International Lenau Society

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The International Lenau Society (ILG) is an association to promote the scientific and artistic examination of the work and personality of Nikolaus Lenau . It was founded in Stockerau in 1964 and is based in Vienna .

tasks and goals

The International Lenau Society was founded on October 13, 1964 in Stockerau with the support of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and with the help of Nikolaus Britz , professor at the Pedagogical Academy in Baden . The aim of the International Lenau Society is to bring people together and to promote the work and personality of Nikolaus Lenau.

In the year of its founding, the ILG founded the Nikolaus Lenau Prize with the aim of drawing attention to the poet and the aftereffects of his poems in Europe and around the world, while at the same time making it clear that the poet's central questions are also today are still up to date.

Meetings of the International Lenau Society take place regularly in Baden-Württemberg , Austria , Hungary , Romania , Poland and Slovakia . To mark the twentieth anniversary of the Society, the anthology Comparative Literature Research was published in 1984 , edited by Antal Mädl and Anton Schwob . On behalf of the International Lenau Society, the first volumes of the new historical-critical complete edition of the Lenau works were published in 1987. The international editorial board consisted of German, Austrian, Polish and Hungarian experts. In 1993 the ILG organized a Nikolaus Lenau traveling exhibition in Munich in cooperation with the “Südostdeutsche Kulturwerk” and the celebration of the company's thirty years in Stockerau and Mosonmagyaróvár .

ILG publication series

The organs of publication of the International Lenau Society are:

  • the Lenau Forum : Quarterly publication for comparative literary research (1969–1995)
  • the Lenau yearbook : annual journal for comparative literature (1996-2004)
  • the Lenau-Almanach : annual publication in cooperation with the Research and Culture Center of Austrians from the Danube, Sudeten and Carpathian regions
  • Scientific book series of the International Lenau Society

Nikolaus Lenau Prize

The KünstlerGilde Esslingen has been awarding the Nikolaus Lenau Prize since 1985, together with the city of Esslingen am Neckar since 2008 . German-speaking authors who have published a volume of poetry in the last two years are honored. Previous winners include a .:

literature

Individual evidence

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  3. ^ Entry in the DNB
  4. ^ Entry in the DNB
  5. ↑ Nikolaus-Lenau-Preis on Künstlergilde.eu, accessed on April 9, 2019
  6. ↑ Sylvia Floetemeyer: Nikolaus Lenau Prize for Monika Taubitz. In: Südkurier. November 17, 2016, accessed December 14, 2016 .