Theodor Storm
Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm (1817 – 1888) was a German poet and author.
He was born in Husum ("the grey town by the grey sea") on the west coast of Schleswig of well-to-do parents. While still a student of law, he published a first volume of verse together with the brothers Tycho and Theodor Mommsen.
He worked as a lawyer in Schleswig-Holstein, but emigrated to Thuringia in 1851, leaving his mother's household, and did not return until 1864 to become a writer leaving his homeland in Denmark.
He wrote a number of stories, poems and novellas. His two most well-known works are the novellas Immensee ("Bees' Lake", 1849) and Der Schimmelreiter ("The Rider on the White Horse"), first published in April 1888 in the Deutsche Rundschau. Other published
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Little is known of Wolfram's life. There are no historical documents which mention him, and his works are the sole source of evidence. In Parzival he talks of wir Beier ("we Bavarians") and the dialect of his works is East Franconian. This and a number of geographical references have resulted in the present-day Wolframs-Eschenbach, previously Obereschenbach, near Ansbach in Bavaria, being officially designated as his birthplace. However, the evidence is circumstantial and not without problems - there are at least four other places named Eschenbach in present-day Bavaria, and Wolframs-Esche -
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Thomas Mann
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Franz Kafka
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Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
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Todd Strasser
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Heinrich Mann
A German novelist who wrote works with social themes whose attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of post-Weimar German society led to his exile in 1933.
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Born in Lübeck as the oldest child of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann and Júlia da Silva Bruhns. He was the elder brother of Thomas Mann. His father came from a patrician grain merchant family and was a Senator of the Hanseatic city. After the death of his father, his mother moved the family to Munich, where Heinrich began his career as a freier Schriftsteller or free novelist. -
Gerhart Hauptmann
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Gudrun Pausewang
Gudrun Pausewang (1928 - 2020) was a German writer of children's and teen fiction, also noted in science fiction for young-adult novels like The Last Children of Schewenborn.
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Pausewang was born in Eastern Bohemia of German ancestry and after World War II her family settled in the former West Germany. She later became a teacher and taught in Germany's foreign school services in South America. She has written 86 novels with many of them involving the Third World and environmental concerns.
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Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
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Heinar Kipphardt
Heinar Kipphardt (8 March 1922 - 18 November 1982) was a German writer. He came to prominence with the documentary theatre during the 1960s. He is best known for In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a dramatization of the Oppenheimer security hearing.
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Gianna Molinari
Gianna Molinari wurde 1988 in Basel geboren und lebt in Zürich. Sie studierte von 2009 bis 2012 Literarisches Schreiben am Schweizerischen Literaturinstitut Biel und danach Neuere Deutsche Literatur an der Universität Lausanne. Sie war Stipendiatin der Autorenwerkstatt Prosa 2012 am Literarischen Colloquium Berlin und erhielt im selben Jahr den Preis sowie den Publikumspreis des 17. MDR-Literaturwettbewerbs. Bei den „Tagen der deutschen Literatur“ 2017 in Klagenfurt wurde sie für einen Auszug aus ihrem Debüt „Hier ist noch alles möglich“ mit dem 3sat-Preis ausgezeichnet.
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Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Grimmelshausen was born at Gelnhausen. At the age of ten he was kidnapped by Hessian soldiery, and in their midst tasted the adventures of military life in the Thirty Years' War. At its close, Grimmelshausen entered the service of Franz Egon von Fürstenberg, bishop in Straßburg and in 1665 was made Schultheiss (magistrate) at Renchen in Baden.
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On obtaining this appointment, he devoted himself to literary pursuits, and in 1668 published Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch, d.h. die Beschreibung des Lebens eines seltsamen Vaganten, genannt Melchior Sternfels von Fuchsheim, the greatest German novel of the 17th century. For this work he took as his model the picaresque romances of Spain, already to some extent known in Germany. Simpliciss -
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach was an Austrian writer. Noted for her excellent psychological novels, she is regarded—together with Ferdinand von Saar—as one of the most important German-language writers of the latter portion of the 19th century.
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She was born at the castle of Dubský (Graf von Třebomyslice) family in Zdislavice near Kroměříž in Moravia, Czech Republic, and died in Vienna, Austria.
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Andreas Reckwitz
Andreas Reckwitz is a German sociologist and cultural theorist. He is professor at the institute of social sciences at Humboldt University Berlin.
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Reckwitz studied sociology, Political science and philosophy in Bonn, Hamburg and Cambridge. He graduated 1994 in Cambridge, overseen by Anthony Giddens. He achieved his Dr. phil. in 1999 at Hamburg University. From 2001 to 2005 he worked there as assistant professor at the sociological faculty. In 2005 he became professor for sociology and sociology of culture at Konstanz University, 2010 professor for sociology of culture at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder). In 2020 Reckwitz became professor for sociology and sociology of culture at Humboldt University in Berlin.
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Bernhard Jaumann
Bernhard Jaumann wurde 1957 in Augsburg geboren. Er studierte an der Universität München und arbeitete danach als Gymnasiallehrer für Deutsch, Geschichte, Sozialkunde und Italienisch, unterbrochen von längeren Auslandsaufenthalten in Italien, Australien, Mexico und zuletzt Namibia. Zur Zeit lebt er in Bad Aibling/Bayern und in Montesecco/Italien.
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Ab 1997 schrieb er eine Krimiserie, deren einzelne Bände jeweils einen der fünf Sinne zum Thema haben und in einer anderen Metropole spielen. Danach machte er das kleine italienische Dorf Montesecco zum Schauplatz einer erfolgreichen Krimitrilogie. Seine neuesten Werke um die Windhoeker Polizeiinspektorin Clemencia Garises sind im südlichen Afrika angesiedelt.