's assault on East Prussia to Schleswig-Holstein and from there to North Rhine-Westfalia. He eventually grew up in Koblenz. He studied sociology and philosophy at the University of Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia and graduated with a promotion in 1967. In 1970 he habilitated at the Free University of Berlin. He traveled abroad, first to the Maison des sciences de l’homme in Paris, then to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 1984 he joined the faculty of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin before becoming a professor of sociology at the Free University of Berlin. He frequently returned to Princeton to conduct research. In 1986 he succeeded Peter Wapnewski as president of the Wissenschaftskolleg. In 2001 he was succeeded by Dieter Grimm. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Meckel
Christoph Meckel (12 June 1935 – 29 January 2020) was a German author and graphic artist. He received awards for his works which connect illustrations with the written text, sometimes texts by others. Life Born in Berlin, Meckel spent his youth there, in Erfurt and in Freiburg im Breisgau, where he attended Gymnasium. In 1954/55 he studied graphic art at the Academy of Art in Freiburg im Breisgau, and in 1956 at the Academy of Art in München. Since 1956 he worked as both an author and graphic artist. His first poem appeared that year. He traveled extensively through Europe, Africa, and America and lived in Oetingen in Markgräflerland, in Berlin, in southern France, and in Tuscany. His graphic work has appeared in numerous exhibitions. Until his withdrawal in 1997, Meckel was a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was a member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz and the Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
