The German Football Association is the governing body of football, futsal, and beach soccer in Germany. A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB has jurisdiction for the German football league system and is in charge of the men's and women's national teams. The DFB headquarters are in Frankfurt am Main. Sole members of the DFB are the German Football League, organising the professional Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga, along with five regional and 21 state associations, organising the semi-professional and amateur levels. The 21 state associations of the DFB have a combined number of more than 25,000 clubs with more than 6.8 million members, making the DFB the single largest sports federation in the world.
Anna Seghers, is the pseudonym of German writer Anna Reiling, who was notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. Born into a Jewish family and married to a Hungarian Communist, Seghers escaped Nazi-controlled territory through wartime France. She was granted a visa and gained ship's passage to Mexico, where she lived in Mexico City (1941–47).
The Reichsverband deutscher Schriftsteller was founded in 1933 by the Nazi government of the Third Reich in the process of 'germanizing' cultural institutions and purging it of foreign influences. This process was necessitated by the Reichskulturkammergesetz of 9 September 1933.
Friedrich Wolf was a German doctor and politically-engaged writer. From 1949 to 1951, he served as East Germany's first ambassador to Poland.
Dresdner Sportclub 1898 e.V., known simply as Dresdner SC, is a German multisport club playing in Dresden, Saxony. Founded on 30 April 1898, the club was a founding member of the German Football Association in 1900. The origins of the club go back still further to the predecessor side Dresden English Football Club formed in 1874 by expatriate Englishmen as Germany's first football club and possibly the earliest in continental Europe: Dresdener SC was organized by one-time German members of the EFC.
Martin Gumpert was a German-born physician, dermatologist, medical historian, and author. Born in Berlin to a family of doctors, Gumpert pursued a medical career, specializing in dermatology and medical history. His early life was marked by service as a medical orderly during World War I and academic pursuits in Berlin and Heidelberg, culminating in a dissertation on syphilis in 1923. A left-wing social activist and trade unionist, Gumpert also engaged in expressionist poetry and literature.
Stephan Hermlin, real name Rudolf Leder, was a German author. He wrote, among other things, stories, essays, translations, and lyric poetry and was one of the more well-known authors of former East Germany.
Franz Carl Weiskopf was a German-speaking writer. Born in Prague, then part of Austria-Hungary, he was often referred to as F. C. Weiskopf, he also used the pseudonyms Petr Buk, Pierre Buk and F. W. L. Kovacs. He died in Berlin in 1955.
Max Zimmering, was a German writer, journalist and politician.
Theo Harych was a German writer.
Rudolf Leonhard was a German author and communist activist.
Thaddäus-Troll-Preis is a literary prize awarded by the Förderkreis deutscher Schriftsteller in Baden-Württemberg, an organization that supports and sponsors writers in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The prize is awarded annually to German-language writers resident in the state and is named in honor of Thaddäus Troll, one of the founders of the organization. The prize money is €10,000. In 2023, the prize was renamed the Anna Haag Prize.
Hans Bayer, known by the pseudonym Thaddäus Troll, was a German journalist and writer and one of the most prominent modern poets in the Swabian German dialect. In his later years, he was also an active campaigner for libraries and for support, pension rights, and fair publishing contracts for writers. He was born in Cannstatt, a suburb of Stuttgart, and died by suicide there at the age of 66. The literary award Thaddäus-Troll-Preis is named in his honour.
Erik Neutsch was one of the most successful writers in East Germany.
Anneliese Probst was a German writer.
Max Walter Schulz was an East German author and part of that country's literary establishment.
Werner Heiduczek was a German writer. His works have been translated into more than 20 languages and name as author – depending on the language region – Verner Gajduček, Verners Heidučeks or Verneris Heidućekas.
The Verband deutscher Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller represents the interests of professional authors and writers in Germany and is part of the service sector trade union ver.di. The VS, based in Berlin, was founded on 8 June 1969 with the support of Günter Grass, Heinrich Böll and Martin Walser as a merger of the "Bundesvereinigung der deutschen Schriftstellerverbände"", the "Verband deutscher Übersetzer" and the "Verband deutscher Kritiker" in Cologne. After a membership vote in October 2015, the association changed its original self-designation "Association of German Writers" to "association of German Writers".
Eberhard Panitz was a German writer, screenwriter, literary editor and publicist. He wrote epic works, documentaries, audio plays and scripts for films and television. He was committed to socialist realism, and received several awards in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). After German reunification, he continued to write for leftist publishers.
Max von Millenkovich, also known by the pseudonym Max Morold, was an Austrian writer about music and librettist who was also from 1917 to 1918 director of the K.K. Hofburgtheater, now the Burgtheater, in Vienna. He is best remembered as a writer for his work Dreigestirn: Wagner, Liszt, Bülow.
