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Roswitha Prize
The Roswitha Prize (german: Roswitha-Preis) is the oldest German language prize for literature that is given solely to women. The Roswitha-Medal has been given almost yearly since 1973 by the city of Bad Gandersheim. In 1998 it received its modern designation along with an endowment of €5,500. It is named for Roswitha of Gandersheim, a 10th-century Benedictine nun who is considered the first female German playwright and author. List of Recipients *1973 Marie-Luise Kaschnitz *1974 Hilde Domin *1975 Ilse Aichinger *1976 Elisabeth Borchers *1977 Dagmar Nick *1978 Elfriede Jelinek *1979 Luise Rinser *1980 Rose Ausländer *1981 Hilde Spiel *1982 Friederike Mayröcker *1983 Sarah Kirsch *1984 Greta Schoon *1985 Irmtraud Morgner *1986 Ulla Hahn *1987 Irina Korschunow *1988 Gerlind Reinshagen *1989 Helga M. Novak *1990 Herta Müller *1991 No Award *1992 Helga Königsdorf *1993 Christa Reinig *1994 Monika Maron *1995 Libuse Monikova *1996 Gisela von Wysocki *1997 No Award *199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Language
German ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and Official language, official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italy, Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch language, Dutch, English language, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots language, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic languages, North Germanic group, such as Danish lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irmtraud Morgner
Irmtraud Morgner, (22 August 19336 May 1990), was a German writer, best known for works of magical realism concerned predominantly with the role of gender in East German society. Life Irmtraud Morgner was born in 1933 in Chemnitz, the daughter of a railroad engineer. She took her Abitur in 1952, before studying ''Germanistik'' (German studies) and Literary studies at Leipzig until 1956. She worked for the magazine ''neue deutsche literatur'' (New German Literature, a journal noted for a degree of confrontation with East German cultural policy) until 1958, after which she lived as a freelance author. Morgner's first marriage was to Joachim Schreck, later an editor at the publishers Aufbau-Verlag. She gave birth to a son in 1967. Morgner and Schreck divorced in 1970. She married again in 1972, to Paul Wiens, a fellow poet and author. Wiens, like many thousands in East German, was an 'unofficial employee' of the Stasi and informed on Morgner throughout their marriage. They divorced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Bovenschen
Silvia Bovenschen (5 March 1946 in Point bei Waakirchen, Upper Bavaria — 25 October 2017 in Berlin) was a German feminist literary critic, author and essayist. History Bovenschen was the daughter of a public limited company director. She grew up in Frankfurt am Main, where she later studied literature, sociology and philosophy. In the course of the protests of 1968, she co-founded the women's council of the Socialist German Student Union. In 1979, she earned a doctorate from the Goethe University Frankfurt with her work ''Die imaginierte Weiblichkeit'' ("The imagined femininity"). This essay is regarded as a standard work of feminism. In her mid-twenties, she found out she had multiple sclerosis. However, she taught at the Goethe University Frankfurt for twenty years before she had to stop because of her illness. In 2003, she moved to Berlin and started writing novels. Her best-seller ''Älter werden. Notizen.'' was released in 2006. In 2011, Bovenschen was elected a membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birgit Vanderbeke
Birgit Vanderbeke (8 August 1956 – 24 December 2021) was a German writer. Biography Born in Dahme, East Germany, Vanderbeke grew up in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, after her family moved to West Germany in 1961. Vanderbeke studied Law, Germanic and Romance languages. The English translation of her debut novel, ', by Jamie Bulloch was published in 2013 by Peirene Press as ''The Mussel Feast''. Since 1993 she has been living in southern France. She died on 24 December 2021, at age of 65. Works * ', narrative. Rotbuch, Berlin 1990, (1993 als ''Rotbuch-Taschenbuch'', Band 77, / als ''Fischer-TB'' Band 13 783, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ). ** Translation: ''The Mussel Feast'', translator: Jamie Bulloch, Peirene, London 2013, * ''Fehlende Teile'', narrative. Rotbuch, Berlin 1992, . * ''Gut genug'', narrative. Rotbuch, Berlin 1993, (1996 als ''Rotbuch-Taschenbuch'', Band 1030, / als ''Fischer-Taschenbuch'' Band 13 785, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ). * ''Ic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carola Stern
Carola Stern ( 14 November 1925 – 19 January 2006) was the name under which Erika Assmus reinvented herself as a serious journalist and (subsequently) author and politically committed television presenter, after she was obliged to relocate at short notice from East Germany to West Germany in 1951. She was a co-founder of the German section of the Human Rights organisation, Amnesty International. She was held in high regard by her fellow writers, and was the vice-president of the energetic German Section of PEN International between 1987 and 1995, after which she became a PEN "Honorary President". Biography Early years Carola Stern was born at Ahlbeck on the Baltic Island of Usedom, at that time wholly in Germany, on 14 November 1925. Her father, a civil servant, died before she was born. Her widowed mother ran a guest house. During the Nazi years she was a group leader in the League of German Girls (BDM/''"Bund Deutscher Mädel"''), membership of which, as sources are q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisela Von Wysocki
Gisela is the name of: People 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 (fl. 911), traditionally, a daughter to the king of France, Charles the Simple and a consort of Rollo * Gisela of Burgundy (c. 975 – 21 July 1006), daughter of Conrad, king of Burgundy ** Gisela of Hungary (c. 985 - 7 May 1065), her daughter * Gisela of Swabia (989 or 990 – 14 February 1043), Holy Roman Empress, wife of Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor * Archduchess Gisela of Austria (12 July 1856 – 27 July 1932), daughter to Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Elisabeth of Bavaria, named after Giselle of Bavaria * Gisela (singer) (born January 1, 1979), a Spanish singer Given name * Gisela (name) Other * Gisela, Arizona, a US census-designated place * Gisela (magazine) {{disam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libuše Moníková
Libuše Moníková (30 August 1945 in Prague – 12 January 1998 in Berlin) was a Czech writer, publishing in the German language. In 1968, following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, she left to Western Germany. Awards * 1987: Alfred Döblin Prize for ''Die Fassade''. * 1989: Franz Kafka Prize (Klosterneuberg) * 1991, Adelbert von Chamisso Prize. * 1993: Vilenica Literature Prize * 1994: Mainzer Stadtschreiber * 1995: Roswitha Prize * 1997: Medal of Merit (Czech Republic) The Medal of Merit ( cz, Medaile Za zásluhy) is an award of the Czech Republic which comes in three grades, the First Grade being the highest. It is awarded to people for service to the Republic in a number of different public areas, including: ... * 1997: Cross of Merit (Germany) Works Novels * ''Eine Schädigung.'' Rotbuch, Berlin 1981, ; Hanser, München 2003, . * ''Pavane für eine verstorbene Infantin.'' Rotbuch, Berlin 1983, dtv, München 1988, . * ''Die Fassade.'' Hanser, München 19 ... [...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] |
Christa Reinig
Christa Reinig (6 August 1926, Berlin – 30 September 2008, Munich) was a German poet, fiction and non-fiction writer, and dramatist. She began her career in the Soviet occupation zone which became East Berlin, was banned there, after publishing in West Germany, and moved to the West in 1964, settling in Munich. She was openly lesbian. Her works are marked by black humor, and irony. Life and career Reinig was raised in eastern Berlin by her mother, Wilhelmine Reinig, who was a cleaning woman.Madeleine Marti, tr. Joey HorsleyChrista Reinig Biographies, FemBio After the end of the Second World War, Reinig was a ''Trümmerfrau'', and worked in a factory. She also sold flowers on the ''Alexanderplatz'' in the 1940s."Vergessene Ikone der feministischen Literatur: Zum Tod der Schrift ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helga Königsdorf
Helga Königsdorf (13 July 1938 – 4 May 2014) was an East German author and physicist. Life She was born in Gera, a farmer's daughter. She went into academia and was appointed to the East Berlin Academy of Sciences of the GDR from 1961 to 1990. Since 1974, she headed the Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics. At age 40, she published her first short-story collection ''Meine ungehörigen Träume'' ("My Indecent Dreams"). Her writing peers included Christa Wolf, Brigitte Reimann and Maxie Wander, who worked on woman's rights issues in the GDR in the 70s and 80s. In 1990 she left academia to devote herself to writing full-time. Helga lived with Parkinson's disease for more than 30 years. Awards *1985 Heinrich Mann Prize *1992 Roswitha Prize Works Fiction *''Meine ungehörigen Träume'' (short stories, 1978), Aufbau-Verlag *''Der Lauf der Dinge'' (short stories, 1982), Aufbau-Verlag *''Respektloser Umgang'' (short stories, 1986), Aufbau-Verlag *''Lichtverhä ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herta Müller
Herta Müller (; born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Nițchidorf (german: Nitzkydorf, link=no), Timiș County in Romania, her native language is German. 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 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 Soviet Gulags during the Soviet occupation of Romania for use as German forced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
