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Brothers Grimm Poetics Professorship
The Brothers Grimm Poetics Professorship is a visiting professorship established within the University of Kassel since the summer semester of 1985. The honor is given to writers and filmmakers as well as to cultural workers from the fields of theater, art and culture. The award is traditionally associated with a public poetry lecture, a public reading and a poetry seminar for Kassel students. Namesakes are the Brothers Grimm The Brothers Grimm ( or ), Jacob Grimm, Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm (1786–1859), were Germans, German academics who together collected and published folklore. The brothers are among the best-known storytellers of Oral tradit ..., who lived in Kassel. Recipients * 1985 – Dieter Kühn * 1986/87 – Tankred Dorst * 1988 – * 1990 – * 1991/92 – Oskar Pastior * 1993/94 – * 1996 – Sarah Kirsch * 1998 – Herta Müller * 2000 – Volker Braun * 2001 – * 2002 – Christoph Hein * 2003 – Marlene Streeruwitz * 2004 – Friedri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Kassel
The University of Kassel () is a university founded in 1971 located in Kassel, Hessen, in central Germany. As of February 2022 it had about 25,000 students and about 3300 staff, including more than 300 professors. A special unit (Studienkolleg) prepares international students for their period of study (language and academic skills). International students come from over 115 countries. Each academic year, more than 100 visiting scholars pursue research projects in cooperation with colleagues from the University of Kassel, making a valuable contribution to the academic and cultural life. The newly established International House is located on the campus. It offers hostels for international guests and is available for meetings, conferences, and cultural events. Precincts In addition to the central campus Holländischer Platz, the University of Kassel has the other campuses Heinrich-Plett-Straße, Menzelstraße, Wilhelmshöher Allee and Damaschkestraße in Kassel as well as tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafik Schami
Rafik Schami () (born Suheil Fadel ()Clauer, Markus (n.d.) (trans. by Jonathan Uhlaner) Goethe Institut. 23 June 1946) is a Syrian-German author, storyteller and critic. Biography Born in Syria in 1946, Schami is the son of a baker from a Christian Aramean (Syriac) family. His family originated from the town of Maaloula. After attending a monastery boarding school in Lebanon, he studied chemistry, mathematics, and physics in Damascus. In 1970, he left Syria for Lebanon to evade censorship and the military draft; the following year, he moved to Germany. There, Schami continued his studies in chemistry while working odd jobs, obtaining a doctorate in 1979. From 1965, Schami began writing stories in Arabic. From 1964 to 1970, he was the co-founder and editor of the wall news-sheet ''Al-Muntalak'' (''The Starting-Point'') in the old quarter of Damascus. Later in Germany, in his spare time, he co-founded the literary group Südwind in 1980 and was part of the PoLiKunst movement. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Dörrie
Doris Dörrie (; born 26 May 1955) is a German film director, producer and author. Early life and education Born in Hanover, Dörrie completed her secondary education there in 1973. The same year, she began a two-year attendance in film studies in the drama department of the University of the Pacific (United States), University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She then studied at the New School of Social Research in New York. She worked odd jobs in cafés and as a film presenter in New York's Goethe-Institut. In 1975, back in West Germany, Dörrie began to study at the University of Television and Film Munich. Career Dörrie wrote film reviews for the ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'', where she was also assistant editor. Subsequently, Dörrie worked as a volunteer for various television stations, and filmed short documentaries. She has published several novels, short story collections and children's books, and also staged and directed a number of operas. Awards *1999 Bavarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Börsenblatt
The "" (English: Weekly magazine for the German book trade), until 2002 "" (English: Trade exchange newspaper for the German book trade), is the association organ of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels. The publication, founded in 1834, is the magazine with the highest number of advertisements and circulation in the German book selling trade. It came out once a week, later twice a week, and even daily for many years. The is published by the (English: Marketing and publishing service of the book trade). It informs the professional audience as well as private readers about news on the book market. Since January 2013, the specialist magazine has been published in weekly alternation as the "" and the "". The highlights the trends within the various product groups. Current industry reports are published on the magazine's homepage. The publishes various bestseller lists, including an audio book best list, a ''non-fiction best list'', a bestseller lists with the best-selli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terézia Mora
Terézia Mora (; born 5 February 1971) is a German Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator. Early life and education Terézia Mora was born in Sopron, Hungary, to a family with German roots and grew up bilingual. She moved to Germany after the political changes in Hungary in 1990 in order to study Hungarian studies and drama at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Subsequently, she trained as a screenwriter at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin. Career She is a member of the German PEN Center and the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, to which she was elected as a member in 2015. Since 1990 she has lived in Berlin, working as a freelance writer, writing in German, and as a translator from Hungarian. Among her works, there is a trilogy about an IT specialist, Darius Kopp, and his existential struggle. Mora is married and has one daughter. Awards and honours * 1997: Würth Literature Prize for her screenplay The Ways of Water in Erzincan and the O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicitas Hoppe
Felicitas Hoppe (born 22 December 1960) is a German writer. She received the Georg Büchner Prize in 2012. Biography Early years Felicitas Hoppe was born in Hamelin, Lower Saxony, and grew up there. After her Abitur she studied literature, rhetorics and theology: from 1982 to 1984 at the Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen, from 1984 to 1986 at the University of Oregon and from 1987 to 1990 at the Freien Universität Berlin. In 2006 she was a visiting scholar at Dartmouth College. She worked as a dramaturge and journalist. Since 1996 she has been a freelance writer living in Berlin. Career Her work often deals with transitory themes, as in "Picknick der Friseure", in a comical, but nevertheless thrilling way, which make her stories seem to be absurd. She also uses the technique of quotation for her novels, as in "Johanna", where she reconstructs the story of Joan of Arc using official case records. As a relatively young, successful and female writer, she belongs to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juli Zeh
Juli Zeh (, Julia Barbara Finck, née Zeh; born 30 June 1974) is a German writer and judge. She is known for novels such as '' The Method'' (2009), '' Unterleuten'' (2016) and '' About People'' (2021). Early life and education Juli Zeh is the daughter of the lawyer . She studied law in Passau and Leipzig, passing the Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen – comparable equivalent to the U.S. bar exam – in 2003, and holds a doctorate in international law from Saarland University. She also has a degree from the German Institute for Literature Leipzig. Career Zeh's first published novel was '' Eagles and Angels'', which received the 2002 Deutscher Bücherpreis for best debut novel. She travelled through Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2001, which became the basis for the book '' Die Stille ist ein Geräusch''. Among her other books are ''Das Land der Menschen'', ''Dark Matter'', ''Kleines Konversationslexikon für Haushunde'', '' Gaming Instinct'', ''Ein Hund läuft durch die Republik'', '' D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sven Regener
Sven Regener (born 1 January 1961) is a German musician and writer living in Berlin. In 1982 he recorded his first LP with the band ''Zatopek'' and in 1984 he joined ''Neue Liebe''. In 1985 he founded the Berlin band Element of Crime together with Jakob Friderichs. He writes almost all their lyrics as well as playing trumpet. In 2001 he published his first novel, '' Berlin Blues'' (original title '' Herr Lehmann''), which achieved sales of around one million copies. The book takes place in autumn 1989 in Berlin. In 2004, Regener was awarded the Deutscher Filmpreis for the screenplay to the film of the same name (best screenplay that has been turned into a film). His second novel, ''Neue Vahr Süd'', was released in 2004 and follows the life of Frank Lehmann while serving in the Bundeswehr The (, ''Federal Defence'') are the armed forces of the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany. The is divided into a military part (armed forces or ''Streitkräfte'') and a civil par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Maar
Paul Maar (; born 13 December 1937) is a German novelist, playwright, translator, and illustrator notable for his contributions to children's literature. Life Maar was born in Schweinfurt. After the early death of his mother he lived with his grandfather in the rural area of Theres in northern Bavaria. He went to school at the Gymnasium in Schweinfurt, and later studied at the State Academy of Arts in Stuttgart. He then worked as a stage designer and stage photographer for the Franconian castle theatre Massbach. After that he spent ten years as an art teacher. Since 1976, he has worked as a freelance writer. He lives in Bamberg with his wife and three children. Bibliography Maar is the author of a large number of novels, short stories and plays. His most read works are a series of books about Sams, a creature with red hair and a pig's nose that can grant wishes and, if it does, shows up on Sams-Day (i. e., Saturday), and the stories about the Little Kangaroo. He has also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilija Trojanow
Ilija Trojanow (Bulgarian: Илия Троянов, also transliterated as Ilya Troyanov; born 23 August 1965 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian–German writer, translator and publisher. Life and literary career Trojanow was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1965. In 1971 his family fled Bulgaria through Yugoslavia and Italy to Germany, where they received political asylum. In 1972 the family travelled on to Kenya, where Ilija's father had obtained a job as engineer. With one interruption from 1977 to 1981, Ilija Trojanow lived in Nairobi until 1984, and attended the German School Nairobi. After a stay in Paris, he studied law and ethnology at Munich University from 1985 to 1989. He interrupted these studies to found Kyrill-und-Method-Verlag in 1989, and after that Marino-Verlag in 1992, both of which specialised in African literature. In 1999 Trojanow moved to Mumbai and became intensely involved with Indian life and culture. He has lived in Cape Town, returned to Germany (Mainz), and then to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibylle Lewitscharoff
Sibylle Lewitscharoff (; 16 April 1954 – 13 May 2023) was a German author. She first wrote in her spare time as a bookkeeper, quitting after her first novel, ''Pong'', appeared in 1998. ''Pong'' was successful with critics and the public, earning her the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. It was followed by ' (2006), ' (2009) and ' (2011). She received several German literary awards, including the Georg Büchner Prize in 2013, for " e-exploringthe boundaries of what we consider our daily reality with an inexhaustible energy of observation, narrative fantasy and linguistic inventiveness.". Early life Lewitscharoff was born in Stuttgart. Her parents were Kristo Lewitscharoff, a gynecologist who had immigrated from Bulgaria, and Marianne, a German woman. She grew up with a brother, who went on to manage a Berlin-based advertising company that Lewitscharoff later worked under as a bookkeeper. Her father suffered from depression and committed suicide when she was eleven years old. She obt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Standard
''Der Standard'' () is an Austrian daily newspaper published in Vienna. It is considered a newspaper of record for Austria. 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 SE, Axel Springer acquired a stake in the paper in 1988 and sold it in 1995. Bronner remains the paper's publisher, Gerold Riedmann is editor-in-chief. ''Der Standard'' sees itself as—in a Continental European sense (socially and culturally, but not economically)—Liberalism, 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 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
