Günter Grass Foundation
The Günter Grass Foundation Bremen is a foundation under civil law based in Bremen . It was founded in 2000 by companies and the city of Bremen. Its aim is to collect sound and film documents by, with and about the Nobel Prize for Literature Günter Grass in an archive, to document them and to make them accessible for research.
Grass, whose name and work guide this foundation, and his wife Ute also founded the foundation for the benefit of the Roma people, which awards the "Otto Pankok Prize".
An amount of 500,000 euros of the foundation capital comes from a donation from the E.on Group.
For contemporary narrative prose, poetry or essay writing, the foundation awards the international Albatros Literature Prize every two years , which is endowed with 40,000 euros, 25,000 euros for the author and 15,000 euros for the translator of the respective author.
In 2006 the German Academy for Culinary Studies organized a congress in Bremen with the Günter Grass Foundation on the subject of “Eating and drinking in the work of Günter Grass”. The conference contributions were edited by Volker Neuhaus , the then scientific director of the audiovisual archive, and Anselm Weyer, the then scientific employee of the archive, who also curated the accompanying exhibition, in the volume “Kitchen notes. Eating and drinking in the work of Günter Grass ”.
Since 2016, sound and film documents have been researchable online in a web database in the Günter Grass Foundation's media archive.
Günter and Ute Grass Foundation
The Günter Grass Foundation should not be confused with the Günter and Ute Grass Foundation , which was established in 2011 to manage, disseminate and scientifically process the literary and artistic work of the Nobel Prize winner for literature.
Web links
- Homepage of the foundation
- Web database of the media archive of the Günter Grass Foundation
- Allegations of infidelity against ex-managing director of the Weser-Kurier Foundation , April 6, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dispute over a 500,000 euro donation by the energy company E.on , the daily newspaper / taz-Nord, July 31, 2006
- ↑ Sale of the Bremen public utilities shares
- ↑ "People are animals that can cook" , Deutschlandfunk , September 2006
- ↑ [1] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (offline)
- ↑ Web database of the media archive
- ↑ Authority data entry GND 1050255143 , query date: August 3, 2015.
