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Steffen Popp (born in Greifswald, 18 July 1978) is a German poet, novelist and literary translator.
He has translated Ben Lerner and other American poets.
Karen Duve is a German author. After secondary school, she worked as a proof-reader and taxi driver in Hamburg. Since 1990 she has been a freelance writer.
Paul Nizon is a Swiss art historian and writer.
Rita Süssmuth is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She served as the 10th President of the Bundestag.
Aribert Reimann is a German composer, pianist and accompanist, known especially for his literary operas. His version of Shakespeare's King Lear, the opera Lear, was written at the suggestion of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who sang the title role. His opera Medea after Grillparzer's play premiered in 2010 at the Vienna State Opera. He was a professor of contemporary Lied in Hamburg and Berlin. In 2011, he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for his life's work.
Benjamin S. Lerner is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and critic. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Howard Foundation Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a MacArthur Fellow, among other honors. In 2011 he won the "Preis der Stadt Münster für internationale Poesie", the first American to receive the honor. Lerner teaches at Brooklyn College, where he was named a Distinguished Professor of English in 2016.
Durs Grünbein is a German poet and essayist.
Ralf Rothmann is a German novelist, poet, and dramatist. His novels have been translated into several languages with Knife Edge and Young Light being translated into English. Main subject of his work are both the bourgeois and proletarian reality of life in the Ruhr Metropolitan area as well as Berlin with an autobiographically colored focus on alienation, the attempt to escape these situations, and common solitude. His novel "Feuer brennt nicht" (2009) is a very moving portrait of an artist-writer torn between two women paying a high price for his infidelity. It is now (2012) available in English translation as "Fire doesn't burn" published by Seagull Books.
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 in the GDR, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin. After his Abitur he jobbed inter alia as assembler, bookseller and assistant director. From 1967 to 1971 Hein studied philosophy in Leipzig and Berlin. Upon graduation he became dramatic adviser at the Volksbühne in Berlin, where he worked as a resident writer from 1974. Since 1979 Hein has worked as a freelance writer.
Peter-Huchel-Preis is a literature prize awarded in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Peter Huchel Prize for German-language poetry, donated by the state of Baden-Württemberg and Südwestrundfunk, has been awarded since 1983 for an outstanding lyric work of the previous year. The award is endowed with €10,000 and is presented annually on 3 April, Peter Huchel's birthday, in Staufen im Breisgau.
Clemens-Brentano-Preis is a literary prize of Germany. It was established in 1993, and named after the German poet Clemens Brentano. The prize money is €10,000.
Peter Urban was a German writer and translator.
The Prize of the City of Münster for International Poetry is a German poetry and translation prize. The prize money is €15,500.
Ernest Wichner is a German writer, editor, and literary translator of Banat Swabian origin.
The Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft is a German organisation that seeks to address challenges in higher education, science and research. Its programmes and initiatives are aimed at finding workable solutions. The Stifterverband acts first and foremost as a thought leader and provides financial support to actors in academia that develop bottom-up solutions. In the context of its various programmes the Stifterverband frequently collaborates with partners from the business community. Moreover, the Stifterverband acts as a trustee for roughly 400 foundations that support a wide array of projects.
Silke Scheuermann is a German poet and novelist. She was educated in Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Paris. She is best known for her debut novel Die Stunde zwischen Hund und Wolf, which has been translated into ten languages including English. She has won numerous German and European literary prizes and fellowships, including the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Preis, the Leonce-und-Lena-Preis, the Hölty Prize, the Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis, and a Villa Massimo fellowship.
Kathrin Röggla is an Austrian writer, essayist and playwright. She was born in Salzburg, and lives in Berlin since 1992. She has written numerous prose works, including essays, dramas and radio plays. She has won a long range of awards for her literary works.
Dominik Graf is a German film director. He studied film direction at University of Television and Film Munich, from where he graduated in 1975. While he has directed several theatrically released feature films since the 1980s, he more often finds work in television, focussing primarily on the genres police drama, thriller and crime mystery, although he has also made comedies, melodramas, documentaries and essay films. He is an active participant in public discourse about the values of genre film in Germany, through numerous articles, and interviews, some of which have been collected into a book.
Marc Degens is a German novelist, essayist, short-story writer, and musician.
Albrecht Schöne is a German Germanist. From 1960 to 1990 he was a professor of German philology at the University of Göttingen.
Volker Staab is a German architect.
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