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Landshuter Jugendbuchpreis (Landshut Youth Book Prize) is a Bavarian literary prize. [1] The prize has been awarded since 2009, although there was a two-year break due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2]
Barbara Honigmann is a German author, artist and theater director.
Christian Enzensberger was a German Professor of English studies, author and a translator of English literature into German.
Bastian Sick is a German journalist and author.
The Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis is an annual award established in 1956 by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth to recognise outstanding works of children's and young adult literature. It is Germany's only state-funded literary award. In the past, authors from many countries have been recognised, including non-German speakers.
Libuše Moníková was a Czech writer, publishing in the German language. In 1968, following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, she left to Western Germany.
Günter Kunert was a German writer. Based in East Berlin, he published poetry from 1947, supported by Bertold Brecht. After he had signed a petition against the deprivation of the citizenship of Wolf Biermann in 1976, he lost his SED membership, and moved to the West two years later. He is regarded as a versatile German writer who wrote short stories, essays, autobiographical works, film scripts and novels. He received international honorary doctorates and awards.
Max Goldt is a German writer, columnist and musician.
Katharina Rutschky was a German educationalist and author. She coined the term Schwarze Pädagogik in her eponymous book from 1977, describing physical and psychical violence as part of education. Until her death, Rutschky lived with her husband Michael Rutschky in Berlin.
Raoul Schrott is an Austrian poet, writer, literary critic, translator and broadcast personality.
Marc-Uwe Kling is a German songwriter, author, and Kabarett artist. He studied philosophy and drama at Freie Universität Berlin.
Andreas Steinhöfel is a German author for children and young adult books, and a translator.
Walter Kaufmann was a German-Australian writer.
Amelie Fried is a German writer and television presenter. Her father, Kurt Fried, is the creator-publisher of Schwäbische Donauzeitung, nowadays a part of Südwest Presse. She studied journalism and film at university. She has worked extensively in television and has published numerous books. Her 2008 book Schuhhaus Pallas. Wie meine Familie sich gegen die Nazis wehrte deals with her family's persecution in Nazi Germany. The book received significant media attention and has been the subject of much debate.
Reinhard Jirgl is a German writer.
Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály is a German cultural manager and Director of the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar.
Anton G. Leitner is a German writer and publisher.
Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing is a novella by Joseph von Eichendorff. Completed in 1823, it was first printed in 1826. The work is regarded as a pinnacle of musical prose. Eichendorff created an open form with epic and lyrical elements, incorporating several poems and songs in the text. It was first published in English in 1866.
Margit Auer is a German author. Her children's novels have sold a total of 8 million copies and have been translated into 26 languages. Margit Auer gained popularity through her book series Die Schule der magischen Tiere. The first book of this continuing series was published in 2013.
Pieke Biermann is a German crime writer, literary translator and journalist. She is the winner of the 2020 Leipzig Book Fair Translator's Prize. In the 1970s and '80s, she was an activist in the Berlin women's movement.
Karla Schneider is a German writer.