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Marieluise-Fleißer-Preis
Marieluise-Fleißer-Preis is a German biennial literary prize, given by the town of Ingolstadt, Bavaria, on behalf of the Marieluise-Fleißer-Gesellschaft, in memory of the writer Marieluise Fleißer who was born in Ingolstadt. It is awarded to a German-language author who writes, as Fleißer did, about the conflict of unfulfilled claims to happiness and everyday life ("Konflikt zwischen unerfüllten Glücksansprüchen und dem alltäglichen Leben". The prize money is €10,000. Recipients * 1981 Irmgard Keun * 1986 * 1989 Herta Müller * 1992 Thomas Hürlimann * 1995 Robert Schneider * 1998 * 2001 Petra Morsbach * 2003 * 2005 * 2007 Franz Xaver Kroetz * 2009 Dea Loher * 2011 Sibylle Lewitscharoff * 2013 Rainald Goetz * 2015 Ulrich Peltzer * 2017 Christoph Ransmayr * 2019 Iris Wolff Iris Wolff (born 28 July 1977 as Martina Iris Wolff) is a German writer. Life Wolff was born in Sibiu (''Hermannstadt''), a city in the Transylvania region of what was then the Socialist R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris Wolff
Iris Wolff (born 28 July 1977 as Martina Iris Wolff) is a German writer. Life Wolff was born in Sibiu (''Hermannstadt''), a city in the Transylvania region of what was then the Socialist Republic of Romania. Part of the Transylvanian Saxon community, she is the daughter of a Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Romania, Lutheran pastor, and was raised in Sibiu and in Semlac in Arad County. In 1985, she emigrated with her family to Germany and graduated from secondary school in Stuttgart. Later on, she studied German studies and literature, Religious studies as well as Graphic arts and painting at the University of Marburg. From 2003 to 2013, she worked at the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar, Marbach and was a lecturer in art education. From November 2013 to March 2018, she was the coordinator of the Netzwerk Kulturelle Bildung (Cultural Education Network) in Freiburg. Since 2018, she has worked as a freelance writer. Wolff lives with her family in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibylle Lewitscharoff
Sibylle Lewitscharoff (; 16 April 1954 – 13 May 2023) was a German author. She first wrote in her spare time as a bookkeeper, quitting after her first novel, ''Pong'', appeared in 1998. ''Pong'' was successful with critics and the public, earning her the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. It was followed by ' (2006), ' (2009) and ' (2011). She received several German literary awards, including the Georg Büchner Prize in 2013, for " e-exploringthe boundaries of what we consider our daily reality with an inexhaustible energy of observation, narrative fantasy and linguistic inventiveness.". Early life Lewitscharoff was born in Stuttgart. Her parents were Kristo Lewitscharoff, a gynecologist who had immigrated from Bulgaria, and Marianne, a German woman. She grew up with a brother, who went on to manage a Berlin-based advertising company that Lewitscharoff later worked under as a bookkeeper. Her father suffered from depression and committed suicide when she was eleven years old. She obt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marieluise Fleißer
Marieluise Fleißer (; 23 November 1901, in Ingolstadt – 2 February 1974, in Ingolstadt) was a German writer and playwright, most commonly associated with the aesthetic movement and style of ''Neue Sachlichkeit,'' or New Objectivity. Biography Born in Ingolstadt in 1901 to Anna and Heinrich Fleißer, a smith and hardware store owner, Fleißer was sent to a Catholic convent school in Regensburg for her education, an experience which would later be reflected in her first novel ''Ein Zierde für den Verein: Roman vom Rauchen, Sporteln, Lieben und Verkaufen'' (1931)''.'' In 1919, she enrolled at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, where she studied German literature, philosophy, and theater under Arthur Kutscher, the founder of theater studies in Germany and an influential critic and historian of literature; during this period, her first time living on her own, she began writing short stories, such as "Meine Zwillingsschwester Olga," which would be her first publicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herta Müller
Herta Müller (; born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf (; ), Timiș County in Romania; her native languages are German and Romanian. Since the early 1990s, she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages. Müller is noted for her works depicting the effects of violence, cruelty and terror, usually in the setting of the Socialist Republic of Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceaușescu regime which she has experienced herself. Many of her works are told from the viewpoint of the Germans of Romania, German minority in Romania and are also a depiction of the modern history of the Germans in the Banat and Transylvania. Her much acclaimed 2009 novel ''The Hunger Angel'' (''Atemschaukel'') portrays the deportation of Romania's German minority to Gulag, Soviet Gulags during the Soviet occupation of Romania for use a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Schneider (writer)
Robert Schneider (16 June 1961) is an Austrian writer, who published novels including ''Schlafes Bruder'', texts for the theatre, and poetry. His works have been translated into many languages. ''Schlafes Bruder'' became the basis of Brother of Sleep, a film, a ballet, an opera and several plays, and received international awards. Schneider withdrew from writing in 2007. Career Born in Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria, Schneider was adopted at age two by a couple of peasants and grew up in the village of Meschach near Götzis, where he still lives as a freelance writer. He studied composition, theatre sciences and art history in Vienna from 1981 to 1986. He discontinued his studies to become a writer, making a living by working as a tourist guide and organist. He received several scholarships for literature. His first novel, ''Schlafes Bruder'' (''Brother of Sleep''), was rejected by 24 publishers, and finally appeared in 1992 by Reclam in Leipzig. The book, telling the fictional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainald Goetz
Rainald Maria Goetz (born 24 May 1954, in Munich) is a German author, playwright and essayist. Biography After studying History and Medicine in Munich and earning a degree (PhD and M.D) in each, he soon concentrated on his writing. His first published works, especially his novel ''Insane'' (), published in 1983, made him a cult author of the intellectual left. To the delight of his fans and the dismay of some critics, he mixed neo-expressionist writing with social realism in the vein of Alfred Döblin and the fast pace of British pop writers such as Julie Burchill. During a televised literary event in 1983, Goetz slit his own forehead with a razor blade and let the blood run down his face until he finished reading. Goetz has the reputation of an enthusiastic observer of media and pop culture. He has embraced avant-garde philosophers such as Foucault and Luhmann as well as the DJs of the techno movement, especially Sven Väth. He kept a blog in 1998–99 called ''Abfall fà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Xaver Kroetz
Franz Xaver Kroetz (; born 25 February 1946) is a German author, playwright, actor and film director. He achieved great success beginning in the early 1970s. ''Persistent'', '' Farmyard'', and '' Request Concert'', all written in 1971, are some of the works conventionally associated with Kroetz. Kroetz is part of a generation of playwrights who modified the critical folk-piece, emphasizing in his works of the early 1970s the underside of West Germany's affluence through realistic portrayals of the lives of the poor. He later began writing for television, which led to a wider audience. His more analytical, Brecht-influenced plays were generally not well-received, though ''Upper Austria'' (1972) and ''The Nest'' (1974) achieved critical and commercial success. Some later works of social realism like ''Through the Leaves'' (1976) and ''Tom Fool'' (1978) are also highly regarded. Kroetz's plays have been translated and performed internationally. Simon Stephens argued in 2016, "K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dea Loher
Dea Loher (born 1964) is a German playwright and author. Biography Dea Loher was born Andrea Beate Loher in 1964 in Traunstein, Bavaria, Germany. She initially used the first name Dea as a pen name, but eventually changed her name officially to Dea. She studied German literature and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She then spent a year in Brazil. In 1990, she began studying creative writing for the stage with Heiner Müller and Yaak Karsunke at the Berlin University of the Arts. Her first plays premiered in the early 1990s, and she gained recognition as one of the most important young playwrights of her time in Germany.Dea Loher (Germany). ''internationales literaturfestival berlin'' Retrieved 18 March 2014 from http://www.literaturfestival.com/participants/authors/2010/dea-loher Dea Loher has since been awarded major prizes for drama and literature in Germany, including the Joseph-Breitbach-Preis. Works Dramas * ''Tätowierung'' (Premiere at the Ens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Prize
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize ( Spanish); the Camões Prize ( Portuguese); th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Ransmayr
Christoph Ransmayr (; born 20 March 1954) is an Austrian writer. Life Born in Wels, Upper Austria, Ransmayr grew up in Roitham near Gmunden and the Traunsee. From 1972 to 1978 he studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna. He worked there as cultural editor for the newspaper ''Extrablatt'' from 1978 to 1982, also publishing articles and essays in ''GEO (magazine), GEO'', ''TransAtlantik'' and ''Merian (magazine), Merian''. After his novel ''Die letzte Welt'' was published in 1988, he traveled extensively across Ireland, Asia, North and South America. This is reflected in his works, where he looks at life as a tourist and believes that good writing needs ignorance, speechlessness, light luggage, curiosity, or at least a willingness not only to judge the world, but to experience it. In 1994 he moved to West Cork, Ireland, as a friend offered to lease him a splendid house on the Atlantic coast for a very affordable rent. In his prose, Ransmayr combines historical facts with fict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrich Peltzer
Ulrich Peltzer (born 9 December 1956) is a German novelist. Life Peltzer was born in Krefeld. Starting in 1975, he studied philosophy and social psychology in Berlin. He graduated as a psychologist in 1982. Since then he has been working as a full-time author. , he has written five novels. Four of them deal with his experiences in Berlin, but one takes place in New York (''Bryant Park''). Peltzer usually rejects conventional, realistic descriptions of reality. Instead, his characters are depicted through a stream-of-consciousness technique. Peltzer lives in Berlin. Awards Peltzer has received several awards: *1992 Bertelsmann-award at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt *1996 Berliner Literaturpreis of the Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung *1997 Anna Seghers Prize *2000 Preis der SWR-Bestenliste *2001 Niederrheinischer Literaturpreis of the city of Krefeld *2003 Bremer Literaturpreis *2008 Berliner Literaturpreis for lifetime achievement *2009/2010 Stadtschreiber von Berg ... [...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 Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret .... ''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 pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
