PEN center for German-speaking authors abroad

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The PEN Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad is a member of the International PEN It was founded in 1934 by Lion Feuchtwanger , Ernst Toller , Max Herrmann-Neiße and Rudolf Olden in Great Britain under the name “German PEN Club in Exile” and in 1948 as “PEN- Center of German-Speaking Authors Abroad ”. The center had its official seat in London until 2005. Since 2006 it has been based at the place of residence of the respective executive secretary.

This PEN center was at times called Exil-PEN

Since 2017, the PEN Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad has been awarding the OVID Prize every second year for an outstanding literary book publication in one of the three categories of poetry, essay, novel or narrative prose to an author who has written in German over 35 years. In 2017 Guy Stern received the OVID Prize for his life's work, in 2018 Herta Müller was awarded the prize.

President

Honorary President

Secretaries

Board

As of May 2019, the board consists of Guy Stern (President), Helga Druxes (Secretary), Benjamin Stein (Treasurer), Freya Klier (Assessor, Writers in Prison - WiP), Frederick A. Lubich (Assessor), Fred Viebahn (Assessor) , Axel Reitel (assessor, PEN newsletter) and Jutta Birmele (assessor).

Hubert Dammer is the managing director, Gino Leineweber is chairman of the association.

literature

  • PEN Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad (Ed.) Autobiographies. International PEN, Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad , London, 1970
  • Werner Berthold (edit.) / Deutsche Bibliothek, Frankfurt am Main (ed.): The German PEN Club in Exile. 1933-1948. Catalog for the exhibition in the German Library , Booksellers Association, Frankfurt am Main, 1980
  • Karin Reinfrank-Clark (Ed.): Oh, you write in German? Biographies of German-speaking authors from the PEN Abroad , Bleicher, Gerlingen, 1986
  • Arno Reinfrank (Ed.): Ten bars of world music: a poetry anthology by the PEN Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad , Bleicher, Gerlingen, 1988
  • Ilse R. Wolff (Ed.): But the language remains ...: a prose anthology by the PEN Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad , Bleicher, Gerlingen, 1990
  • Fritz Beer (ed.), Uwe Westphal (ed.): Exile without end. The PEN Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad , Bleicher, Gerlingen, 1996
  • Chaim Noll (Ed.): Open questions. 70 years of the PEN center for German-speaking authors abroad , Synchron, Heidelberg, 2005
  • Helmut Peitsch: "No Politics"? The history of the German PEN center in London 1933-2002 , V&R Unipress, Göttingen, 2006
  • Gabrielle Alioth (Ed.), Hans-Christian Oeser (Ed.): Additions - 75 Years of the PEN Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad , Synchron, Heidelberg, 2009, ISBN 978-3-939381-25-9
  • Gabrielle Alioth (Ed.), Hans-Christian Oeser (Ed.): At the intersection of times - authors write about authors , Synchron, Heidelberg, 2012, ISBN 978-3-939381-50-1
  • Gabrielle Alioth (Hrsg.), Martin Dreyfus (Hrsg.): To go and yet stay - authors write about authors , Synchron, Heidelberg, 2014, ISBN 978-3-939381-72-3
  • Gabrielle Alioth (Hrsg.), Hans-Christian Oeser (Hrsg.): Everything changes - Echoes on Ovid , P&L Edition, Munich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95669-083-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Judith von Sternburg: Anyone who is in exile could at least flee , fr.de, accessed on May 9, 2018
  2. ↑ Honorary President. Retrieved May 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Board of Directors. Retrieved May 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Management. Retrieved May 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Friends' Association. Retrieved May 7, 2019 .