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Ina Hartwig
Ina Hartwig (born 11 July 1963) is a German writer, literature critic and academic lecturer. From July 2016, she has been ''Kulturdezernentin'' in Frankfurt, the city councillor responsible for culture and science. Early life and education Hartwig was born in Hamburg, Germany, and went to school in Lüneburg. After the ''Abitur'' () in 1983 at the , she studied romance studies and German studies at the University of Avignon and Free University of Berlin, graduating in 1990. She then received her Ph.D. at the Universität Duisburg-Essen with a dissertation about Proust, Musil, Genet and Elfriede Jelinek. Career Hartwig started her career teaching at the Free University of Berlin. In 1997, she moved to Frankfurt am Main as a journalist of the ''Frankfurter Rundschau'', where she was a features editor from 1999 to 2009. She was, together with Tilman Spengler, publisher of the journal ' from 2002 to 2004. She was a guest professor for literary criticism in St. Louis, US (2002), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline-Schlegel-Preis
The is a literary award of the city of Jena in Germany, given for outstanding work in the genres of essay and feuilleton in German. The award began with a public competition in 2000, to celebrate the (lit.: ''House of the Romantics'', the former residence of the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte) opening as a museum for literary culture. Starting from 2002, the award has been given once every three years. There is a main prize (: €5,000) and a secondary prize for early-career entrants (: €2,500). The prize money of €7,500 is funded by an anonymous private patron. Naming The award is named for the notable German freethinker Caroline Schelling, Caroline Schlegel (1763–1809), a member of the Jena Romanticism, Jena Romantics and daughter of Göttingen professor and theologist Johann David Michaelis. She contributed to the Athenaeum (German magazine), Athenaeum, an important magazine for early Romanticism founded by Friedrich Schlegel and his brother August Wilhelm Schlegel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Städelschule
The Städelschule, full name Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule, is a tertiary school of art in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It accepts about 20 students each year from around 500 applicants, and has a total of approximately 150 students of visual arts; until 2020 there were also about 50 students of architecture. About 75% of the students are not from Germany, and courses are taught in English. History The Städelschule was established by the Städel Institute in 1817, following an endowment left by Johann Friedrich Städel (1728–1816), a wealthy banker and patron of the arts. In a deed dated 15 March 1815 he left his house, his art collection and his fortune to establish a museum – now the Städel Museum – and to pay for the training in art and architecture of deserving students, in the hope that they might be "...educated to become valuable and useful citizens and artists". Städel died on 2 December 1816, and from 1817 scholarships were given out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek (; born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power". She is considered to be among the most important living playwrights of the German language. Biography Elfriede Jelinek was born on 20 October 1946 in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria, the daughter of Olga Ilona (''née'' Buchner), a personnel director, and Friedrich Jelinek. She was raised in Vienna by her Romanian-German Catholic mother and a non-observant Czech Jewish father (whose surname ''Jelínek'' means "little deer" in Czech). Her mother's family came from Stájerlakanina, Krassó-Szörény County, Banat, Kingdom of Hungary (now Anina, Romania), and was of a bourgeois background, while her father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann (; 25 June 1926 – 17 October 1973) was an Austrian poet and author. She is regarded as one of the major voices of German-language literature in the 20th century. In 1963, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by German philologist Harald Patzer. Early life and education Bachmann was born in Klagenfurt, in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the daughter of Olga (née Haas) and Matthias Bachmann, a schoolteacher. Her father was an early member of the Austrian National Socialist Party. She had a sister, Isolde, and a brother, Heinz. She studied philosophy, psychology, German philology, and law at the universities of Innsbruck, Graz, and Vienna. In 1949, she received her PhD from the University of Vienna with her dissertation titled "The Critical Reception of the Existential Philosophy of Martin Heidegger"; her thesis adviser was Victor Kraft. Career After graduating, Bachmann worked as a scriptwriter and editor at the Allied radio station ''R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Beckermann
Ruth Beckermann (born 1952) is an Austrian filmmaker and writer, who lives and works in Vienna and Paris. Her films have been shown at prestigious festivals, and ''Paper Bridge'' and ''East of War'' won several major awards. Early life and education Ruth Beckermann was born in Vienna, Austria in 1952. Her parents were Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. Beckermann studied journalism and art history in Vienna and Tel Aviv, and received her doctorate in 1977. In New York she studied photography at the School of Visual Arts. During her studies, she contributed as a journalist to several Austrian and Swiss magazines. Career Her first film was made in cooperation with Josef Aichholzer and Franz Grafl of the ''Videogroup Arena'' in 1977. Shot on video and 16mm film, ''Arena Besetzt'' (''Arena Squatted'') documented the occupation of the old Viennese slaughterhouse Arena. The following year, Beckermann founded the film distribution company ''Filmladen'' along with Aichholzer and Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PEN-Zentrum Deutschland
PEN Centre Germany is part of the worldwide association of writers founded in London in 1921, now known as PEN International. One of over 140 autonomous PEN centres around the world, PEN Centre Germany is based in Darmstadt, Hesse. Work PEN Centre Germany upholds the objectives of PEN International in protecting the freedom of intellectual expression throughout the world. PEN Centre Germany supports two main programmes: Writers in Prison and Writers in Exile. Founded in 1999, Writers in Exile is a programme supporting international writers who are given the opportunity to live and work in safety, with accommodation provided in Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg and Munich together with living expenses. Since 1985 PEN Centre Germany has awarded the Hermann Kesten Prize for outstanding services to persecuted authors. PEN Centre Germany is also a participant in the annual Writers for Peace Committee founded in 1984. History of PEN Centre Germany Weimar Republic The German branch of I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goethe Institute
The Goethe-Institut (; GI, ''Goethe Institute'') is a Nonprofit organization, nonprofit German culture, cultural organization operational worldwide with more than 150 cultural centres, promoting the study of the German language abroad and encouraging international cultural exchange and relations. Around 246,000 people have studied German in these courses per year. It is named after German poet and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. As a registered association, the Goethe-Institut e.V. is politically independent. The Goethe-Institut fosters knowledge about Germany by providing information on German culture, society and socio-political affairs. This includes the promotion of German films, music, theatre, and literature. Goethe cultural societies, reading rooms, and examination and language centres have played an important role in the cultural and educational activities of Germany in many countries for more than 60 years. Partners of the institute and its centres are public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Book Prize
The German Book Prize () is awarded annually, in October, by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association () to the best new German-language novel of the year. The books, published in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, are nominated by their publishers, who can propose up to two books from their current or planned publication list. The books should be in shops before the short-list is announced in September of the award year. The winner is awarded €25,000, while the five shortlisted authors receive €2,500 each. It is presented annually during the Frankfurt Book Fair. The prize was created in 2005, as a successor to the , to heighten awareness for authors writing in German. It is based on the same idea as literary prizes such as the Booker Prize or the Prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt ( , "The Goncourt Prize") is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leipzig Book Fair
The Leipzig Book Fair () is the second largest book fair in Germany after the Frankfurt Book Fair. The fair takes place annually over four days at the Leipzig Trade Fairground in the northern part of Leipzig, Saxony. It is the first large trade meeting of the year and as such it plays an important role in the market and is often where new publications are first presented. . The Leipzig Book Fair generates most of its revenue from the general public. The evening program includes readings by authors in bookshops, cafes and the historic Leipzig City Hall. History The Leipzig Fair has its origins in the 15th century. The Leipzig Book Fair became the largest book fair in Germany in 1632 when it topped the fair in Frankfurt am Main in the number of books presented; Frankfurt featured 100 books, compared to Leipzig's 700 that year. The success and importance of the fair is linked to the emergence of a vibrant publishing industry in the city. By the 16th century, Leipzig was home t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3sat
3sat (, ''Dreisat'') is a free-to-air German-language public service television channel. It is a generalist channel with a cultural focus and is jointly operated by public broadcasters from Germany ( ZDF, ARD), Austria ( ORF) and Switzerland ( SRG SSR). The coordinating broadcaster is ZDF, at whose Mainz facility the broadcasting centre with studios for in-house productions is located. History 3sat was established to broadcast cultural programmes, originally by satellite. The network was founded as a cooperative network by Germany's ZDF, Austria's ORF, and Switzerland's SRG SSR (formerly SRG SSR idée suisse). 3sat began broadcasting on 1 December 1984, with its first programme being simulcasted on FS2, TV DRS and ZDF. ZDF leads the cooperative, though decisions are reached through consensus of the cooperative's partners. In 1990, DFF, television broadcaster of the German Democratic Republic became a cooperative member of 3sat, and a name change to 4sat was considere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Zeit
(, ) 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 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. Marion Gräfin Dönhoff joined as an editor in March 1946. She became publisher of from 1972 until her death in 2002. In 1983 she was joined by former Chancellor of Germany (1949–), German chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Later Josef Joffe and former German federal secretary of culture Michael Naumann joined them as well. The paper's publishing house, Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius in Hamburg, is owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and Dieter von Holtzbrinck, Dieter von Holtzbrinck Media. The paper is published weekly on Thursdays. As of 2018, has additional offices in Brussels, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Süddeutsche Zeitung
The ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (; ), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest and most influential daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of ''SZ'' is mainly described as centre-left, liberal, social-liberal, progressive-liberal, and social-democrat. It is considered one of Germany's newspapers of record. The Süddeutsche Zeitung was one of the first daily newspapers approved by the Allies after World War II and was first published on 6 October 1945. The newspaper is published by ''Süddeutsche Verlag'' in Munich. It is majority owned by investment holdings and a small part by the original publishing family, the Friedmann family. The editors-in-chief are Wolfgang Krach and Judith Wittwer. The chairman of the editorial board is Thomas Schaub. History 20th century On 6 October 1945, five months after the end of World War II in Germany, the ''SZ'' was the first newspaper to receive a license from the U.S. military administration of Bavaria. The first issue was publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
