Heinrich Mann Prize
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The Heinrich Mann Prize is a literary award given annually by the Berlin Academy of Art (formerly the Academy of Art of Communist East Germany). The prize given for works with socially critical aspects in a character that would honor Heinrich Mann
Heinrich Mann
Luiz Heinrich Mann was a German novelist who wrote works with strong social themes. His attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of pre-World War II German society led to his exile in 1933.-Life and work:Born in Lübeck as the oldest child of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann...

. The award is endowed with 8,000 Euros.
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Recipients

  • 1953
    1953 in literature
    The year 1953 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* January 22 - The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway....

    : Stefan Heym
    Stefan Heym
    Helmut Flieg was a German-Jewish writer, known by his pseudonym Stefan Heym. He lived in the United States between 1935 and 1952, before moving back to the part of his native Germany which was, from 1949–1990, German Democratic Republic...

    , Wolfgang Harich
    Wolfgang Harich
    Wolfgang Harich was a philosopher and journalist in East Germany.A deserter from the German army in World War II and a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Harich became a professor of philosophy at Humboldt University in 1949...

    , Max Zimmering
    Max Zimmering
    -Life:Max Zimmering was born as a son of a clock maker in Pirna, Saxony. From 1914, he lived with an uncle in Dresden since his father would be drafted into the military and his mother had to move to Vienna because of her sickness...

  • 1954
    1954 in literature
    The year 1954 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Jack Kerouac reads Dwight Goddard's A Buddhist Bible, which will influence him greatly.*John Updike graduates from Harvard with a thesis on George Herbert....

    : Gotthold Gloger
    Gotthold Gloger
    Gotthold Gloger was a German writer and painter.-Life:Gotthold Gloger was born in Königsberg, East Prussia. He received painting and drawing lessons as a child. He attended the Kunstgewerbeakademie in Königsberg from 1941, simultaneously arose his first literary attempt...

    , Theo Harych
    Theo Harych
    -Life:Born in Doruchow, Province of Posen, Theo Harych was the son of a farmer. From 1910 to 1918, he worked as a herder and servant in Silesia. He stopped attending a Volksschule after 1916. He went to Central Germany in 1919 where he worked in a sugar factory and in a coal mine in Mücheln...

  • 1955
    1955 in literature
    The year 1955 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*28 May - Philip Larkin makes a train journey from Hull to London which inspires his poem The Whitsun Weddings....

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  • 1956
    1956 in literature
    The year 1956 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Writing under the pseudonym of Emile Ajar, author Romain Gary becomes the only person ever to win the Prix Goncourt twice.*Iris Murdoch marries John Bayley....

    : Franz Fühmann
    Franz Fühmann
    Franz Fühmann was a German writer. He lived and worked as a short story writer, essayist and children's book author in East Germany...

    , Rudolf Fischer
    Rudolf Fischer (writer)
    -Life:Rudolf Fischer was born in Dresden. He came from a working class family. After he had taken the Abitur in 1921, he worked as a salesman. He would become unemployed and later was employed as a Mail carrier. Since World War II, Fischer suffered with health problems which continued in the...

    , Wolfgang Schreyer
    Wolfgang Schreyer
    Wolfgang Schreyer is a German writer of fiction, historic adventures mixed with documentary, science fiction for TV shows and movies and is best known as the author of over 20 adventure stories.-Life:...

  • 1957
    1957 in literature
    The year 1957 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Lawrence Durrell publishes the first volume of The Alexandria Quartet. The final of the four volumes will be published in 1960....

    : Hanns Maaßen
    Hanns Maaßen
    Hanns Maaßen was a German journalist and writer.-Life:...

    , Herbert Nachbar
    Herbert Nachbar
    Herbert Nachbar was a German writer resident in the German Democratic Republic.-Life:...

    , Margarete Neumann
    Margarete Neumann
    Margarete Neumann was a German writer and lyrical poet.-Life:Margarete Neumann was born in Pyritz, Pomerania. She studied at the social educational seminar in Königsberg and worked until 1945 as a welfare worker in Heilsberg. After being expelled from Poland to Germany in 1945, she was a farmer...

  • 1958
    1958 in literature
    The year 1958 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*August 18 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in United States.*First volume of The Civil War by Shelby Foote is published....

    : Hans Grundig
    Hans Grundig
    Hans Grundig was a German painter and graphic artist associated with the New Objectivity movement.He was born in Dresden and, after an apprenticeship as an interior decorator, studied in 1920–1921 at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts. He then studied at the Dresden Academy from 1922–1923...

    , Herbert Jobst
    Herbert Jobst
    Herbert Jobst was a German writer.-Life:Herbert Jobst was the son of a miner from Neu-Welzow, Lusatia who died in World War I. As a small child, he would be abandoned by his mother in Radeberg and spend his youth in homes and with different foster parents. After his attendance of the...

    , Rosemarie Schuder
    Rosemarie Schuder
    Rosemarie Schuder is a German writer.-Life:Rosemarie Schuder came from a Middle class family in Jena. She attended a girl's school and took the Abitur in 1947. Subsequently she worked as a freelance journalist for the East German newspaper Tägliche Rundschau and Neue Zeit...

  • 1959
    1959 in literature
    The year 1959 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*April 30 - Theatrical première of Bertolt Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards, originally performed on radio in 1932....

    : Heiner Müller
    Heiner Müller
    Heiner Müller was a German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. Described as "the theatre's greatest living poet" since Samuel Beckett, Müller is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht...

    , Hans Lorbeer
    Hans Lorbeer
    Hans Lorbeer was a German politician and writer.-Life:Hans Lorbeer was born as the illegitimate child of a worker girl in the Saxon town of Lutherstadt Wittenberg and grew up with foster parents in Kleinwittenberg and Piesteritz, both districts of Lutherstadt Wittenberg...

    , Inge Müller
    Inge Müller
    Inge Müller was an East German poet.-Life:Inge Müller was born in Berlin in 1925. During World War II, she participated in the Reichsarbeitsdienst in different towns in Styria until she would be sent to Berlin as a Luftwaffe aide. Her parents died in an air strike...

  • 1960
    1960 in literature
    The year 1960 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*November 2 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case in the United Kingdom....

    : Helmut Hauptmann
    Helmut Hauptmann
    Helmut Hauptmann is a German writer who was mainly active in the then East Germany.-Life:Helmut Hauptmann grew up in a working-class family in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Near the end of World War II, he served as a Luftwaffenhelfer in Berlin and became a Prisoner of war at a camp in Schleswig-Holstein. ...

    , Annemarie Reinhard
    Annemarie Reinhard
    Annemarie Reinhard was a German writer.-Life:Annemarie Reinhard was born in Dresden. After her finishing high school, she worked as a tailor. She joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in 1948. A friendship connected her with Danish author Martin Andersen Nexø...

  • 1961
    1961 in literature
    The year 1961 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*First English production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui*Michael Halliday publishes his seminal paper on the systemic functional grammar model....

    : Dieter Noll
    Dieter Noll
    Dieter Noll was a German writer. His best known work is the two volume novel Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt from the early 1960s which had sold over two million copies by his death.-Life:...

  • 1962
    1962 in literature
    The year 1962 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*January 7 - In an article in the New York Times Book Review, Gore Vidal calls Evelyn Waugh "our time's first satirist."...

    : Günter Kunert
    Günter Kunert
    Günter Kunert is a German writer who left the German Democratic Republic to live in the Federal Republic of Germany ....

    , Bernhard Seeger
    Bernhard Seeger
    Bernhard Seeger was a German author.-Life:Bernhard Seeger was born to a locksmith in Roßlau. He attended the gymnasium and then a teaching education school in Köthen. In 1944, he joined the Nazi Party. After doing his Reichsarbeitsdienst in Zerbst, he participated in World War II as a soldier...

  • 1963
    1963 in literature
    The year 1963 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*First United States printing of John Cleland's 1749 novel, Fanny Hill . The book is banned for obscenity, triggering a court case by its publisher.*Leslie Charteris publishes his final collection of stories...

    : Christa Wolf
    Christa Wolf
    Christa Wolf was a German literary critic, novelist, and essayist. She is one of the best-known writers to have emerged from the former East Germany.-Biography:...

  • 1964
    1964 in literature
    The year 1964 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Jean-Paul Sartre becomes head of the Organization to Defend Iranian Political Prisoners....

    : Günter de Bruyn
    Günter de Bruyn
    Günter de Bruyn is a German author.-Life:Günter de Bruyn was born in Berlin and served as a Luftwaffenhelfer and soldier in World War II. After his release from his American arrest, he found a place as a farm worker in Hesse. After his return to Berlin, he would be trained as a "new teacher" in...

  • 1965
    1965 in literature
    The year 1965 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Lloyd Alexander - The Black Cauldron*J. G. Ballard - The Drought*Ray Bradbury - The Vintage Bradbury*John Brunner...

    : Johannes Bobrowski
    Johannes Bobrowski
    Johannes Bobrowski was a German lyric poet, narrative writer, adaptor and essayist.-Life:Bobrowski was born in Tilsit in East Prussia. In 1925, he moved first to Rastenburg, then in 1928 on to Königsberg, where he attended the humanist Gymnasium. One of his teachers was Ernst Wiechert. In 1937, he...

    , Brigitte Reimann
    Brigitte Reimann
    Brigitte Reimann was a German writer who is best known for her posthumously published novel Franziska Linkerhand.-Life:...

  • 1966
    1966 in literature
    The year 1966 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*February 14 - Dissident writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to hard labour for "anti-Soviet activity"....

    : Peter Weiss
    Peter Weiss
    Peter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, and artist of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance....

  • 1967
    1967 in literature
    The year 1967 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Influential science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions published.*Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK.-New books:...

    : Hermann Kant
    Hermann Kant
    Hermann Kant is a German writer born in Hamburg noted for his writings during the time of East Germany. He won the Heinrich Mann Prize in 1967.-References:...

    , Walter Kaufmann
  • 1968
    1968 in literature
    The year 1968 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Dean R. Koontz's first novel, Star Quest is published....

    : Herbert Ihering
  • 1969
    1969 in literature
    The year 1969 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The first Booker Prize is awarded.* "Penelope Ashe", author of the bestselling novel Naked Came the Stranger, is found to be several people who each took a turn writing a chapter of what they described as "junk" in...

    : Werner Heiduczek, Wolfgang Joho, Alfred Wellm
  • 1970
    1970 in literature
    The year 1970 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Deliverance by American poet James Dickey published...

    : Fritz Selbmann, Jeanne Stern, Kurt Stern
    Kurt Stern
    Kurt Stern was a screenwriter who worked for Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft in East Germany. He worked in partnership with his wife Jeanne . In 1953, together with director Martin Hellberg, the Sterns were awarded the Gold Medal of the World Peace Council for the film Das verurteilte Dorf...

    , Martin Viertel
  • 1971
    1971 in literature
    The year 1971 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Destiny Waltz by Gerda Charles wins the UK's first Whitbread Novel of the Year Award.-New books:*Hiroshi Aramata - Teito Monogatari...

    : Jurek Becker
    Jurek Becker
    Jurek Becker was a Polish-born German writer, film-author and GDR dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during World War II for about two years and survived the Holocaust.-Childhood:Jurek Becker was born in 1937 and lived in the...

    , Erik Neutsch, Herbert Otto
  • 1972
    1972 in literature
    The year 1972 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Fiction:*Richard Adams - Watership Down*Jorge Amado - Teresa Batista Cansada da Guerra *Martin Amis - The Rachel Papers...

    : Karl-Heinz Jakobs, Fred Wander
    Fred Wander
    Fred Wander was an Austrian writer and Holocaust survivor.Wander was born Fritz Rosenblatt in Vienna, he left school at 14 and worked as an apprentice in a textile mill, before travelling around Europe taking whatever jobs were going. He spent quite some time in pre-war Paris and this is where he...

  • 1973
    1973 in literature
    The year 1973 in literature involved several significant events and the writing of many notable books.-Events:*September 25 - The funeral of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda becomes a focus for protests against the new government of Augusto Pinochet...

    : Ulrich Plenzdorf
    Ulrich Plenzdorf
    Ulrich Plenzdorf was a German author and dramatist.-Life:Born in Berlin, Plenzdorf studied Philosophy in Leipzig, but graduated with a degree in film...

    , Helga Schütz
  • 1974
    1974 in literature
    The year 1974 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman.-New books:*Richard Adams - Shardik*Kingsley Amis - Ending Up...

    : Kurt Batt, Gerhard Wolf
  • 1975
    1975 in literature
    The year 1975 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* August 12 — with the 20-year time limit stipulated by Thomas Mann at his death having expired, sealed packets containing 32 of the author's notebooks were opened in Zurich, Switzerland.* Writing under the...

    : Irmtraud Morgner
    Irmtraud Morgner
    Irmtraud Morgner, , was a German writer, best known for works of magical realism concerned predominantly with the role of gender in East German society.-Life:...

    , Eberhard Panitz
  • 1976
    1976 in literature
    The year 1976 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Saul Bellow won both the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.-New books:*Kingsley Amis – The Alteration...

    : Annemarie Auer, Siegfried Pitschmann
  • 1977
    1977 in literature
    The year 1977 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Douglas Adams begins writing for BBC radio.*V. S. Naipaul declines the offer of a CBE....

    : Erich Köhler, Joachim Nowotny
  • 1978
    1978 in literature
    The year 1978 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, a humorous award given annually to books with unusual titles is created. The first winner was Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude...

    : Karl Mickel
  • 1979
    1979 in literature
    The year 1979 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*V.C...

    : Fritz Rudolf Fries
    Fritz Rudolf Fries
    -Life:Fritz Rudolf Fries was born in Bilbao, Spain. His mother was a German of Spanish descent, and his father a German businessman who was shot during the Second World War by Italian partisans. In 1942 the family moved to Leipzig, a city which was heavily bombarded at the end of the war...

  • 1980
    1980 in literature
    The year 1980 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Marguerite Yourcenar becomes the first woman to be elected to the Académie française....

    : Volker Braun
    Volker Braun
    Volker Braun is a German writer. His works include Provokation für mich -- a collection of poems written between 1959 and 1964 and published in 1965, a play, Die Kipper , and Das ungezwungne Leben Kasts .-Life:Volker Braun, who worked in...

    , Paul Gratzik
    Paul Gratzik
    Paul Gratzik is a German Writer.-Life:Paul Gratzik is the son of a farm worker. He attended elementary school and afterwards completed an apprenticeship to a cabinet maker from 1952 to 1954. He worked in the Ruhr Area, in Berlin and Weimar then in the brown coal open mine in Schlabendorf...

  • 1981
    1981 in literature
    The year 1981 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction given for the first time...

    : Peter Hacks
    Peter Hacks
    Peter Hacks was a German playwright, author, and essayist.Hacks was born in Breslau , Lower Silesia. Displaced by World War II, Hacks settled in Munich in 1947, where he made acquaintance with Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht...

  • 1982
    1982 in literature
    The year 1982 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*La Bicyclette Bleue by Régine Deforges becomes France's best selling novel ever.-New books:...

    : Christoph Hein
    Christoph Hein
    Christoph Hein is a German author and translator.He grew up in the village Bad Düben near Leipzig. Being a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin. After his Abitur he jobbed inter alia...

    , Werner Liersch
  • 1983
    1983 in literature
    The year 1983 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Ironweed by William Kennedy is published.*Salvage for the Saint by Peter Bloxsom and John Kruse is published. This is the final book in a series of novels, novellas and short stories featuring the Leslie Charteris...

    : Friedrich Dieckmann, Helmut H. Schulz
  • 1984
    1984 in literature
    The year 1984 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The book Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is widely read....

    : Heinz Czechowski
  • 1985
    1985 in literature
    The year 1985 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Isaac Asimov - Robots and Empire*Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale*Jean M. Auel - The Mammoth Hunters*Iain Banks - Walking on Glass...

    : Helga Königsdorf, Bernd Leistner
  • 1986
    1986 in literature
    The year 1986 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Michael Grade. Controller of BBC One, axes plans to televise Ian Curteis's The Falklands Play.-New books:*Kingsley Amis - The Old Devils...

    : Helga Schubert
    Helga Schubert
    Helga Schubert is a German Psychologist and author.-Life:Helga Shubert is a daughter of a librarian, who was also active in economics, and of a 1941 favored Gerichtsassessor and grew up in East Berlin...

    , Heidi Urban de Jauregui
    Heidi Urban de Jauregui
    Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui is an emeritus Professor of German Literature at the Jean Monnet University, France, and essayist.-Life:...

  • 1987
    1987 in literature
    The year 1987 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Tom Wolfe was paid $5 million for the film rights to his novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the most ever earned by an author, at the time.-Fiction:...

    : Luise Rinser
    Luise Rinser
    Luise Rinser was a German writer.-Early life and education:...

  • 1988
    1988 in literature
    The year 1988 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye*J.G. Ballard - Memories of the Space Age*Iain M...

    : Fritz Mierau
  • 1989
    1989 in literature
    The year 1989 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.-Literature:...

    : Wulf Kirsten
  • 1990
    1990 in literature
    The year 1990 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*J. K. Rowling gets the idea for Harry Potter while on a train ride from Manchester to London. She says "I was staring out the window, and the idea for Harry just came. He appeared in my mind's eye, very fully formed...

    : Adolf Endler
    Adolf Endler
    Adolf Endler was a lyric poet, essayist and prose author who played a central role in subcultural activities that attacked and challenged an outdated model of socialist realism in the German Democratic Republic up until the collapse of communism in the early 1990s...

    , Elke Erb
  • 1991
    1991 in literature
    The year 1991 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Douglas Coupland publishes the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation....

    : Peter Gosse
    Peter Gosse
    Peter Gosse is a German poet, prose author and essayist.-Life:Peter Gosse first completed a study of high frequency technology in Moscow. After an occupation as an engineer, he worked as a free lance writer in East Germany from 1968. Since 1985, he was a lecturer of poetry at the "Johannes R...

    , Kito Lorenc
    Kito Lorenc
    Kito Lorenc , grandson of the Sorbian writer Jakub Lorenc-Zalěski, is a Sorbian-German writer, lyric poet and translator....

  • 1992
    1992 in literature
    The year 1992 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Ben Aaronovitch - Transit*Julia Álvarez - How the García Girls Lost Their Accents*Paul Auster - Leviathan*Iain Banks - The Crow Road...

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  • 1993
    1993 in literature
    The year 1993 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times....

    /94
    1994 in literature
    The year 1994 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Kevin J. Anderson - Champions of the Force, Dark Apprentice and Jedi Search*Reed Arvin - The Wind in the Wheat*Greg Bear - Songs of Earth and Power...

     Lothar Baier
    Lothar Baier
    Lothar Baier was a German author, publisher, translator and co-founder of the Literary periodical text + kritik....

  • 1995
    1995 in literature
    The year 1995 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea is opened by Jimmy Carter....

    : Hans Mayer
    Hans Mayer
    Hans Mayer was a German literary scholar. Mayer was also a jurist and social researcher and was internationally recognized as a critic, author and musicologist.- Life :...

  • 1996
    1996 in literature
    The year 1996 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is removed from an advanced placement English reading list in Lindale, Texas because it "conflicted with the values of the community."* In the United Kingdom, the first...

    : Julius Posener
    Julius Posener
    Julius Posener was a German architectural historian, author and higher education teacher....

  • 1997
    1997 in literature
    The year 1997 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Tom Clancy signs a book deal with Pearson Custom Publishing and Penguin Putnam Inc. , giving him US$50 million for the world-English rights to two new books . A second agreement gives him another US$25 million for a...

    : Michael Rutschky
    Michael Rutschky
    -Life:Michael Rutschky grew up in Spangenberg, Hesse. From 1963 to 1971, he studied Sociology, Literary Science and Philosophy at the Universities Frankfurt am Main , Göttingen and FU Berlin...

  • 1998
    1998 in literature
    The year 1998 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*March 5 - Tennessee Williams' 1938 play, Not About Nightingales, receives its stage première....

    : Karl Markus Michel
    Karl Markus Michel
    Karl Markus Michel was a German writer.-Life:Karl Markus Michel was the son of German missionaries. He spent his childhood and youth in Darmstadt. After the Abitur, he studied philosophy, sociology, art history, and German studies in Munich and Frankfurt am Main...

  • 1999
    1999 in literature
    The year 1999 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*June 19 - Stephen King is hit by a Dodge van while taking a walk. He spends the next three weeks hospitalized...

    : Katharina Rutschky
    Katharina Rutschky
    Katharina Rutschky was a German educationalist and author. She coined the term "Schwarze Pädagogik" in her eponymous book from 1977. The term was later translated to poisonous pedagogy by Alice Miller...

  • 2000
    2000 in literature
    The year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* February 13 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published...

    : Dubravka Ugrešić
    Dubravka Ugrešic
    Dubravka Ugrešić is a Croatian writer who lives in the Netherlands.- Background and education:Ugrešić was born in 1949 in Kutina, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia., She studied Comparative Literature and Russian Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb, pursuing parallel careers as a...

  • 2001
    2001 in literature
    The year 2001 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The film version of J. R. R. Tolkien's classic book, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, is released to movie theaters...

    : Walter Boehlich
    Walter Boehlich
    Walter Boehlich was a German journalist, literary critic, literary editor and translator.-Life:Walter Boehlich was born in Breslau, Silesia, as a son of writer Ernst Boehlich. During the Nazi regime, Boelich was discriminated at school because of his Jewish background...

  • 2002
    2002 in literature
    The year 2002 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*March 16: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticized the state's Islamic...

    : Götz Aly
    Götz Aly
    Götz Aly is a German journalist, historian and social scientist.-Biography:After attending the German School of Journalists, Aly studied history and political science in Berlin...

  • 2003
    2003 in literature
    The year 2003 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Peter Ackroyd - The Clerkenwell Tales*Atsuko Asano - No...

    : Wolfgang Schivelbusch
    Wolfgang Schivelbusch
    Wolfgang Schivelbusch is a German scholar of cultural studies, historian, and book author.Schivelbusch studied literature, sociology, and philosophy. He has lived in New York since 1973....

  • 2004
    2004 in literature
    The year 2004 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing to be read across the nation....

    : Claudia Schmölders
    Claudia Schmölders
    Claudia Schmölders, also Claudia Henn-Schmölders is a cultural scientist, author and translator.-Life:...

  • 2005
    2005 in literature
    The year 2005 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*February 25 - Canada Reads selects Rockbound by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation....

    : Ivan Nagel
    Ivan Nagel
    Ivan Nagel is a German theater scientist, critic and former theater director of Hungarian origin.-Life:Ivan Nagel comes from a Jewish family who fled their home because of the Second World War, and therefore survived the Holocaust. After the war, Nagel wanted to study in Budapest...

  • 2006
    2006 in literature
    The year 2006 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Literature:*Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun*Chris Adrian - The Children's Hospital *Martin Amis - House of Meetings...

    : Peter von Matt
    Peter von Matt
    -Life:Peter von Matt grew up in Stans in the canton of Nidwalden. He studied Art History as well as German and English studies in Zürich and received a doctorate with Emil Staiger on Franz Grillparzer. In 1970, he received his post doctorate lecturing qualifications with a work on E. T. A...

  • 2007
    2007 in literature
    The year 2007 in literature involves some significant new books.-Events:*November 19 - First Kindle e-book reader released.*December 11 - Terry Pratchett informs fans on-line that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.-Literature:...

    : Karl Heinz Bohrer
    Karl Heinz Bohrer
    Karl Heinz Bohrer is a German literary scholar and Essayist.-Life and work:Karl Heinz Bohrer received a doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in 1962 with a dissertation about the Philosophy of History of the German Romantics and received his post doctorate lecturing qualifications at...

  • 2008
    2008 in literature
    The year 2008 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*January 1 - In the 2008 New Year Honours, Hanif Kureishi , Jenny Uglow , Peter Vansittart and Debjani Chatterjee are all rewarded for "services to literature".*June 15 - Gore Vidal, asked in a New York Times...

    : Heinz Schlaffer
    Heinz Schlaffer
    Heinz Schlaffer studies German language and culture and is an emeritus Professor of Literary Science of the University of Stuttgart. He came out with particularly sensational essays like "Die kurze Geschichte der deutschen Literatur"...

  • 2009
    2009 in literature
    The year 2009 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*8 October - Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller wins the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature....

    : Hanns Zischler
  • 2010
    2010 in literature
    The year 2010 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*February - The Wheeler Centre, Australia's "literary hub", officially opened.*April 3 - First release of the Apple iPad, electronic book reading device....

    : Michael Maar
    Michael Maar
    Michael Maar is a German literary scholar and author.For his 1995 doctoral dissertation on Thomas Mann, titled Geister und Kunst, he was awarded the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. He was himself elected a member of the academy in 2002...

  • 2011
    2011 in literature
    The year 2011 will involve some significant events and new books.-Events:*Tomas Tranströmer wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.*Jennifer Egan wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel A Visit From the Goon Squad.-Literature:*T.C...

    : Marie-Luise Scherer

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