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Maria Rowohlt (born as Maria Pierenkämper; 5 June 1910 in Bochum – 11 April 2005 in Hamburg) was a German actress. She was married several times, amongst others to Max Rupp and to Ernst Rowohlt.
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power". Along with Peter Handke and Botho Strauss, she is considered to be among the most important living playwrights of the German language.
Peter Berglar was a German historian, professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cologne, and was known for his many publications. His biography of Thomas More is considered one of the best.
Rowohlt Verlag is a German publishing house based in Hamburg, with offices in Reinbek and Berlin. It has been part of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Group since 1982. The company was created in 1908 in Leipzig by Ernst Rowohlt.
Harry Rowohlt was a German writer and translator. He also played the role of a derelict in the famous German weekly-soap Lindenstraße.
Ernst Hermann Heinrich Rowohlt was a German publisher who founded the Rowohlt publishing house in 1908 and headed it and its successors until his death.
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Peter Rühmkorf was a German writer who significantly influenced German post-war literature.
The German Book Prize is awarded annually, in October, by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association to the best new German language novel of the year. The books, published in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, are nominated by their publishers, who can propose up to two books from their current or planned publication list. The books should be in shops before the short-list is announced in September of the award year. The winner is awarded €25,000, while the five shortlisted authors receive €2,500 each. It is presented annually during the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Alfred Polgar 17 October 1873, Vienna – 24 April 1955, Zurich) was an Austrian-born columnist, theater critic, writer and occasionally translator.
Alexander, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau, known professionally as Alexander von Schönburg, is a German journalist and writer. He is, after his older brother Carl's abdication, the current head of the comital branch of the princely House of Schönburg.
Terézia Mora is a German Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator.
Wolf Haas is an Austrian writer. He is most widely known for his crime fiction novels featuring detective Simon Brenner, four of which were made into films. He has won several prizes for his works, including the German prize for crime fiction.
The Mann family is a German dynasty of novelists and an old Hanseatic family of patricians from Lübeck. It is known for being the family of the Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Thomas Mann.
Freimut Duve was a German journalist, writer, politician and human rights activist. From 1980 to 1998 he was a member of the Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was the first OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media from 1998 to 2003. He was lesser known on the German literary scene.
Soldiers: An Obituary for Geneva is a 1967 play by Rolf Hochhuth which makes unverified claims about an attempt by Winston Churchill to appease Joseph Stalin. It alleges that he was involved in the murder of the Polish Prime Minister, General Władysław Sikorski, in an airplane crash in 1943.
Vienna Blood is a 1942 German operetta film, based on the 1899 operetta of the same name. With box-office takings of seven million Reichsmarks, it was one of the most financially successful films of the Nazi era.
Otto F. Walter was a Swiss publisher, author and novelist, which is well known in the German language countries. Otto Friedrich Walter was the younger brother of Silja Walter, a Benedictine nun in the Fahr Abbey and also a popular writer.
Fritz Joachim Raddatz was a German feuilletonist, essayist, biographer, journalist and romancier.
Adolf Frisé was a German journalist, author and editor. He was the editor of the literary works of the Austrian philosophical writer Robert Musil.
Eva Maria Chamberlain was the daughter of Richard Wagner and Cosima Wagner, and the wife of Houston Stewart Chamberlain. When she was born, her mother was still married to Hans von Bülow. Through her mother, she was also a granddaughter of Franz Liszt. With her siblings Isolde and Siegfried, Eva was brought up by a house teacher.