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Rauris Literature Prize
The Rauris Literature Prize () is an annual Austrian literary award since 1972 by the Salzburg state government. The prize money is €10,000. It is awarded "for the best prose first publication by a German-speaking author from the previous year". The prize is presented at the opening of the Rauris Literature Days. Recipients * 1972 Bodo Hell pp * 1973 Gerhard Amanshauser and Peter Rosei * 1974 Karin Struck * 1975 Franz Innerhofer * 1976 Peter Henisch (Special prize, no debut) * 1977 Hans Joachim Schädlich * 1978 Claudia Storz * 1979 Werner Herzog * 1980 Klaus Hoffer * 1981 ''not awarded'' * 1982 Thomas Hürlimann * 1983 Michael Köhlmeier and Martin R. Dean * 1984 Erwin Einzinger and Alain Claude Sulzer * 1985 Herta Müller and Helen Meier * 1986 Christa Moog and Eva Schmidt * 1987 Gisela Corleis * 1988 Werner Fritsch * 1989 Norbert Gstrein * 1990 Thomas Hettche * 1991 Judith Kuckart * 1992 Patrick Roth and Sabine Scholl * 1993 Ruth Klüger * 1994 Thomas Lehr * 1995 Klaus Händl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Salzburg State
Salzburg (, ; , also known as ''Salzburgerland''; ) is an Austria, Austrian Federal states of Austria, federal state. In German it is called a , a German-to-English dictionary translates that to ''federal state'' and the European Commission calls it a ''province''. In German, its official name is , to distinguish it from its eponymous capital Salzburg. For centuries, it was an independent Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg, Prince-Bishopric of the Holy Roman Empire. It borders Germany and Italy. Geography Location Salzburg State covers an area of . It stretches along its main river — the Salzach – which rises in the Central Eastern Alps in the south to the Alpine foothills in the north. It is located in the north-west of Austria, close to the border with the German state of Bavaria; to the northeast lies the federal state Upper Austria; to the east the federal state Styria; to the south the federal states Carinthia (state), Carinthia and Tyrol (federal state), Tyrol. With 561,7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Alain Claude Sulzer
Alain Claude Sulzer (born 17 February 1953) is a Swiss writer and translator. He was born in Riehen, near Basel. Sulzer became a librarian, but also translated from French, for example parts of Julien Green's diaries. As a journalist he wrote for various newspapers and magazines, including the ''NZZ''. He has published more than ten books and has won several literary awards in the process, such as the Rauris Literature Prize (1984), or the Hermann-Hesse-Preis (2009). His novel ''A Perfect Waiter'' won the Prix Medicis Etranger and the and has been translated into several languages. Another novel ''Aus den Fugen'' has also met with critical and commercial success and is set to be translated into English. ''Die Jugend ist ein fremdes Land'', was published in September 2017 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch. He lives with his partner, the theatre actor Georg Martin Bode, in Basel, Alsace and Berlin. Awards * 1984 Rauris Literature Prize for ''Das Erwachsenengerüst'' * 2008 Prix Medicis Etr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Thomas Lehr
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Idaho * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts and entertainment * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel), a 1969 novel by Hes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ruth Klüger
Ruth Klüger (30 October 1931 – 6 October 2020) was Professor Emerita of German Studies at the University of California, Irvine and a Holocaust survivor. She was the author of the bestseller (English translation by the author: ''Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered'') about her childhood in Vienna and in Nazi concentration camps. Biography Ruth Klüger was born on 30 October 1931 in Vienna. In March 1938, Hitler marched into Vienna. The annexation of Austria by the Nazis deeply affected Klüger's life: Klüger, who then was only six years old, had to change schools frequently and grew up in an increasingly hostile and anti-Semitic environment. Her father, a Jewish gynaecologist, lost his license and was later sent to prison for performing an illegal abortion. In September 1942, she was deported to Theresienstadt at the age of 10, together with her mother; her father had tried to flee abroad, but was detained and murdered. One year later she was transferred to Auschwitz, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sabine Scholl
The Sabines (, , , ; ) were an Italic people who lived in the central Apennine Mountains (see Sabina) of the ancient Italian Peninsula, also inhabiting Latium north of the Anio before the founding of Rome. The Sabines divided into two populations just after the founding of Rome, which is described by Roman legend. The division, however it came about, is not legendary. The population closer to Rome transplanted itself to the new city and united with the preexisting citizenry, beginning a new heritage that descended from the Sabines but was also Latinized. The second population remained a mountain tribal state, coming finally to war against Rome for its independence along with all the other Italic tribes. Afterwards, it became assimilated into the Roman Republic. Etymology The Sabines derived directly from the ancient Umbrians and belonged to the same ethnic group as the Samnites and the Sabelli, as attested by the common ethnonyms of ''Safineis'' (in ancient Greek ) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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] [Amazon] |
Judith Kuckart
The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book included in the Septuagint and the Catholic Church, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Christian Old Testament of the Bible but Development of the Hebrew Bible canon, excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to the Biblical apocrypha, apocrypha. It tells of a Judaism, Jewish widow, Judith, who uses her beauty and charm to kill an Neo-Assyrian Empire, Assyrian general who has besieged her city, Bethulia. With this act, she saves nearby Jerusalem from total destruction. The name Judith (), meaning "praised" or "Jewess", is the feminine form of Judah (son of Jacob), Judah. The surviving manuscripts of Greek translations appear to contain several historical anachronisms, which is why some Protestant scholars now consider the book ahistorical. Instead, the book is classified as a parable, Theological fiction, theological novel, or even the first Historical fiction#Historical novel, historical novel. The Cat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Thomas Hettche
Thomas Hettche (born 30 November 1964 in Treis, Hesse) is a German author. Hettche completed his ''Abitur'' at the Liebigschule Giessen, He studied German studies and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and completed his PhD in philosophy. ''What We Are Made Of'', an English translation by Shaun Whiteside of Hettche's novel ''Woraus wir gemacht sind'' (2006), was published by Picador in Britain in July 2008, and in the United States in October 2010.Pitt, David (15 September 2010). "What We Are Made Of" (review). ''Booklist''. p. 33. Retrieved via ''Biography In Context'' database, 6 May 2019. Since 2018, he has been honorary professor at the TU Berlin. Hettche lives in Berlin. Awards * 1990 Rauris Literature Prize * 2014 Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize * 2015 Solothurner Literaturpreis * 2018 Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis * 2019 Joseph-Breitbach-Preis Memberships * 1999 PEN Centre Germany * 2019 Academy of Arts, Berlin The Academy o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Norbert Gstrein
Norbert Gstrein (born 1961) is an Austrian writer. He was born in Mils in Tyrol, the son of the hotelier and ski school director Norbert Gstrein (1931–1988) and Maria Gstrein, née Thurner (born 1935). He grews up with his five siblings in and attended the secondary school from 1971 to 1979 in Imst. From 1979 to 1984, Gstrein studied mathematics in Innsbruck, Stanford and Erlangen. He not completed his PhD (no defense of his thesis ''Zur Logik der Fragen'') in 1988 at the University of Innsbruck, under the supervision of Roman Liedl and Gerhard Frey. Gstrein is the author of more than a dozen books, including ''Winters in the South'', translated into English by Anthea Bell and Julian Evans, and ''A Sense of the Beginning'', translated by Julian Evans. Gstrein's novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages. His early books were all based in his native Tyrol. Among his numerous awards are the Alfred Döblin Prize and the Uwe Johnson Prize. Gstrein lives as a fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Werner Fritsch
Werner may refer to: People * Werner (name), origin of the name and people with this name as surname and given name Fictional characters * Werner (comics), a German comic book character * Werner Von Croy, a fictional character in the ''Tomb Raider'' series * Werner von Strucker, a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe * Werner, a fictional character in '' Darwin's Soldiers'' * Werner Ziegler, a fictional character from tv show Better Call Saul Geography * Werner, West Virginia * Mount Werner, a mountain that includes the Steamboat Ski Resort, in the Park Range of Colorado * Werner (crater), a crater in the south-central highlands of the Moon * Werner projection, an equal-area map projection preserving distances along parallels, central meridian and from the North pole Companies * Carsey-Werner, an American television and film production studio * Werner Enterprises, a Nebraska-based trucking company * Werner Co., a manufacturer of ladders * Werner Motors, an early au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gisela Corleis
Gisela may refer to: People * Gisela (name) Full name * Gisela, Abbess of Chelles (757–810), daughter of Pepin the Short, sister of Charlemagne ** Gisela, daughter of Charlemagne (781–808) * Gisela, daughter of Louis the Pious (born 821), consort of Eberhard of Friuli * Gisela of France, also Gisella or Giséle ( 911), traditionally, a daughter to the king of France, Charles the Simple and a consort of Rollo * Gisela of Burgundy ( 975 – 1006), daughter of Conrad, king of Burgundy ** Gisela of Hungary (c. 985 - 1065), her daughter * Gisela of Swabia (989 or 990 – 1043), Holy Roman Empress, wife of Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor * Archduchess Gisela of Austria (1856–1932), daughter to Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Elisabeth of Bavaria, named after Giselle of Bavaria * Gisela (singer) (born 1979), Spanish singer Other uses * Gisela, Arizona, a US census-designated place * ''Gisela'' (magazine) See also * Gisella, a name * Giselle (other) ''Giselle'' is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Eva Schmidt
Eva or EVA may refer to: * Eva (name), a feminine given name Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Eva (Dynamite Entertainment), a comic book character * Eva (''Devil May Cry''), in the ''Devil May Cry'' video game series * Eva (''Metal Gear''), in the ''Metal Gear'' video games series * Eva Mapendo, in 2018 romantic drama series '' Ngayon at Kailanman'', portrayed by Julia Barretto * Evangelion (mecha), in the ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' franchise Films * ''Eva'' (1948 film), a Swedish film * ''Eva'' (1953 film), a Greek drama film * ''Eva'' (1958 film), an Austrian film * ''Eva'' (1962 film), a French-Italian film in English * ''Eva'' (2010 film), an English-language Romanian film * ''Eva'' (2011 film), a Spanish film * ''Eva'' (2018 film), a French film * ''Eva'' (2023 film), a Malaysian film Music Artists * Eva (singer), German pop singer (1943-2020) * Eva Narcissus Boyd (Little Eva), American singer (1943–2003) * Banda Eva, a Brazilian axé ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
