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Kunstpreis Rheinland-Pfalz
The Kunstpreis Rheinland-Pfalz is a prize awarded annually by the German state of Rheinland-Pfalz for outstanding achievement in the arts and alternates between the areas of visual arts, music, theatre, performing arts, film, and literature. The recipients must have a connection to the state either by birth, residence or their artistic work there and are selected by a jury. The prize was established in 1956 with the sculptor Emy Roeder as its first recipient. As of 2019, the main prize is an award of €10,000. There is also a Förderpreise (support prize) of €7,500 for outstanding young artists. Past recipients Past recipients include: *1956 – Emy Roeder, sculptor *1957 – Carl Zuckmayer, writer *1975 – Joseph Breitbach, writer *1977 – Volker David Kirchner, composer *1990 – Lothar Fischer, sculptor *1995 – , sculptor and painter *2000 – Edgar Reitz, filmmaker *2002 – , dancer and choreographer *2006 – , writer *2007 – Hansgünther Heyme, theatre director *2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Koblenz, Trier, Kaiserslautern, Worms and Neuwied. It is bordered by North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Baden-Württemberg and Hesse and by the countries France, Luxembourg and Belgium. Rhineland-Palatinate was established in 1946 after World War II, from parts of the former states of Prussia (part of its Rhineland and Nassau provinces), Hesse (Rhenish Hesse) and Bavaria (its former outlying Palatinate kreis or district), by the French military administration in Allied-occupied Germany. Rhineland-Palatinate became part of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 and shared the country's only border with the Saar Protectorate until the latter wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emy Roeder
Emy Roeder (30 January 1890 – 7 February 1971) was a modern German sculptor born in Würzburg, Germany. During the first third of the twentieth century she was one of a number of women that were associated with the German Expressionist movement of Modern art. She was the first woman to achieve ''Master Student'' of sculpture as a student at the Berlin Academy In 1937 her work was labeled Degenerate art by the Nazis. After World War II she was arrested in Italy by the Allies because she was a German citizen and then sent to an internment camp. She received the Villa Romana prize in 1936, and was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for her life work in 1960. She died, aged 81, in Mainz. Biography In her late teens from 1908 to 1910 she began to study both drawing and sculpture which led her to further her studies and attend Kunstakademie in Munich, Germany. She attended for two years, but found her experience to be a “disappointment”. It was in 1912 that she moved to Darmsta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Zuckmayer
Carl Zuckmayer (27 December 1896 – 18 January 1977) was a German writer and playwright. His older brother was the pedagogue, composer, conductor, and pianist Eduard Zuckmayer. Life and career Born in Nackenheim in Rhenish Hesse, he was the second son of Amalie (1869–1954), née Goldschmidt, and Carl Zuckmayer de (1864–1947). When he was four years old, his family moved to Mainz. With the outbreak of World War I, he (like many other high school students) finished Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium with a facilitated "emergency" ''Abitur'' and volunteered for military service. During the war, he served with the German Army's field artillery on the Western Front. In 1917, he published his first poems in the pacifist journal ''Die Aktion'' and he was one of the signatures of the "Appeal" published by the Antinational Socialist Party after the German Revolution of 9 November 1918. By this time, Zuckmayer held the rank of a ''Leutnant der Reserve'' (Reserve Officer). After th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Breitbach
Joseph Breitbach (1903–1980) was a French-German playwright, novelist and journalist. He was born in Koblenz and died in Munich. He is best known for his novel ''Bericht über Bruno'' (''Report on Bruno''). The 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 ... is named after him. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Breitbach, Joseph German male writers 1903 births 1980 deaths Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Members of the German Academy for Language and Literature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volker David Kirchner
Volker David Kirchner (25 June 1942 – 4 February 2020) was a German composer and violist. After studies of violin and composition at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory, the Hochschule für Musik Köln and the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, he worked for decades as a violist in the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt. He was simultaneously the violist in the Kehr Trio founded by his violin teacher Günter Kehr, and a composer of incidental music at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. He was known for his operas which were commissioned by major German opera houses. ''Die Trauung'' was premiered at Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden in 1975, ''Die fünf Minuten des Isaak Babel'', described as a scenic Requiem, premiered at the Opernhaus Wuppertal in 1980, and ''Gilgamesh'' was commissioned for the Expo 2000 and staged at the Staatsoper Hannover. His operas often focus on historic personalities such as Savonarola and Gutenberg. Kirchner also composed two symphonies, concertos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lothar Fischer
Lothar Fischer (November 8, 1933 – June 15, 2004) was a German sculptor. He was born in Germersheim, Palatinate (region), Palatinate. Between 1952 and 1958 he studied under Professor Heinrich Kirchner at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich. In 1958, he received a three-month scholarship to the Villa Massimo in Rome from the Arnold’sche Stiftung (Arnold’sche Foundation). After this he joined the painters Heimrad Prem, Helmut Sturm and Hans-Peter Zimmer in founding the group SPUR, which in 1959 entered the Situationist International. That year he participated in the ''Junge Kunst'' (Young Art) exhibition in Ulm. By 1962 the SPUR group had been expelled from the Situationist International. He participated in their exhibition at the Galerie van de Loo. The next year he was involved in ''Visione e Colore'' (Visions and Colours) in the Palazzo Grassi, Venice before joining other SPUR colleagues in the ''Nouveaux Espaces'' exhibition in Pari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Reitz
Edgar Reitz (born 1 November 1932) is a German filmmaker and Professor of Film at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (State University of Design) in Karlsruhe. He is best-known for his internationally acclaimed '' Heimat film series'' (1984-2013). Early life and education Reitz was born in Morbach, Hunsrück. His father Robert was a watchmaker and his business in Morbach was later taken over by Reitz's brother Guido. Reitz's interest in acting and producing plays began in his school years in Simmern, where he was encouraged by his German teacher Karl Windhäuser. After taking his Abitur, he studied German studies, journalism, art history and theatre studies in Munich from 1952. His first experiences in film-making however were not theoretical; he worked as a camera, editing, and production assistant from 1953. His interests in the advancement of new developments in film went as far as he cooperated with Wolfgang Georgsdorf and his '' Osmodrama'' in 2016 which led to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hansgünther Heyme
Hansgünther Heyme (born 22 August 1935) is a German theatre director and prominent figure in the Regietheater movement of the 1960s and 70s. Born in Bad Mergentheim, he studied at Heidelberg University and then under the German director Erwin Piscator. Heyme was the artistic director of the Staatstheater Wiesbaden from 1964 to 1967, the Schauspiel Köln (Cologne's principal theatre) from 1968 to 1979, the Württemberg State Theatre in Stuttgart from 1979 to 1986, the Ruhrfestspiele theatre festival from 1990 to 2003, and the Theater im Pfalzbau in Ludwigshafen from 2004 to 2014. Now in his 80s, he continues to work as a freelance director. Early years Heyme was born in Bad Mergentheim. His parents were ballroom dancers who had run away together as adolescents to run a dance school in Cologne. After his father's death from typhoid in World War II, his mother Erika married Kurt Joachim Fischer who became a prominent journalist and screenplay writer in post-war Germany. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fauré Quartet
The Fauré Quartet is a German piano quartet, named after Gabriel Fauré. Founded in 1995, they have performed internationally and recorded, including works written for them by composers such as Volker David Kirchner and Toshio Hosokawa. History The piano quartet was founded in 1995Marlene KnierspelMusik-Festival Schönes Liebesleid im Quartett(in German) ''Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger'' 13 November 2008 at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe and played its first concert there in January 1996. The players were at the beginning of their studies, which they continued at the Musikhochschule Köln. The Fauré Quartet has remained unchanged, with Erika Geldsetzer (violin), Sascha Frömbling (viola), Konstantin Heidrich (cello) and Dirk Mommertz (piano). They recorded piano quartets by Schumann, Dvořák, Fauré and Suk for the label "Ars Musici". Since 2005, they recorded quartets by Mozart, Brahms and Mendelssohn for Deutsche Grammophon. In 2014, Sony Classical released an album with pian ... [...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] |
Heiner Goebbels
Heiner Goebbels (born 17 August 1952) is a German composer, conductor and professor at Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen and artistic director of the International Festival of the Arts Ruhrtriennale 2012–14. His composition ''Stifters Dinge'' (2007) received five votes in a 2017 ''Classic Voice'' poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000, and writers for ''The Guardian'' ranked his composition ''Hashirigaki'' (2000) the ninth greatest classical composition of the same period. Biography Goebbels was born in Neustadt an der Weinstraße. He studied sociology and music in Frankfurt am Main,Program for Pacific Musicworks / Seattle Chamber Players performance of Heiner Goebbels ''Songs of Wars I Have Seen'', On the Boards, Seattle, 4–6 March 2010. and has composed for ensemble and for large orchestra. He has created several prize-winning radio plays, staged concerts, and, since the early 1990s, music theatre works, which have been invited to the most important theatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mittelbayerische Zeitung
''Mittelbayerische Zeitung'' is a regional newspaper for Bavaria, Germany, founded in 1945 by Karl Friedrich Esser. Headquartered in Regensburg, the paper employs 550 and is owned by Mittelbayerischer Verlag KG. The online version can be reached at ''mittelbayerische.de''. There is a paywall A paywall is a method of restricting access to content, with a purchase or a paid subscription, especially news. Beginning in the mid-2010s, newspapers started implementing paywalls on their websites as a way to increase revenue after years of ... installed, but four articles per month are free. References External links * Mittelbayerischer Verlag 1945 establishments in Germany German-language newspapers Mass media in Regensburg Newspapers published in Germany Newspapers established in 1945 {{Germany-newspaper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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