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Place of Longing and Refuge (13.06.2013)

From 14 June to 10 November 2013 the Buddenbrookhaus will be presenting an exhibition entitled “Heinrich Mann and France”.More ...
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“There are more courageous authors than I” – Sibylle Lewitscharoff Receives the Büchner Prize 2013 (06/06/2013)

The author said that she felt “like a small, brave author in the literary canon” when she was honoured with the Büchner Prize.More ...
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Heroes with No Expiry Date – The Comic Festival 2013 (05/29/2013)

From 29 May until 2 June 2013, the Comic Festival will be bringing well-known names from the comic scene together in Munich.More ...
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Living Like a Poem – Sarah Kirsch Dies (05/23/2013)

On 5 May 2013, the poet Sarah Kirsch died after a short but serious illness in Heide in Schleswig-Holstein.More ...
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World Creators – Landscapes by Wagner, Klinger and May (05/14/2013)

From 16 May until 15 September 2013, the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig (the city’s museum of fine arts) will be bringing together Saxony’s famous sons – Richard Wagner, Karl May and Max Klinger – in an exhibition.More ...
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Mice in Kafka’s Work – The Exhibition “Kafka‘s Mice” (04/09/2013)

From 10 April until 7 July 2013, an exhibition entitled “Kafka’s Mice” will be on show at the Literaturmuseum der Moderne (i.e. Museum of Modern Literature) in Marbach.More ...
Movimentos 2013; Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company; Choreographie: If At All; Foto: Nevo, Uri

Dance for Tolerance – The Movimentos Festival Weeks 2013 (04/06/2013)

For ten years now, the Autostadt has been staging the Movimentos festival weeks. This year, they are bringing dance, music and theatre to Wolfsburg until 5 May.More ...
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Rhythmic Speech, Many-Voiced Song – The Peter Huchel Prize 2013 (04/04/2013)

On 3 April 2013, the writer Monika Rinck was awarded the Peter Huchel Prize for German-language poetry for her work “Honigprotokolle”.More ...
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A Work of Art in its Own Right – The Karl Dedecius Prize 2013 (03/23/2013)

On 21 March 2013, the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Deutsches Polen-Institut awarded the Karl Dedecius Prize to the translators Jakub Ekier and Bernhard Hartmann.More ...
Ursula Krechel © Lesekreis

Telephoning with Flies – The lit.Cologne 2013 (03/05/2013)

From 6 until 16 March, national and international authors will be gathering in Cologne to attend the lit.Cologne festival of literature.More ...
Hans Blumenbergs Karteikästen in Marbach vor der Erschließung | © DLA Marbach

Index Cards. Vehicles of the Imagination (03/02/2013)

From 5 March until 15 September, the Literaturmuseum der Moderne (i.e. Museum of Modern Literature) in Marbach will be presenting an exhibition which reveals how writers order their ideas.More ...
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“Books are Friends that always have Time for Us” – On the Death of Otfried Preußler (02/21/2013)

The children’s book author Otfried Preußler died on 18 February 2013 in Prien am Chiemsee. He was 89 years old.More ...
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The Writing President: Theodor Heuss (02/01/2013)

The Theodor Heuss Museum in the town of Brackenheim is paying tribute to the literary achievements of Germany’s former federal president.More ...
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A New Tone – Marjana Gaponenko Awarded the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (01/18/2013)

The writer Marjana Gaponenko is to receive the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize 2013 awarded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung.More ...
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Adventurers of the Mind – The Third Munich Literature Festival (11/14/2012)

More than 100 authors will be descending on Munich for the city’s third Literature Festival from 14 November until 2 December 2012, providing a snapshot of the current literary landscape.More ...
Preisträgerin Ursula Krechel © Claus Setzer

“Found Persons” – Ursula Krechel Awarded the 2012 German Book Prize (10/10/2012)

The German author Ursula Krechel has been awarded with the 2012 German Book Prize for her novel Landgericht.More ...
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“While You Were Sleeping”– The Frankfurt Book Fair 2012 (10/09/2012)

A multitude of publishing firms and authors will present themselves at the Frankfurt Book Fair from 10 until 14 October 2012.More ...
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Ingeborg Bachmann Prize Winner for 2012 – Olga Martynova Says “Hi“ (07/10/2012)

The author Olga Martynova, born in Russia, has been awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for 2012 for her narrative “Ich werde sagen ‘Hi’” (i.e. I’ll say “Hi”).More ...
Plan B © Sebastian Seidel

Bertolt Brecht in Augsburg, Berlin – and the World (02/06/2012)

On 10 February, before and after the poet’s birthday, two festivals will illuminate his political legacy as well as the influence of his works on new international theatrical forms.More ...

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