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Uwe Johnson Prize
The Uwe Johnson Prize is an annual German literary award. The award is named after the writer Uwe Johnson (1934–1984) and was first awarded in 1994. It is awarded for "outstanding literary works in which there are links to the poetics of Uwe Johnson". Alternating the main prize for a work and the Förderpreis (promotional prize) for the best debut is awarded by the Mecklenburg Literature Society, the Nordkurier (1994–2016), the Berlin law firm Gentz und Partner (since 2012) and the Humanistischer Verband Deutschlands (since 2017). The prize is endowed with €20,000 (Förderpreis: €5,000). Recipients * 1994: Kurt Drawert ''Spiegelland. Ein deutscher Monolog'' * 1995: Walter Kempowski for ''Das Echolot'' * 1997: Marcel Beyer for ''Flughunde'' * 1999: Gert Neumann for ''Anschlag'' * 2003: Norbert Gstrein for ''Das Handwerk des Tötens'' * 2005: Arno Orzessek for ''Schattauers Tochter'' (Förderpreis) * 2006: for ''Späte Reise'' * 2007: Emma Braslavsky for ''Aus dem Sinn' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uwe Johnson
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Uwe or UWE may refer to * Uwe (given name) * University of the West of England, Bristol * UML-based web engineering * University Würzburg's Experimental miniaturized satellites for space research UWE-1 and UWE-2 * Uwe - Wreck in Blankenese Blankenese () is a suburban quarter in the borough of Altona in the western part of Hamburg, Germany; until 1938 it was an independent municipality in Holstein. It is located on the right bank of the Elbe river. With a population of 13,637 as of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Zander
Judith Zander (born 13 November 1980 in Anklam, Germany) is a German writer and translator. Life Zander studied German and English studies as well as History in Greifswald. Subsequently, she studied creative writing at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig. She works as a translator and has translated several books by Sylvia Plath, among others. Her own writing includes prose and poetry. For her debut novel, Zander was nominated for the German Book Prize in 2010. Her work has won her numerous awards. For her poetry collection, ''im ländchen sommer im winter zur see'' (''In the Countryside Summer in Winter at Sea''), she won the Peter Huchel Prize in 2023. She is a member of the PEN Centre Germany. Zander lives in Jüterbog. Works * ''Dinge, die wir heute sagten''. Roman. dtv, München 2010, . * ''oder tau''. Gedichte. dtv, München 2011, . * ''manual numerale''. Gedichte. dtv, München 2014, . * ''Cactaceae.'' Sachbuch. With photographies by Johanna Ruebel. Matt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Erpenbeck
Jenny Erpenbeck (born 12 March 1967) is a German writer and opera director, recipient of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Life Born in East Berlin, Erpenbeck is the daughter of the physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck and the Arabic translator Doris Kilias. Her grandparents are the authors Fritz Erpenbeck and Hedda Zinner. In Berlin she attended an Advanced High School, where she graduated in 1985. She then completed a two-year apprenticeship as a bookbinder before working at several theaters as props and wardrobe supervisor. From 1988 to 1990 Erpenbeck studied theatre at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1990 she changed her studies to Music Theater Director (studying with, among others, Ruth Berghaus, Heiner Müller and Peter Konwitschny) at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory. After the successful completion of her studies in 1994, with a production of Béla Bartók's opera ''Duke Bluebeard's Castle'' in her parish church and in the Kunsthaus Tac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Zeit
''Die Zeit'' (, "The Time") is a German national weekly newspaper published in Hamburg in Germany. The newspaper is generally considered to be among the German newspapers of record and is known for its long and extensive articles. History The first edition of ''Die Zeit'' was first published in Hamburg on 21 February 1946. The founding publishers were Gerd Bucerius, Lovis H. Lorenz, Richard Tüngel and Ewald Schmidt di Simoni. Another important founder was Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, who joined as an editor in 1946. She became publisher of ''Die Zeit'' from 1972 until her death in 2002, together from 1983 onwards with former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, later joined by Josef Joffe and former German federal secretary of culture Michael Naumann. The paper's publishing house, Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius in Hamburg, is owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and Dieter von Holtzbrinck Media. The paper is published weekly on Thursdays. As of 2018, ''Die Zeit'' has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Quaderer
Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thirteenth child and twelfth and youngest son) in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He was also the progenitor of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin. Unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan according to biblical narrative. In the Samaritan Pentateuch, Benjamin's name appears as "Binyamēm" (Samaritan Hebrew: , "son of days"). In the Quran, Benjamin is referred to as a righteous young child, who remained with Jacob when the older brothers plotted against Joseph. Later rabbinic traditions name him as one of four ancient Israelites who died without sin, the other three being Chileab, Jesse and Amram. Name The name is first mentioned in letters from King Sîn-kāšid of Uruk (1801–1771 BC), who called himself “King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Liebmann
Irina Liebmann is a German journalist-author and sinologist of Russo-German provenance. She has won a number of important literary prizes: the most significant of these, probably, was the 2008 Leipzig Book Fair non-fiction Prize, awarded for "Wäre es schön? Es wäre schön!", a biography of her father, a noted anti-Nazi activist and political exile in Warsaw and Moscow who, after 1945, returned to what became, in 1949, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and in 1953, despite his longstanding record of communist activism, emerged as an uncompromising critic of the East German leader Walter Ulbricht: he was expelled from the party and suffered various other government mandated public indignities. She grew up and lived the first part of her adult life in the German Democratic Republic, but succeeded in moving to West Berlin during 1988, thereby anticipating reunification by more than a year. Life Irina Herrnstadt was born at the height of the Second Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenah Cusanit
Qena ( ar, قنا ' , locally: ; cop, ⲕⲱⲛⲏ ''Konē'') is a city in Upper Egypt, and the capital of the Qena Governorate. Situated on the east bank of the Nile, it was known in antiquity as Kaine (Greek Καινή, meaning "new (city)"; Latinized transliteration: Caene) and Maximianopolis. Gauthier identifies Qena with ancient Shabt. Overview This provincial capital is located about 95 km from El Balyana and 63 km north of Luxor. It is most famous for its proximity to the ruins of Dendara. It owes its modern prosperity to the opening of the Wadi Qena towards the Red Sea, which is a major traffic route between Upper Egypt and the Red Sea. Tourists traveling between Luxor and the Red Sea will assuredly pass through this city since there is only one good road connection. Qena is noted for its pottery. Qena is also known for its beautiful huge mountains and green nature. Qena also has one of the highest concentration of Coptic Christians in Egypt (approximately 35% of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralf Rothmann
Ralf Rothmann (born May 10, 1953 in Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein) is a German novelist, poet, and dramatist. His novels have been translated into several languages with Knife Edge (''Messers Schneide'') and Young Light (''Junges Licht'') being translated into English. Main subject of his work are both the bourgeois and proletarian reality of life in the Ruhr Metropolitan area (e.g., ''Stier'', ''Wäldernacht'', ''Milch und Kohle'') as well as Berlin (''Flieh mein Freund'', ''Hitze'', ''Feuer brennt nicht'') with an autobiographically colored focus on alienation, the attempt to escape these situations, and common solitude. His novel "Feuer brennt nicht" (2009) is a very moving portrait of an artist-writer torn between two women paying a high price for his infidelity. It is now (2012) available in English translation as "Fire doesn't burn" published by Seagull Books. Works * ''Messers Schneide'' (stories). 1986. - engl. edition as ''Knife Edge''. 1992 * ''Kratzer und andere Ged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shida Bazyar
Shida may refer to: *Shida (artist) (born 1990), Australian artist * Shida, Taipei, a neighborhood of Taipei, Taiwan (師大) **The neighborhood's night market, Shida Night Market *China University of Petroleum (Huadong), China (石大) * Shida District, Miyagi, Miyagi, Japan (志田) * Shida District, Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan (志太) * Shida Hikaru is a Japanese professional wrestler, martial artist, actress, and model, currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where she is a former and the longest-reigning AEW Women's World Champion. On February 25, 2021, she became the longest reign ..., (志田 光) (born June 1988), Japanese professional wrestler, martial artist, actress, and model See also * Shiida (other) {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirna Funk
Mirna Funk (born 1981 in Berlin) is a German journalist, author and individualist feminist. Life Funk studied philosophy and history at Humboldt University of Berlin. She is currently working as a freelance journalist for works such as ''Der Freitag'' and ''Zeit Magazin'' and publishes texts on culture, society and the arts. In the summer of 2014, she contributed interviews from Israel to ''Zeit Magazine'' and wrote about her life there during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict. In her article "Ohne mich" ithout MeFunk wrote about antisemitism and her emigration to Israel. On 23 July 2015, S. Fischer Verlag published her debut novel ''Winternähe''. Funk received the Uwe Johnson Prize in 2015. In 2022, she finished her work ''Who Cares? Von der Freiheit, Frau zu sein'', in which she promotes an individualist, sex-positive feminism with several anecdotes of her life. She is the great-granddaughter of the renowned writer Stephan Hermlin Stephan Hermlin (; 13 April 1915 – 6 A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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