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Peter-Huchel-Preis
Peter-Huchel-Preis is a literature prize awarded in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Peter Huchel Prize for German-language poetry, donated by the state of Baden-Württemberg and Südwestrundfunk, has been awarded since 1983 for an outstanding lyric work of the previous year. The award is endowed with €10,000 and is presented annually on 3 April, Peter Huchel's birthday, in Staufen im Breisgau. Winners *1984 Manfred Peter Hein, ''Gegenzeichnung'' *1985 Guntram Vesper, ''Die Inseln im Landmeer und neue Gedichte'' *1986 Michael Krüger, ''Die Dronte'' *1987 Wulf Kirsten, ''Die Erde bei Meißen'' *1988 Elke Erb, ''Kastanienallee'' *1989 Luise Schmidt, ''Die Finsternis die freie Existenz'' *1990 Ernst Jandl, ''Idyllen'' *1991 Günter Herburger, ''Das brennende Haus'' *1992 Ludwig Greve (posthum), ''Sie lacht und andere Gedichte'' *1993 Sarah Kirsch, ''Erlkönigs Tochter'' *1994 Jürgen Becker, ''Foxtrott im Erfurter Stadion'' *1995 Durs Grünbein, ''Falten und Fallen'' *1996 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Poschmann
Marion Poschmann (born 15 December 1969 in Essen) is a German author, novelist, and poet. Life Marion Poschmann grew up in Mülheim an der Ruhr and Essen. From 1989 to 1995 she studied German, philosophy, and Slavic studies in Bonn and Berlin. Her novel ''The Pine Islands'' was shortlisted for Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Selected works * ''Baden bei Gewitter.'' Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2002, . * ''Verschlossene Kammern.'' zu Klampen, Lüneburg 2002, . * ''Grund zu Schafen.'' Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2004, . * ''Schwarzweißroman.'' Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2005, . * ''Hundenovelle.'' Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2008, . * ''Geistersehen.'' Suhrkamp, Berlin 2010, . * ''Die Sonnenposition.'' Suhrkamp, Berlin 2013, . * ''Mondbetrachtung in mondloser Nacht. Über Dichtung.'' Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016, . * ''Geliehene Landschaften. Lehrgedichte und Elegien.'' Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016, . * '' D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elke Erb
Elke Erb (born 18 February 1938) is a German author-poet based in Berlin. She has also worked as a literary editor and translator. Biography Family provenance and early years Elke Erb was born at Rheinbach, Scherbach (today part of Rheinbach) in the hills south of Bonn. Her parents had moved there with her uncle Otto and his family in 1937 in order, as her father put it, to "overwinter National Socialism". :de:Ewald Erb, Ewald Erb (1903–1978), her father, worked at the local tax office, having lost his academic post as a Marxist literary historian at the University of Bonn in Machtergreifung, 1933 on account of "Communist activities". Her mother Elisabeth worked on the land. Elke was the eldest of her parents' three daughters, all born in Scherbach between 1938 and 1941 when her father was conscripted for military service. Youngest of the three sisters is the author-poet Ute Erb. As a member of the Second World War, wartime Wehrmacht, German army :de:Ewald Erb, Ewald Erb was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durs Grünbein
Durs Grünbein (born 1962) is a German poet and essayist. Life and career Durs Grünbein was born and grew up in Dresden. He studied Theater Studies in East Berlin, to which he moved in 1985. Since the Peaceful Revolution nonviolently toppled the Berlin Wall and Communism in the German Democratic Republic in 1989, Grünbein has traveled widely in Europe, South-West Asia, and North America, and sojourned in various places, including Amsterdam, Paris, London, Vienna, Toronto, Los Angeles, New York City, and St. Louis. He lives in Berlin and, since 2013, in Rome. His production comprises numerous collections of poetry and prose—essays, short narrative-reflexive prose, aphorisms, fragments, diary annotations and philosophical meditations—as well as three librettos for opera. He has translated classic texts from Aeschylus and Seneca, and a variety of authors, including John Ashbery, Samuel Beckett, Wallace Stevens, Henri Michaux, and Tomas Venclova. His works have been transla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günter Herburger
Günter Herburger (April 6, 1932 – May 3, 2018) was a German writer. He was initially counted among the "New Realists" funded by , became the author of socialist, imaginative utopian worlds since the 1970s and took an outsider position in German-language contemporary literature. He was a writer of poems, children's books, radio plays and a member of the PEN Center Germany. Early life and education Herbrger was born in Isny, Allgäu. He was the son of a veterinarian. From 1945 to 1950 he attended the Urspring School in Schelklingen. He then began studying Sanskrit at the University of Munich. He also studied philosophy and theatre studies. Career In 1954 Herburger broke off his studies and went on trips. He lived occasionally in Ibiza, in Madrid and Oran and kept afloat with occasional work. In Paris he had contact with the author Joseph Breitbach. In 1956 he was forced to return to Munich for health reasons. He worked on his first novel. After marrying his first wife, Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Jandl
Ernst Jandl (; 1 August 1925 – 9 June 2000) was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator. He became known for his experimental lyric, mainly sound poems (''Sprechgedichte'') in the tradition of concrete and visual poetic forms. Poetry Influenced by Dada he started to write experimental poetry, first published in the journal ''Neue Wege'' ("New Ways") in 1952. He was the life partner of Friederike Mayröcker. In 1973 he co-founded the Grazer Autorenversammlung in Graz, became its vice president in 1975 and was its president from 1983 to 1987. His poems are characterized by German language word play, often at the level of single characters or phonemes. For example, his famous univocalic poem "ottos mops" (in English, "otto's pug") uses only the vowel "o". Of course, poems like this cannot easily be translated into other languages. Most of his poems are better heard than read. His lectures were always known as very impressive events, because of the particular way he prono ... [...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] |
Nicolas Born
Nicolas Born (31 December 1937 in Duisburg – 7 December 1979 in Lüchow-Dannenberg) was a German writer. Nicolas Born was – together with Rolf Dieter Brinkmann – one of the most important and most innovative German poets of his generation. His two novels, '' Die erdabgewandte Seite der Geschichte'', and ''Die Fälschung'', have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and count among the most important works of German literature of the 1970s. Life and works Nicolas Born grew up in a lower-middle-class family in the Ruhrgebiet. He worked making printing accessories in a chemical process for a large printing company in Essen, until he was able – with the help of a first literary prize, the Förderpreis Nordrhein-Westfalen, for his first novel, "Der Zweite Tag" – to go to Berlin, and live from writing. He was an autodidact, and with his poems and novel scripts, soon gathered enough attention from known writers and critics like Ernst Meister, Johannes Bobrowski, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wulf Kirsten
Wulf Kirsten (21 June 1934 – 14 December 2022) was a German poet, novelist, and publisher. He is known for his nature poetry and his essays on the history and culture of Saxony. The son of a stonemason, Kirsten was born in Klipphausen, Meissen on 21 June 1934. He worked as salesman, bookkeeper and labourer before graduating from the Workers' and Farmers' College (''Arbeiter- und Bauern-Fakultät'') of Leipzig in 1960, and then completed a teaching degree in German and Russian in 1964. At the same time he worked on a freelance basis for the compilers of the ''Dictionary of the Upper Saxon Dialects'', providing them with more than a thousand words from his own household. After obtaining his degree, he worked briefly as a teacher, and then in 1965 moved to Weimar to work for the Aufbau Verlag publishing house, where he would stay until 1987. To further his career as a poet, in the years 1969 and 1970 Kirsten spent nine months studying at the Johannes R. Becher Institute of Lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uljana Wolf
Uljana Wolf is a German poet and translator (from English and Polish) known for exploring multilingualism in her work. Wolf works in both Berlin and New York. She teaches German at New York University. Uljana Wolf was born in East Berlin in 1979. She studied German Studies, cultural studies and English Literature in Berlin and Krakow. Prizes * Peter-Huchel-Preis (2006) * Dresdner Lyrikpreis (2006) * Erlanger Prize for Poetry as Translation (2015) * Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (2016) * Villa Massimo fellowship (2017/2018) Works in German * ''Kochanie ich habe Brot gekauft.'' Gedichte. kookbooks (2005) * ''Falsche Freunde.'' Gedichte. kookbooks (2009) * ''Box Office.'' Stiftung Lyrik-Kabinett (2009) * ''Sonne von Ort,'' a bilingual collaborative erasure of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's ''Sonnets from the Portuguese'' and their German translations by Rainer Maria Rilke, in collaboration with Christian Hawkey) (2012) * ''Meine schönste Lengevitch.'' Prosagedichte. kookbooks (201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulf Stolterfoht
Ulf Stolterfoht (born 8 June 1963 in Stuttgart) is a German writer. Life and work Ulf Stolterfoht opted out of military service and performed civilian service instead, after which he studied German and Linguistics in Bochum und Tübingen. Stolterfoht writes language-critical lyric poetry and essays which have been published in many anthologies (e.g. Der Große Conrady) and literary magazines. His first publication was the poetry volume "fachsprachen I-IX" ('specialist languages I-IX') which appeared in 1998 published by Urs Engeler Editor. In 2005, his translation of Gertrude Stein's "Winning His Way" appeared. From 2008 to 2009, he was visiting professor in the German Institute of Literature in Leipzig. Since 2014 he has been a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt. Ulf Stolterfoht lives in Berlin. Titles * handapparat heslach: Quellen und Materialien. roughbooks (2011) * ammengespräche. roughbooks (2010) * Frauen-Liebe und Leben. Variat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friederike Mayröcker
Friederike Mayröcker (20 December 1924 – 4 June 2021) was an Austrian writer of poetry and prose, audio plays, children's books and dramatic texts. She experimented with language, and was regarded as an avantgarde poet, and as one of the leading authors in German. Her work, inspired by art, music, literature and everyday life, appeared as "novel and also dense text formations, often described as 'magical'." According to ''The New York Times'', her work was "formally inventive, much of it exploiting the imaginative potential of language to capture the minutiae of daily life, the natural world, love and grief". Life Mayröcker was born in Vienna, the daughter of a teacher and a milliner. Until age 11, she spent the summers regularly in the village Deinzendorf. In World War II, she was drafted as an air force aide, working as a secretary. From 1946 to 1969 Mayröcker was an English teacher at several public schools in Vienna. She started writing poetry at age 15. In 1946, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oswald Egger
Oswald may refer to: People *Oswald (given name), including a list of people with the name *Oswald (surname), including a list of people with the name Fictional characters *Oswald the Reeve, who tells a tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's ''The Canterbury Tales'' *Oswald, servant of Goneril in Shakespeare's play ''King Lear'' * Oswald Bastable, in E. Nesbit's novel ''The Story of the Treasure Seekers'' and Michael Moorcock's unrelated novel ''The Warlord of the Air'' *Roald Dahl's title character in the novel ''My Uncle Oswald'', as well as two short stories *Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a cartoon character from the 1920s and 1930s created by Walt Disney *Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot, Batman villain better known as the Penguin *Oswald Baskerville, in the Pandora Hearts manga * Oswald (comics), a Marvel Comics mutant *Clara Oswald, a character in the British science fiction TV series ''Doctor Who'' *Oswald Danes, in the British science fiction TV series ''Torchwood: Miracle Day'' *Oswald "Ott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
