Siegfried Lenz was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. He won the 2010 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
Fehlfarben is a Neue Deutsche Welle music band from Düsseldorf, Germany, that was formed in 1979. Its founding members were Peter Hein (vocals), former member of the German punk band Mittagspause, Thomas Schwebel, Michael Kemner, Frank Fenstermacher, Markus Oehlen and Uwe Bauer.
Juli Zeh is a German writer and judge. She is known for novels such as The Method (2009), Unterleuten (2016) and About People (2021).
The Festival of German-Language Literature is a literary event which takes place annually in Klagenfurt, Austria. During this major literary festival which lasts for several days a number of awards are given, the major one being the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, first awarded in 1977 and one of the most important awards for literature in the German language.
Ilija Trojanow is a Bulgarian–German writer, translator and publisher.
Otfried Höffe is a German philosopher and professor.
"Es ist für uns eine Zeit angekommen" is a traditional Swiss Star singers Christmas carol from the Canton of Lucerne. Lyrically, there are some regional variations.
The Buxtehude Bull is an award for youth literature, established in 1971 by Winfried Ziemann, a local book merchant from Buxtehude, a Hanseatic City located in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. The town council took over the sponsorship of the award in 1981. The award is given annually to the best children's or young-adults' book published in German in the preceding year. The writer is presented with a small steel statue of the bull Ferdinand, from the popular work The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf, and also receives a monetary prize of €5,000.
The Bremen Literature Prize is a German literary award. The prize money is €25,000.
Dark Matter is a 2007 novel by the German writer Juli Zeh. It was published as In Free Fall in the United States. It tells the story of a physics professor who is told he has to kill a man in order to get his kidnapped son back, and a detective, Schilf, who steps in to solve the case.
Alice Rühle-Gerstel was a German-Jewish writer, feminist, and psychologist.
Siegfried Obermeier was a German author of historical novels and popular history books. He was editor of The Secret Diaries of Ludwig II of Bavaria 1976. In 1978 he issued his first novel, initially under the penname Carl de Scott, a novelisation of the second life of Judas Iscariot. His Jesus in India book "Starb Jesus in Kaschmir?" made it to the Year Bestseller List of the Spiegel in 1983.
Imperium is a 2012 satiric novel by the Swiss writer Christian Kracht. It recounts the story of August Engelhardt, a German who in the early 20th century founded a religious order in German New Guinea based on nudism and a diet consisting solely of coconuts. The fictionalized narrative is an ironic pastiche.
Martin Burckhardt is a German author and cultural theorist. His first novel, Score, was published in 2015.
Anna, die Schule und der liebe Gott: Der Verrat des Bildungssystems an unseren Kindern is a non-fiction book written by German philosopher and author Richard David Precht and published in 2013 by Goldmann Verlag.
Ralph Hammerthaler is a German writer.
Hans-Jürgen Hufeisen is a German recorder player and composer.
Iris Wolff is a German writer.
Die Stille ist ein Geräusch. Eine Fahrt durch Bosnien is a 2002 travel book by the German writer Juli Zeh. It is about Bosnia in the aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars.
