Johannes Bobrowski, the Glossary
Johannes Bobrowski (originally Johannes Konrad Bernhard Bobrowski; 9 April 1917 – 2 September 1965) was a German lyric poet, narrative writer, adaptor and essayist.[1]
Table of Contents
35 relations: Aschaffenburg, Baltic languages, Berlin, Berlin Wall, Confessing Church, DEFA, East Berlin, East Prussia, Ernst Wiechert, France, Friedrichshagen, German resistance to Nazism, Group 47, Gymnasium (school), Harry Kupfer, Heinrich Mann Prize, Horst Seemann, Humboldt University of Berlin, Katja Paryla, Königsberg, Kętrzyn, Literary estate, Matthew Mead (poet), Nazism, Poland, Sarmatians, Slavic languages, Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Soviet Union, Udo Zimmermann, Volker Koepp, Wannsee, West Berlin, West Germany, World War II.
- People from Tilsit
- Writers from East Prussia
Aschaffenburg
Aschaffenburg (Hessian: Aschebersch) is a town in northwest Bavaria, Germany.
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Baltic languages
The Baltic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively or as a second language by a population of about 6.5–7.0 million people mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Europe.
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
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Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; West Germany) from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany).
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Confessing Church
The Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) was a movement within German Protestantism in Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to unify all of the Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi German Evangelical Church.
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DEFA
DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft) was the state-owned film studio of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) throughout the country's existence.
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East Berlin
East Berlin (Ost-Berlin) was the partially recognised capital of East Germany (GDR) from 1949 to 1990.
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East Prussia
East Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945.
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Ernst Wiechert
Ernst Wiechert (18 May 1887 – 24 August 1950) was a German teacher, poet and writer. Johannes Bobrowski and Ernst Wiechert are writers from East Prussia.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
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Friedrichshagen
Friedrichshagen is a German locality (Ortsteil) within the Berlin borough (Bezirk) of Treptow-Köpenick.
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German resistance to Nazism
Many individuals and groups in Germany that were opposed to the Nazi regime engaged in resistance, including attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler or to overthrow his regime.
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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 and 1967.
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Gymnasium (school)
Gymnasium (and variations of the word) is a term in various European languages for a secondary school that prepares students for higher education at a university.
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Harry Kupfer
Harry Alfred Robert Kupfer (12 August 1935 – 30 December 2019) was a German opera director and academic.
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Heinrich Mann Prize
The Heinrich Mann Prize is an essay prize that has been awarded since 1953, first by the East German Academy of Arts, then by the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
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Horst Seemann
Horst Seemann (11 April 1937 – 6 January 2000) was a German film director and screenwriter.
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Humboldt University of Berlin
The Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.
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Katja Paryla
Katharina "Katja" Paryla (25 January 1940 – 25 August 2013) was a German actress, stage director and theatre director.
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Königsberg
Königsberg (Królewiec, Karaliaučius, Kyonigsberg) is the historic German and Prussian name of the medieval city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia.
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Kętrzyn
Kętrzyn (until 1946 Rastembork; Rastenburg) is a town in northeastern Poland with 27,478 inhabitants (2019).
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Literary estate
The literary estate of a deceased author consists mainly of the copyright and other intellectual property rights of published works, including film, translation rights, original manuscripts of published work, unpublished or partially completed work, and papers of intrinsic literary interest such as correspondence or personal diaries and records.
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Matthew Mead (poet)
Matthew Mead (1924 in Buckinghamshire – 2009) was an English poet as well as a translator, with his wife Ruth, of German poets, including Johannes Bobrowski and Nelly Sachs.
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Nazism
Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.
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Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
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Sarmatians
The Sarmatians (Sarmatai; Latin: Sarmatae) were a large confederation of ancient Iranian equestrian nomadic peoples who dominated the Pontic steppe from about the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD.
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Slavic languages
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants.
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Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast
Sovetsk (Сове́тск; Tilsit; Old Prussian: Tilzi; Tilžė) is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the south bank of the Neman River which forms the border with Lithuania.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Udo Zimmermann
Udo Zimmermann (6 October 1943 – 22 October 2021) was a German composer, musicologist, opera director, and conductor.
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Volker Koepp
Volker Koepp (born 22 June 1944) is a German documentary film producer.
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Wannsee
Wannsee is a locality in the southwestern Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Germany.
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West Berlin
West Berlin (Berlin (West) or West-Berlin) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin from 1948 until 1990, during the Cold War.
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West Germany
West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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See also
People from Tilsit
- Armin Mueller-Stahl
- Carl Brinkmann
- Daniel Klein (grammarian)
- Dick Shikat
- Edgar Froese
- Elsbeth von Keudell
- Emil Wiechert
- Erna Dorn
- Frank Wisbar
- Franz Abromeit
- Franz Meyen
- Franz Scheidies
- Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern
- Günter Wyszecki
- Georg Friedrich Schlater
- Gustaf Kossinna
- Hans Victor von Unruh
- Jürgen Kurbjuhn
- Joachim Sadrozinski
- Johann Christian Jacobi (oboist)
- Johanna Wolff
- Johannes Bobrowski
- John Kay (musician)
- Karl Hermann Martell
- Klaus-Dieter Sieloff
- Louis Kolitz
- Margarete Poehlmann
- Max Gülstorff
- Max Scherwinsky
- Max von Schenkendorf
- Otto Guelstorff
- Raphael Friedeberg
- Sabine Bethmann
- Siegfried Graetschus
- Walter Weiß
- Werner Abrolat
- Wilhelm Voigt
Writers from East Prussia
- Agnes Miegel
- Arno Surminski
- Bernhard Fisch
- Brigitte Birnbaum
- Curt Johannes Braun
- Ernst Wiechert
- Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen
- Hans Hellmut Kirst
- Hans Jürgen Press
- Heinrich Gerlach
- Horst Salomon
- Ieva Simonaitytė
- Johannes Bobrowski
- Julius Bacher
- Mary Saran
- Max von Schenkendorf
- Michael Wieck
- Otto von Corvin
- Paul Gratzik
- Siegfried Lenz
- Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder