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Róža Domašcyna
Róža Domašcyna (11 August 1951, in Ralbitz-Rosenthal, Zerna, East Germany) is a poet, translator and writer. She writes in German and in the Upper Sorbian language. Winner of the promotional award for Ćišinski-Preis and Anna Seghers Prize (1998). Works * ''Wróćo ja doprědka du'' (English: ''I go back to the front''), 1990 * ''Zaungucker'', 1991 * ''Pře wšě płoty'' (English: ''Over all fences''), 1994 * ''Zwischen gangbein und springbein'', 1995 * ''Der Hase im Ärmel'', Illustration: Angela Hampel, 1997, 2011 * ''Selbstredend selbzweit selbdritt'', 1998 * ''Kunstgriff am netzwerg'', 1999 * ''Pobate bobate'', 1999 * ''"sp"'', 2001 * ''MY NA AGRA'', 2004 * ''stimmfaden'', 2006 * ''Balonraketa'' (two texts for the theater), 2008 * ''ort der erdung'', 2011 * ''«Prjedy hač woteńdźeš»'', 2011. * ''Štož ći wětřik z ruki wěje'', 2012 * ''Feldlinien'', 2014 * ''Die dörfer unter wasser sind in deinem kopf beredt'', 2016 * ''znaki pominaki kopolaki'' (together wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralbitz-Rosenthal
Ralbitz-Rosenthal ( German) or Ralbicy-Róžant ( Upper Sorbian, ) is a municipality in the district of Bautzen, in Saxony, Germany. Rosenthal is a well known pilgrimage site, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and administered by the Order of Cistercians. The municipality belongs to Upper Lusatia Upper Lusatia (, ; , ; ; or ''Milsko''; ) is a historical region in Germany and Poland. Along with Lower Lusatia to the north, it makes up the region of Lusatia, named after the Polabian Slavs, Slavic ''Lusici'' tribe. Both parts of Lusatia a ... and is located in the central settlement area of the Sorbs. It consists of following villages (names given in German/Upper Sorbian, followed by the number of inhabitants): * Cunnewitz/Konjecy, 268 inh. * Gränze/Hrajnca, 54 inh. * Laske/Łask, 85 inh. * Naußlitz/Nowoslicy, 121 inh. * Neu-Schmerlitz/Nowa Smjerdźaca, 1 inh. * Ralbitz/Ralbicy, 333 inh. * Rosenthal/Róžant, 265 inh. * Schmerlitz/Smjerdźaca, 182 inh. * Schönau/Šunow, 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Germany
East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on 3 October 1990. Until 1989, it was generally viewed as a communist state and described itself as a Socialist state, socialist "workers' and peasants' state". The Economy of East Germany, economy of the country was Central planning, centrally planned and government-owned corporation, state-owned. Although the GDR had to pay substantial war reparations to the Soviets, its economy became the most successful in the Eastern Bloc. Before its establishment, the country's territory was administered and occupied by Soviet forces following the Berlin Declaration (1945), Berlin Declaration abolishing German sovereignty in World War II. The Potsdam Agreement established the Soviet occupation zone in Germany, Soviet-occupied zone, bounded on the east b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Sorbian Language
Upper Sorbian (), occasionally referred to as Wendish (), is a minority language spoken by Sorbs in the historical province of Upper Lusatia, today part of Saxony, Germany. It is a West Slavic languages, West Slavic language, along with Lower Sorbian language, Lower Sorbian, Czech language, Czech, Polish language, Polish, Silesian language, Silesian, Slovak language, Slovak, and Kashubian language, Kashubian. It is now spoken by fewer than 10,000 people, mostly in Budyšin and its immediate countryside. History The history of the Upper Sorbian language in Germany began with the Slavic peoples, Slavic migrations during the 6th century AD. Beginning in the 12th century, there was a massive influx of rural Germanic settlers from Flanders, Saxony, Thuringia and Franconia. This so-called "" (eastern settlement or expansion) led to a slow but steady decline in use of the Sorbian language. In addition, in the Saxony region, the Sorbian language was legally subordinated to the German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Seghers Prize
Anna Seghers Preis is a literary prize of Germany. The prize goes back to the German writer Anna Seghers (1900–1983), who stated in her testament that the revenues from her work should be used to encourage promising young writers. The award is endowed with 25,000 euros, to be awarded in equal parts to an author from the German and the Latin American region. The prize has been awarded since 1986 by the Academy of Arts (Berlin) till 1994, later by the Anna Seghers Foundation. Each year, the board of the Anna Seghers Foundation names prominent representatives of cultural life as jurors to independently select the two winners. Winners * 1986: Ingeborg Arlt, Omar Saavedra Santis * 1987: Kerstin Hensel, Ramón Díaz Eterovic, Gioconda Belli * 1988: Kathrin Schmidt, Jens Sparschuh * 1989: Annett Gröschner, Jörg Kowalski * 1990: Arturo Arias, Daína Chaviano, Johannes Jansen, Reinhard Jirgl, Sonja Voß-Scharfenberg. * 1991: ''Haus für Strassenkinder'' (Brazil) * 1992: In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Hampel
Angela Hampel (born 1956) is a German painter, graphic artist, and installation artist best known for her Neo-expressive prints and paintings of strong female figures from mythology and the Bible. Early life Born in 1956 in Räckelwitz near Kamenz in the Bezirk Dresden of East Germany (now Saxony), Hampel trained as a forestry worker from 1972 to 1974. She then worked in forestry for two years while studying art in evening classes at the Bautzen branch of the Dresden Art Academy. After spending a year arranging programs for young people at the Kamenz culture centre, she continued studying painting and graphic art under Jutta Damme and Dietmar Büttner at the academy until 1982. Work From 1982-85, Hampel was a candidate for the East German Artists Union (Verband Bildende Künstler), becoming an official member in 1985. Her first solo exhibition was in 1984, the same year she read and was inspired by Christa Wolf's novel ''Cassandra''. She created a number of prints and paint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Births
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 11 – In the U.S., a top secret report is delivered to U.S. President Truman by his National Security Resources Board, urging Truman to expand the Korean War by launching "a global offensive against communism" with sustained bombing of Red China and diplomatic moves to establish "moral justification" for a U.S. nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The report will not not be declassified until 1978. * January 15 – In a criminal court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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People From Bautzen (district)
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
