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Uwe Johnson

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Uwe Johnson (20 July 1934 – 22 February 1984) was a German writer, editor, and scholar. [1]

44 relations: Anniversaries. From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, Bertolt Brecht, Braunschweig, Cologne, Communism, Darmstadt, East Germany, Editing, English language, Ernst Barlach, Güstrow, Georg Büchner Prize, German language, Group 47, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Herman Melville, Isle of Sheppey, John Knowles, Kamień Pomorski, Kommune 1, Lübeck, Leipzig, Margret Boveri, Mecklenburg, Middle High German, PEN International, Philipp Otto Runge, Philology, Poland, Pomerania, Prix Formentor, Province of Pomerania (1815–1945), Riverside Drive (Manhattan), Rostock, Samuel Beckett, Sheerness, Soviet Union, Suhrkamp Verlag, Swedes, Tomislav Volek, Villa Massimo, West Berlin, Western Pomerania, Writer's block.

Anniversaries. From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl

Jahrestage 1-4: Aus dem Leben von Gesine Cresspahl (volumes 1-2 translated into English as Anniversaries - from the Life of Gesine Cresspahl) is a tetralogy of novels by Uwe Johnson begun in 1970, further volumes 1971, 1973, and completed in 1983.

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Braunschweig

Braunschweig (Low German: Brunswiek), also called Brunswick in English, is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river which connects it to the North Sea via the Aller and Weser rivers.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln,, Kölle) is the largest city in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth most populated city in Germany (after Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich).

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Communism

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.

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Darmstadt

Darmstadt is a city in the state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region).

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East Germany

East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR), existed from 1949 to 1990 and covers the period when the eastern portion of Germany existed as a state that was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War period.

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Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Ernst Barlach

Ernst Barlach (2 January 1870 in Wedel – 24 October 1938 in Rostock) was a German expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer.

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Güstrow

Güstrow (Latin Gustrovium) is a town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

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Georg Büchner Prize

The Georg Büchner Prize (Georg-Büchner-Preis) is—along with the Goethe Prize—the most important literary prize for the German language.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Group 47

Gruppe 47 (Group 47) was a group of participants in German writers' meetings, invited by Hans Werner Richter between 1947-1967.

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Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Hans Magnus Enzensberger (born 11 November 1929 in Kaufbeuren) is a German author, poet, translator and editor.

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.

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Isle of Sheppey

The Isle of Sheppey is an island off the northern coast of Kent, England in the Thames Estuary, some to the east of London.

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John Knowles

John Knowles (September 16, 1926 – November 29, 2001) was an American novelist best known for A Separate Peace (1959).

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Kamień Pomorski

Kamień Pomorski (Cammin or Kammin; Kamién) is a town in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship of north-western Poland, on the Baltic coast.

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Kommune 1

Kommune 1 or K1 was the first politically motivated commune in Germany.

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Lübeck

Lübeck is a city in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, and one of the major ports of Germany.

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Leipzig

Leipzig is the most populous city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.

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Margret Boveri

Margret Antonie Boveri (14 August 1900 – 6 July 1975) was one of the best-known German journalists and writers of the post-World War II period.

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Mecklenburg

Mecklenburg (locally, Low German: Mękel(n)borg) is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

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Middle High German

Middle High German (abbreviated MHG, Mittelhochdeutsch, abbr. Mhd.) is the term for the form of German spoken in the High Middle Ages.

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PEN International

PEN International (known as International PEN until 2010) is a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere.

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Philipp Otto Runge

Philipp Otto Runge (23 July 1777 – 2 December 1810) was a Romantic German painter and draughtsman.

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Philology

Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is a combination of literary criticism, history, and linguistics.

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Poland

Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.

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Pomerania

Pomerania (Pomorze; German, Low German and North Germanic languages: Pommern; Kashubian: Pòmòrskô) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Germany and Poland.

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Prix Formentor

The Prix Formentor (also known as Premio Formentor de las Letras, Formentor Literature Prize and The Formentor Prize) is an international literary award given between 1961 and 1967.

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Province of Pomerania (1815–1945)

The Province of Pomerania (Provinz Pommern) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1815 until 1945.

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Riverside Drive (Manhattan)

Riverside Drive is a scenic north-south thoroughfare in the Manhattan borough of New York City.

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Rostock

Rostock is a city in the north German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet, and literary translator who lived in Paris for most of his adult life.

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Sheerness

Sheerness is a town beside the mouth of the River Medway on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Suhrkamp Verlag

Suhrkamp Verlag is a German publishing house, established in 1950 and generally acknowledged as one of the leading European publishers of fine literature.

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Swedes

Swedes (svenskar) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Sweden.

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Tomislav Volek

Tomislav Volek, is a Czech musicologist who is best known for his research on the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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Villa Massimo

Villa Massimo, short for Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo (Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo), is a German cultural institution in Rome, established in 1910 and located in the Villa Massimo.

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West Berlin

West Berlin (Berlin (West) or colloquially West-Berlin) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War.

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Western Pomerania

Western Pomerania, also called Cispomerania or Hither Pomerania (Vorpommern), is the western extremity of the historic region of the duchy, later Province of Pomerania, nowadays divided between the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Poland.

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Writer's block

Writer's block is a condition, primarily associated with writing, in which an author loses the ability to produce new work, or experiences a creative slowdown.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Johnson

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