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Navid Kermani
Navid Kermani (; fa, نوید کرمانی; ; born 27 November 1967 in Siegen, Germany) is a German writer and orientalist. He is the author of several novels as well as books and essays on Islam, the Middle East and Christian-Muslim dialogue. He has won numerous prizes for his literary and academic work, including the Peace Prize of the German Publishers' Association on 18 June 2015. Life Navid Kermani was born the fourth son of Iranian parents in Siegen, West Germany. He began his writing career at age 15 as a local reporter for the ''Westfälische Rundschau''. As a student he published in German national newspapers; from 1996 to 2000 he was a regular contributor to the cultural section of ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung''. He studied philosophy, Oriental studies and drama in Cologne, Cairo and Bonn. His doctoral thesis has been published in English translation as ''God Is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Experience of the Quran''. He regularly publishes articles, literary reviews ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Wieland Hoban
Wieland is a Germanic name, from ''wela'', "battle", and ''nand'', "brave". The English form is Wayland. * Weyland the Smith, a smith in Germanic mythology Given name *Wieland Wagner (1917–1966), grandson of Richard Wagner Surname *Alon Wieland (1935–2022), American businessman and politician * Christoph Martin Wieland (1733–1813), German poet *Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877–1957), Nobel Prize–winning German chemist * Jan Müller-Wieland (born 1966), German composer *Joe Wieland (born 1990), American baseball player *Johann Wieland (born 1972), Austrian ski mountaineer *Liza Wieland (born 1960), American novelist * Melchior Wieland (c. 1520–1589), Prussian herbalist *Paul Wieland (born 1962), American politician *Rainer Wieland (born 1957), a German politician Other * ''Wieland'' (novel), a 1798 novel by Charles Brockden Brown See also * Wayland (other) * Weyland (other) Weyland or Weylandt may refer to: In mythology * Weyland or Wayland the Smith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis
Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis is a German literary prize. It was established in 1983. In June, the City of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe annually awards the prize. It is endowed with 20,000 euros and is awarded as a general literary award for outstanding achievements. The award commemorates the poet Friedrich Hölderlin who lived in Bad Homburg for a few years. It is awarded at the anniversary of the evening before Friedrich Hölderlin's death. Recipients * 1983: Hermann Burger * 1984: Sarah Kirsch * 1985: Ulla Hahn * 1986: Elisabeth Borchers * 1987: Peter Härtling * 1988: Karl Krolow * 1989: Wolf Biermann * 1990: Rolf Haufs * 1991: Günter Kunert * 1992: Hilde Domin * 1993: Friederike Mayröcker * 1994: Ludwig Harig * 1995: Ernst Jandl * 1996: Martin Walser * 1997: Doris Runge * 1998: Christoph Ransmayr * 1999: Reiner Kunze * 2000: Marcel Reich-Ranicki * 2001: Dieter Wellershoff * 2002: Robert Menasse * 2003: Monika Maron * 2004: Johannes Kühn * 2005: Durs Grünbein * 2006: Rüdiger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Michalski Prize For Literature
Jan Michalski Prize for Literature (French: Prix Jan Michalski) is a Swiss literary prize for any work of fiction or non-fiction published anywhere in the world in any language. It is meant to recognize authors from around the world and world literature World literature is used to refer to the total of the world's national literature and the circulation of works into the wider world beyond their country of origin. In the past, it primarily referred to the masterpieces of Western European lit ... in general. The jury is multicultural and multilingual in composition. The award was launched October 2009 and the first winner was announced November 2010. The winner receives . The authors of finalists are invited for a three-month period of residence in the Maison de l'écriture. The prize was created by the Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature (Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Ecriture et la Littérature), founded in 2004 at the initiative of Vera Michalski-Hoffm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Rhine-Westphalian Academy Of Sciences, Humanities And The Arts
The North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts (''Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste'') is a learned society in Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ..., Germany, founded in 1970. External links *http://www.awk.nrw.de/ {{DEFAULTSORT:North Rhine-Westphalia Academy For Sciences And Arts Education in Düsseldorf Culture in Düsseldorf Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities 1970 establishments in Germany Scientific organizations established in 1970 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Standard
''Der Standard'' is an Austrian daily newspaper published in Vienna. History and profile ''Der Standard'' was founded by Oscar Bronner as a financial newspaper and published its first edition on 19 October 1988. German media company Axel Springer acquired a stake in the paper in 1988 and sold it in 1995. Bronner remains the paper's publisher, Martin Kotynek is editor-in-chief. ''Der Standard'' sees itself as—in a Continental European sense (socially and culturally, but not economically)—liberal and independent. Third parties have described the paper as having a left-liberal stance. Until 2007, the editor-in-chief of the daily was Gerfried Sperl, Alexandra Föderl-Schmid succeeded him in the post. In 2002 the paper was one of four quality daily newspapers with nationwide distribution along with ''Salzburger Nachrichten'', ''Die Presse'', and ''Wiener Zeitung''. Although ''Der Standard'' is intended to be a national paper, in the past it had an undeniable tendency to focus on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
The ''Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung'' (''WAZ'') is a commercial newspaper from Essen, Germany, published by Funke Mediengruppe. History and profile ''Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung'' was founded by Erich Brost and first published 3 April 1948. The paper has its headquarters in Essen. During the third quarter of 1992 ''Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung'' had a circulation of 626,000 copies. See also * List of newspapers in Germany References External links * * Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, 1948 establishments in Germany German-language newspapers Mass media in Essen Daily newspapers published in Germany Publications established in 1948 German news websites {{Germany-newspaper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cicero Prize
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. His extensive writings include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy and politics, and he is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and served as consul in 63 BC. His influence on the Latin language was immense. He wrote more than three-quarters of extant Latin literature that is known to have existed in his lifetime, and it has been said that subsequent prose was either a reaction against or a return to his style, not only in Latin but in European languages up to the 19th century. Cicero introduced into Latin the arguments of the chief schools of Hellenistic philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kleist Prize
The Kleist Prize is an annual German literature prize. The prize was first awarded in 1912, on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the death of Heinrich von Kleist. The Kleist Prize was the most important literary award of the Weimar Republic, but was discontinued in 1933. In 1985 the prize was awarded for the first time in over fifty years. Between 1994 and 2000 it was awarded biennially. A monetary sum of €20,000 accompanies the award. Winners Listings of the Kleist Prize winners are maintained by the Kleist-Archiv Sembdner. and Kleist Gesellschaft 1912–1932 *1912 Hermann Burte and Reinhard Sorge *1913 Hermann Essig and Oskar Loerke *1914 Fritz von Unruh and Hermann Essig *1915 Robert Michel and Arnold Zweig *1916 Agnes Miegel and Heinrich Lersch *1917 Walter Hasenclever *1918 Leonhard Frank and Paul Zech *1919 Anton Dietzenschmidt and Kurt Heynicke *1920 Hans Henny Jahnn *1921 Paul Gurk *1922 Bertolt Brecht *1923 Wilhelm Lehmann and Robert Musil *1924 Er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Arendt Prize
The Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought (german: Hannah-Arendt-Preis für politisches Denken, links=no) is a prize awarded to individuals representing the tradition of political theorist Hannah Arendt, especially in regard to totalitarianism. It was instituted by the German Heinrich Böll Foundation (affiliated with the Alliance '90/The Greens) and the government of Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ... in 1994, and is awarded by an international jury. The prize money is €10,000. Laureates References External links * (English/French/German) Hannah-Arendt-Preis (2016 wayback archive version, in German)Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thoughton Heinrich Böll Foundation website {{Authority control Human rights awards Totalitarianism Politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal
The Buber-Rosenzweig-Medaille is an annual prize awarded since 1968 by the Deutscher Koordinierungsrat der Gesellschaften für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit (DKR; German Coordinating Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation) to individuals, initiatives, or institutions, which have actively contributed to Christian–Jewish understanding. Forty-four different societies belong to the DKR. The name of the prize honors the memory of the Austrian-Jewish philosopher, translator, and educator Martin Buber (1878–1965) and the German-Jewish theologian Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929). In its inaugural year, the prize was granted to both the historian Friedrich Heer (''Gottes erste Liebe''; ''God's First Love'') and the Protestant theologian Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt (''Die Entdeckung des Judentums für die christliche Theologie: Israel im Denken Karl Barths''; ''The Discovery of Judaism for Christian Theology: Israel in the Thought of Karl Barth''). Recipients *1968 Fri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
