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Hermann-Hesse-Preis
The Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis is a literary prize of Germany in honour of German-born Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse. The award is presented in Karlsruhe. The prize sum is 15,000 Euros. Previous winners include Martin Walser, Hubert Fichte, Rafik Schami, Adolf Muschg, and Alain Claude Sulzer. Not to be confused with the Calw Hermann Hesse Prize or the prize of the Internationale Hermann-Hesse-Gesellschaft (unofficial English name: ''International Hermann Hesse Society''), which was awarded for the first time in 2017. Recipients The following have received the prize: * 1957: Martin Walser for ''Ehen in Philippsburg'' * 1962: Ernst Augustin for ''Der Kopf' * 1965: Hubert Fichte for ''Das Waisenhaus'' * 1968: Hans Saner for ''Kants Weg vom Krieg zum Frieden'' * 1971: Mario Szenessy for ''Lauter falsche Pässe'' * 1974: Adolf Muschg for ''Albissers Grund'' * 1977: Dieter Kühn for ''Ich, Wolkenstein'' * 1980: Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer for ''Die Spaltung'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calw Hermann Hesse Prize
The Calw Hermann Hesse Prize is a literary prize awarded since 1990. It is named after the German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter Hermann Hesse. Alternating every year since 2017, the International Hermann Hesse Prize of the Foundation (awarded by the , worth: €15,000) and the Hermann Hesse Prize of the International Hermann Hesse Society (worth: €10,000) are awarded in Calw. The first prize is awarded for "a literary achievement of international standing in connection with its translation". The latter is intended to promote the examination of the work of the poet, who was born in Calw in 1877. In 2017, the first recipient was Adolf Muschg. Recipients * 1990 literary magazine: "Verwendung" – editor Egmont Hesse, Berlin * 1992 translator: , Moscow * 1994 literary magazine: "Schreibheft" – editor Norbert Wehr, Essen * 1996 translator: , Norway * 1998 literary magazine: "Am Erker" – editors Joachim Feldmann, Rudolf Gier, Michael Kofort, Münster * 2000 translator: Jea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Pehnt
Annette Pehnt (born 1967 in Cologne) is a German writer and literary critic. She lives in Freiburg in Baden-Württemberg. After graduating from school in 1986 Pehnt performed voluntary social work in Belfast. After a year living in Scotland, she studied English, Celtic studies and German language and literature at the University of Cologne, University of Galway, University of California, Berkeley and University of Freiburg. After her master's degree and the first national examination in 1994, graduation followed in 1997 at the University of Freiburg with a work on Irish literature. Since 1992 Pehnt, married and mother of three children, has lived as a literature critic and self-employed author in Freiburg and teaches at the University of Hildesheim, where she leads the Institut für Literarisches Schreiben & Literaturwissenschaft. Awards * 2001 * 2002 Preis der Jury des Ingeborg-Bachmann-Wettbewerbs * 2004 Großes Stipendium des Darmstädter Literaturfonds * 2008 Thaddäus-T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Ulrich Treichel
Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Treichel (born 12 August 1952) is a Germanist, novelist and poet. His earliest published books were collections of poetry, but prose writing has become a larger part of his output since the critical and commercial success of his first novel ''Der Verlorene'' (translated into English as ''Lost''). Treichel has also worked as an opera librettist, most prominently in collaboration with the composer Hans Werner Henze. Early life and education Hans-Ulrich Treichel was born in Versmold in Westphalia in 1952 and lived there until 1968. After graduating from high school in Hanau, he studied German philology, philosophy and political science at the Free University of Berlin, where he earned his doctorate in 1983 with a thesis on Wolfgang Koeppen. He habilitated in 1993 and from 1995 to March 2018 taught as Professor for German literature at the ''Deutsche Literaturinstitut'' Leipzig''.'' (German literature institute) Career Treichel became known in particula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Kracht
Christian Kracht (; born 29 December 1966) is a Swiss author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages. Personal life Kracht was born in Saanen in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. He attended Schule Schloss Salem in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and Lakefield College School in Ontario, Canada. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, New York, in 1989. He has lived for long spells in Buenos Aires, Lamu, Florence, Bangkok, Kathmandu, Landour, Los Angeles and Munich. He is married to German film director Frauke Finsterwalder. They live in Zurich. Kracht´s father, Christian Kracht Sr., was chief representative for the Axel Springer publishing company in the 1960s. Journalism and collaborative work Before becoming a novelist, Kracht worked as a journalist for a number of magazines and newspapers in Germany, including '' Der Spiegel''. In the mid-1990s he lived and worked in New Delhi as Spiegel's Indian correspondent. Kracht then moved to Bangkok, from where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Karl Hesse (; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include ''Demian'', '' Steppenwolf'', '' Siddhartha'', and '' The Glass Bead Game'', each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Life and work Family background Hermann Karl Hesse was born on 2 July 1877 in the Black Forest town of Calw in Württemberg, German Empire. His grandparents served in India at a mission under the auspices of the Basel Mission, a Protestant Christian missionary society. His grandfather Hermann Gundert compiled a Malayalam grammar and a Malayalam-English dictionary, and also contributed to a translation of the Bible into Malayalam in South India. Hesse's mother, Marie Gundert, was born at such a mission in South India in 1842. In describing her own childhood, she said, "A happy child I was not..." As was usual among mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natascha Wodin
Natascha Wodin (born 8 December 1945) is a German writer of Ukrainian origin. She was born in Fürth, Bavaria in 1945 to parents who had been forced labourers under the Nazi regime. She grew up in a camp for displaced persons. Following her mother's suicide, she was raised in a Catholic home for girls. She worked as a telephone operator and stenographer before becoming an interpreter and translator of Russian in the early 1970s. Wodin has translated literary works from Russian into German and has lived in Moscow. She has written novels, short stories and poetry, and has won many prizes, including the Adelbert-von-Chamisso Prize in 1998, the Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau in 1989 and 2009, the Alfred Döblin Prize in 2015 and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2017 for ''Sie kam aus Mariupol'', one of her best known books. Her book ''Irgendwo in diesem Dunkel'' is a memoir of her father. She was married to the novelist Wolfgang Hilbig, an experience which she recounts i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
The Dead (Kracht Novel)
''The Dead'' () is a 2016 gothic novel by the Swiss writer Christian Kracht, his fifth novel when it was released. It is set in the film industry at the end of the Weimar era and tells the story of a (fictional) Swiss director, Emil Nägeli, and a Japanese government official (Masahiko Amakasu) who try to create a collaboration between German and Japanese cinema. The plot centers around the May 15 Incident. The narrative is structured like a Noh play with three acts. The language is inspired by the works of Thomas Mann, with many archaic words and expressions. As in all historiographic metafiction, there are historic characters acting out of time and character – one of the protagonists is a highly unsympathetic Charlie Chaplin, while there are longer appearances by Lotte Eisner, Ernst Hanfstaengel, Siegfried Kracauer and Fritz Lang. In telling the story of cinema’s development from silent to sound film, the novel considers the issue of "performance" – both in terms of in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 a number of 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 theater actor Georg Martin Bode, in Basel, Alsace and Berlin. Awards * 1984 Rauris Literature Prize The Rauris Literature Prize () is an annual Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlene Streeruwitz
Marlene Streeruwitz (born 28 June 1950) is an Austrian playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. Biography Born in Baden bei Wien in 1950, Streeruwitz was raised in a well-to-do family. Her father was a politician and later became mayor. She studied law and Slavic languages at Vienna University but interrupted her studies to get married and raise a family. Her divorce triggered her interest in writing, although she did not think of publishing anything for the next 14 years. She gained fame first as the author of the radio play ''Kaiserklamm.Und.Kirchenwirt'' (1989) and even more so when ''Waikiki-Beach'' and ''Sloane Square'' proved extremely successful when staged in Cologne. Streeruwitz has also become known as a poet, reading her own works such as ''Sein. Und Schein. Und Erscheinen'' (1997) and ''Können. Mögen. Dürfen. Sollen. Wollen. Müssen. Lassen'' (1998) in Tübingen and Frankfurt. Awards Streeruwitz has received many awards for her work including the Herma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Szenessy
Mario Szenessy (14 September 1930 in Veliki Bečkerek, Yugoslavia (today Zrenjanin, Serbia) – 11 October 1976 in Pinneberg, Germany) was a Hungarian-German author, translator, and literary critic. Biography Mario Szenessy grew up in the Vojvodina in a multiethnic, multilingual environment. In 1942 his family moved to Szeged, Hungary where he studied German and Slavic languages and discovered the writings of Kafka and Thomas Mann. He became a school teacher and also taught Russian at the Medical Academy, (today Szeged University). Based on his writings about Thomas Mann he received a grant by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and thus came to the University of Tübingen in 1963, where he worked on Mann's novella '' Die Betrogene.'' Later, he moved to Berlin. Encouraged by Inge and Walter Jens, Szenessy started to write in German and published his first book in 1967, ''Verwandlungskünste.'' Marcel Reich-Ranicki wrote: ''He who is not a German writes a much better German th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antje Rávic Strubel
Antje is a female name. It is a Low German and Dutch diminutive form of Anna. Once a very common name in the northern part of the Netherlands, its popularity has steadily declined since 1900. at the database of given names in the Netherlands. People * Antje "Nina" Baanders-Kessler (1915–2002), Dutch sculptor and medalist * (born 1947), German politician, member of the Christian Democratic Union *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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