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Mainzer Stadtschreiber
The Mainzer Stadtschreiber (City clerk in Mainz) is an annual German literature award. It is awarded by ZDF, 3sat and the city of Mainz and was founded in 1984. The award is endowed with €12,500. Additionally the laureate receives the right to live in the town clerk's domicile in the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz for one year. Together with ZDF, the recipient is able to produce a documentary based on a free choice of topic. Recipients * 1985 Gabriele Wohmann * 1986 H. C. Artmann * 1987 * 1988 Sarah Kirsch * 1989 Horst Bienek * 1990 Günter Kunert * 1991 * 1992 Katja Behrens * 1993 * 1994 Libuše Moníková * 1995 Peter Härtling * 1996 Peter Bichsel * 1997 Friedrich Christian Delius * 1998 Erich Loest * 1999 Tilman Spengler * 2000/2001 Hanns-Josef Ortheil * 2002 Katja Lange-Müller * 2003 Urs Widmer * 2004 Raoul Schrott * 2005 Sten Nadolny * 2006 Patrick Roth * 2007 Ilija Trojanow * 2008 Michael Kleeberg * 2009 Monika Maron * 2010 Josef Haslinger * 2011 Ingo Schul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urs Widmer
Urs Widmer (21 May 1938 – 2 April 2014) was a Swiss novelist, playwright, an essayist, and a short story writer. Biography Widmer was born in Basel in 1938, and for many years lived in Zurich. Widmer studied German, French, and history at the universities of Basel and Montpellier. After completing his PhD, he worked briefly as an editor at '' Suhrkamp Verlag'', but left the publishing house during the Lektoren-Aufstand ("Editors' Revolt") of 1968. In 2014, Roman Bucheli, Literary Editor of the '' Neue Zürcher Zeitung'', said that Widmer: :"is without doubt one of the most significant and versatile talents currently at work in the field of contemporary German-language literature as well as one of the most successful. His sales are invariably in the high five-figure bracket" Works in English translation *''My mother's lover'' ("Der Geliebte meiner Mutter"). Tr. Donal McLaughlin, London, Seagull Books 011 . *''My father's book'' ("Das Buch des Vaters"). Tr. Donal McLaughlin, Lond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Schalansky
Judith Schalansky (born 20 September 1980) is a German writer, book designer and publisher. Work Her book '' Atlas of Remote Islands'' won first prize in the Stiftung Buchkunst's The Most Beautiful German Books competition (German: Die schönsten deutschen Bücher) in 2009. In 2012, she won the same prize for ''The Giraffe’s Neck''. Schalansky has degrees in both art history and communication design. Since 2013, she has been the general editor of the ''Naturkunden'' series, published by Matthes & Seitz. Personal life Schalansky was born in Greifswald. She lives in Berlin with her partner, actor Bettina Hoppe. The asteroid 95247 Schalansky was named after her in 2011. Bibliography * * * * * English translations * * * * Awards and honors * 2007: Silbermedaille des Art Directors Club Deutschland for ''Fraktur mon Amour'' * 2007: Type Directors Club's Award for Typographic Excellence for ''Fraktur mon Amour'' * 2009: First Prize, Stiftung Buchkunst's "The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Stamm
Peter Stamm (born 18 January 1963 in Münsterlingen) is a Swiss writer. His prize-winning books have been translated into more than thirty languages. For his entire body of work and his accomplishments in fiction, he was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 2013, and in 2014 he won the prestigious Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. Life Peter Stamm grew up in Weinfelden in the canton of Thurgau the son of an accountant. After completing primary and secondary school he spent three years as an apprentice accountant and then five as an accountant. He then chose to go back to school at the University of Zurich taking courses in a variety of fields including English studies, Business informatics, Psychology, and Psychopathology. During this time he also worked as an intern at a psychiatric clinic. After living for a time in New York, Paris, and Scandinavia he settled down in 1990 as a writer and freelance journalist in Zurich. He wrote articles for, among others, the Neue Zürcher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathrin Röggla
Kathrin Röggla (born 1971) is an Austrian writer, essayist and playwright. She was born in Salzburg, and lives in Berlin since 1992. She has written numerous prose works, including essays, dramas and radio plays. She has won a long range of awards for her literary works. In May 2012 she was elected as a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin. And in November 2015 she got also elected as member of the national Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt. Röggla is married with the theater director, actor and translator Leopold von Verschuer and mother of a son. Prizes * 1992: Jahresstipendium des Landes Salzburg für Literatur * 1993: Preis des Internationalen Open-Mike-Festivals Berlin * 1994: Nachwuchsstipendium für Literatur des Bundesministeriums für Unterricht und Kunst * 1995: Meta-Merz-Preis * 1995: Reinhard-Priessnitz-Preis * 1995: Staatsstipendium des Bundesministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst * 1997/1998: Staatsstipendium für Literatur de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augsburger Allgemeine
The ''Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung'' is a major German regional daily newspaper published since 1945. History From 1807 to 1882, another paper named '' Allgemeine Zeitung'' was published in Augsburg but it is not connected to the later newspaper. Between 1933 and 1945, newspapers in Augsburg, as in the whole of Germany, were tightly controlled by the Nazi regime. With the fall of Nazi Germany, it became possible to publish anti-Nazi papers. However, in the early years the reviving free press had to contend with many restrictions placed by the Allied (specifically, American) Occupation authorities. The newspaper was first published on 30 October 1945 under the name of ''Schwäbische Landeszeitung'', under the initiative of Curt Frenzel. Originally, due to the restrictions in early post-war Germany, it was only published twice-weekly. Frenzel had received a licence to publish a newspaper from Colonel Bernhard MacMahon of the US military government in Bavaria. [...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 co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Haslinger
Josef Haslinger (born July 5, 1955) is an Austrian writer. Haslinger was born in Zwettl, Lower Austria. He studied philosophy, drama and Germanic studies at the University of Vienna. He received his PhD in 1980. Since then he has been working as a freelance writer. 1976 to 1992 he was co-editor of the literary magazine "Wespennest". In 1983/84 Haslinger had a teaching position at the University of Kassel, was Secretary General of the Graz Authors' Assembly from 1986 to 1989, and from 1986 to 1994 co-organizer of the "Vienna Lectures on Literature". In 1995 he was a lecturer at the University of Kassel and wrote parts of his political thriller novel, ''Opernball'' (Opera Ball) there. Haslinger has taught since 1996 as a professor of literary aesthetics at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. He lives Vienna und Leipzig. Awards and honors * 1980 Theodor Körner Prize * 1982 Österreichisches Staatsstipendium für Literatur * 1984 Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien * 1985 Stipe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monika Maron
Monika Maron (born 3 June 1941 in Berlin) is a German author, formerly of the German Democratic Republic. Biography She moved in 1951 from West to East Berlin with her stepfather, Karl Maron, the GDR Minister of the Interior. She studied theatre and spent time as a directing assistant and as a journalist. In the late 1970s, she began writing full-time in East Berlin. She left the GDR in 1988 with a three-year visa. After living in Hamburg, Germany, until 1992, she returned to a reunited Berlin, where she lives and writes. Her works deal to a large degree with confrontation with the past and explore the threats posed both by memory and isolation. Her prose is sparse, bleak, and lonely, conveying the sensitivity and desperation of her narrators. Her published work exhibited increasingly conservative political views. In October 2020 she announced that her publishing house had cut ties with her. Awards In 1992, she was distinguished with the renowned Kleist Prize, awarded annually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Kleeberg
Michael Kleeberg (born 24 August 1959 in Stuttgart), is a German writer and translator. He studied political science and modern history at the University of Hamburg and visual communication at the Kunsthochschule Hamburg. He lived in Rome, Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris in the 1980s and 1990s. Since 2000 he lives in Berlin as a full-time writer and translator from English and French. Bibliography * ''Böblinger Brezeln.'' Munich 1984. * ''Der saubere Tod.'' Munich 1987. * ''Proteus der Pilger.'' Halle 1993. * ''Barfuß.'' Short stories, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1995. * ''Terror in Normalien.'' Comedy, Hunzinger Bühnenverlag, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe 1995. * ''Der Kommunist vom Montmartre und andere Geschichten.'' Kiepenheuer und Witsch, Cologne 1997. * ''Ein Garten im Norden.'' Ullstein, Berlin 1998. * ''The King of Corsica'' (''Der König von Korsika''). Novel. DVA, Stuttgart/ Munich 2001. In English 2007. * ''Das Tier, das weint. Libanesisches Reisetagebuch.'' DVA, Munich 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilija Trojanow
Ilija Trojanow (Bulgarian: Илия Троянов, also transliterated as Ilya Troyanov; born 23 August 1965 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian–German writer, translator and publisher. Life and literary career Trojanow was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1965. In 1971 his family fled Bulgaria through Yugoslavia and Italy to Germany, where they received political asylum. In 1972 the family travelled on to Kenya, where Ilija's father had obtained a job as engineer. With one interruption from 1977–1981, Ilija Trojanow lived in Nairobi until 1984, and attended the German School Nairobi. After a stay in Paris, he studied law and ethnology at Munich University from 1985 to 1989. He interrupted these studies to found Kyrill-und-Method-Verlag in 1989, and after that Marino-Verlag in 1992, both of which specialised in African literature. In 1999 Trojanow moved to Mumbai and became intensely involved with Indian life and culture. He has lived in Cape Town, returned to Germany (Mainz), and then to A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Roth
Patrick Roth (born June 25, 1953 in Freiburg/Breisgau) is a German writer. He moved to the USA in his early twenties and lived there for many years. The author of more than a dozen books, he has won a number of literary prizes including the Rauris Literature Prize, the Hugo-Ball-Preis and the Literaturpreis der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. His book '' Starlite Terrace'' was translated into English by Krishna Winston Krishna Winston is an American academic and translator of German literature. She is the daughter of translators Richard and Clara Winston.Fraser, C. Gerald (5 January 1980)Richard Winston, 62, Translator of Books from German Is Dead ''The New Yor .... Books * ** References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Roth, Patrick German male writers 1953 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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