Jörg Fauser
Jörg Fauser (1944-1987) was a German writer, poet and journalist.
The influence of the American beat generation literature on his works is well known. His later works are mostly detective stories. The novel Der Schneemann was made into a motion picture. Fauser was killed in a traffic accident on a motorway near Munich in 1987.
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Rainald Goetz
Rainald Maria Goetz is a German author, playwright and essayist.
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After studying History and Medicine in Munich and earning a degree (PhD and M.D) in each, he soon concentrated on his writing.
With his first works, especially his novel "Irre" ("Insane"), published in 1983, he became a cult author for the intellectual left. To the delight of his fans and the dismay of some critics he mixed neo-expressionist writing with social realism in the vein of Alfred Döblin and the fast pace of British pop writers like Julie Burchill. During a televised literary tournament in 1983, Goetz slit his own forehead with a razor blade and let the blood run down his face until he finished reading.
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Christian Kracht
Christian Kracht is a Swiss writer and journalist.
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Kracht was born in Saanen. His father, Christian Kracht Sr., was chief representative for the Axel Springer publishing company in the 1960s. Kracht attended Schule Schloss Salem in Baden and Lakefield College School in Ontario, Canada. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, New York, in 1989. -
Wolfgang Borchert
German author and playwright whose work was affected by his experience of dictatorship and his service in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. His work is among the best examples of the Trümmerliteratur movement in post-World War II Germany. His most famous work is the drama "Draußen vor der Tür (The Man Outside)", which he wrote in the first days after World War II. In his works he never makes compromises in questions of humanity and humanism. He is one of the most popular authors of the German postwar period, and today his work is often read in German schools.
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Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
C.F. Ramuz was a French-speaking Swiss writer. Born in Lausanne and educated there he moved to Paris in 1903 where he first published a collection of poems, 'Le petit village.' At the outbreak of WWI in 1914 he returned to Switzerland and devoted his life to writing which included the libretto for Igor Stravinsky's 'Histoire du Soldat' in 1918. He died near his home town. His image now appears on the 200 Swiss Franc note and his foundation awards the quintannual Grand Prix C.F. Ramuz.
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Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre
Possibly Germany’s most well-known young author of the past 15 years, von Stuckrad-Barre stands at the forefront of a new literary movement that moved from Germany’s wartime past and into the 21st century.
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After working for Rolling Stone, von Stuckrad-Barre’s 1998 book Soloalbum (written when he was only 23) captured the emotions of young love to the soundtrack of Oasis and Pearl Jam. After the follow-up Livealbum, von Stuckrad-Barre embarked on various ambitious projects. His self-described goal has always been to reflect “what is going on [in the world]”, and he continues to do so in unconventional ways, sometimes being refered to as the ‘bad boy’ of the German literary scene.
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Max Frisch
Max Rudolph Frisch was born in 1911 in Zurich; the son of Franz Bruno Frisch (an architect) and Karolina Bettina Frisch (née Wildermuth). After studying at the Realgymnasium in Zurich, he enrolled at the University of Zurich in 1930 and began studying German literature, but had to abandon due to financial problems after the death of his father in 1932. Instead, he started working as a journalist and columnist for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), one of the major newspapers in Switzerland. With the NZZ he would entertain a lifelong ambivalent love-hate relationship, for his own views were in stark contrast to the conservative views promulgated by this newspaper. In 1933 he travelled through eastern and south-eastern Europe, and in 1935 he vis
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Thomas Mann
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Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important -
John Fante
Fante's early years were spent in relative poverty. The son of an Italian born father, Nicola Fante, and an Italian-American mother, Mary Capolungo, Fante was educated in various Catholic schools in Boulder and Denver, Colorado, and briefly attended the University of Colorado.
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In 1929, he dropped out of college and moved to Southern California to concentrate on his writing. He lived and worked in Wilmington, Long Beach, and in the Bunker Hill district of downtown Los Angeles, California.
He is known to be one of the first writers to portray the tough times faced by many writers in L.A. His work and style has influenced such similar authors as "Poet Laureate of Skid Row" Charles Bukowski and influential beat generation writer Jack Kerouac. He -
Jon Fosse
Jon Olav Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, black). His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and published in 1994. Jon Fosse has written novels, short stories, poetry, children's books, essays and plays. His works have been translated into more than forty languages. He is widely considered as one of the world's greatest contemporary playwrights. Fosse was made a chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France in 2007. Fosse also has been ranked number 83 on the list of the Top 100 living geniuses by The Daily Telegraph.
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He was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayabl -
Christian Kracht
Christian Kracht is a Swiss writer and journalist.
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Kracht was born in Saanen. His father, Christian Kracht Sr., was chief representative for the Axel Springer publishing company in the 1960s. Kracht attended Schule Schloss Salem in Baden and Lakefield College School in Ontario, Canada. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, New York, in 1989. -
Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre
Possibly Germany’s most well-known young author of the past 15 years, von Stuckrad-Barre stands at the forefront of a new literary movement that moved from Germany’s wartime past and into the 21st century.
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After working for Rolling Stone, von Stuckrad-Barre’s 1998 book Soloalbum (written when he was only 23) captured the emotions of young love to the soundtrack of Oasis and Pearl Jam. After the follow-up Livealbum, von Stuckrad-Barre embarked on various ambitious projects. His self-described goal has always been to reflect “what is going on [in the world]”, and he continues to do so in unconventional ways, sometimes being refered to as the ‘bad boy’ of the German literary scene.
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Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann is a German-Austrian author.
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His novel Measuring the World (German: Die Vermessung der Welt) was translated into more than forty languages. Awards his work has received include the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Heimito von Doderer Literature Award, the Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. Kehlmann divides his time between Vienna and Berlin. -
Wolf Haas
Wolf Haas is the author of nine books in the bestselling Detective Brenner mystery series, three volumes of which have been made into popular German-language films. Among other prizes, the Brenner books have been awarded the German thriller prize and the 2004 Literature Prize from the City of Vienna.
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Paul Auster
Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Bloodbath Nation, Baumgartner, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. Among his other honors are the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Premio Napoli for Sunset Park. In 2012, he was the first recipient of the NYC Literary Honors in the category of fiction. He was also a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions), the PEN/Faulkner Award (The Music of Chance), the Edgar Award (City of Glass), and the Man Booker Prize (4 3 2 1). Auster was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Le
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Heinz Strunk
The musician, actor and writer Heinz Strunk (legal name Mathias Halfpape) was born in Hamburg in 1962. His memoir "Meat is my Veg" has sold half a million copies. It has since been adapted into a prize-winning radio play, an operetta at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus and also a feature film. "The Golden Glove" topped the bestseller lists for months and was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2016. In autumn 2016, he received the Wilhelm Raabe Prize. Strunk is a founding member of the cult comedian trio "Studio Braun" and had his own television show on VIVA.
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Leif Randt
Leif Randt (* 1983 in Frankfurt am Main) ist ein deutscher Autor. Er lebt in Maintal-Ost und Berlin.
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Randt studierte Kreatives Schreiben und Kulturjournalismus an der Universität Hildesheim. 2006 war er Finalist beim 14. open mike der Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, 2007 mit dem „Vli-Mintstroem-Projekt“ beim Plopp!-Hörspiel-Award. Er schrieb das Drehbuch „Innocence“ für eine Razor-Film-Produktion und trat 2008 beim PROSANOVA-Festival mit einer Performance auf. 2009 gewann er den Jurypreis des KulturSPIEGEL-Wettbewerbs,[1] im gleichen Jahr erschien sein Roman „Leuchtspielhaus“ im Berlin Verlag. Im Jahr 2010 gewann Randt den 1. Preis des MDR-Literaturpreises und erhielt den Nicolas-Born-Debütpreis der Niedersächsischen Literaturkommission. In der P -
Édouard Louis
Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. From 2008 to 2010 he was a delegate of the Amiens Academy to the National Council for High School Life, then studied history at the University of Picardy.
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From 2011, he is pursuing sociology studies at the ENS in the rue d'Ulm. In 2013, he obtained a name change and became Édouard Louis.
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Caroline Wahl
Caroline Wahl (born 1995 in Mainz) is a German author. Her debut novel, 22 Bahnen, was published in April 2023 by DuMont Buchverlag. After her school days, she studied German studies and German literature in Tübingen and Berlin. After that and among other things, she worked as a publishing assistant of the Diogenes Verlag in Zürich. Her love of the sea led her to Northern Germany in 2022 where she worked for a communications agency in Rostock. Since the success of her debut novel, she lives as an independent author in the Hansestadt.
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Toxische Pommes
Toxische Pommes heißt im wahren Leben Irina und arbeitet als Juristin in Wien. Sie hat Hunderttausende Follower auf TikTok und Instagram und spielt ihr Kabarettprogramm "Ketchup, Mayo & Ajvar - Die sieben Todsünden des Ausländers" vor ausverkauften Häusern in Österreich und Deutschland.
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Joshua Groß
Joshua Groß, 1989 in Grünsberg geboren, studierte Politikwissenschaft, Ökonomie und Ethik der Textkulturen. 2018 war er zu den Tagen der deutschsprachigen Literatur nach Klagenfurt eingeladen und 2019 erhielt er den Anna Seghers-Preis. Er ist einer der Herausgeber der Anthologie "Mindstate Malibu".
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