Candide Preis
1 appearances
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Edition 1 (1995) Winner
Franz Hodjak
フランツ・ホヤク
Furantsu Hojaku
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1944-09-27 （Sibiu）
- Died
- 2025-07-06 age 80
- Nationality
- German, Romanian
- Languages
- German, Romanian
- Residence History
- Sibiu, Romania → Cluj, Romania → Usingen, Taunus Mountains, Germany
Career
- Occupations
- writer, editor, translator, poet
- Active Years
- 1970-2025
- Affiliations
- Dacia Publishing House
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Cluj | Faculty of Letters | German and Romance Languages and Literature | — | 1960年代後半 | Romania |
University of Cluj
Faculty of Letters
/ German and Romance Languages and Literature
Period:
1960年代後半
Country:
Romania
Studied German and Romance languages and literature
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | City of Mannheim Writer's Scholarship | — | — | City of Mannheim | 受賞 |
| 1990 | Georg Maurer Prize | — | — | Leipzig | 受賞 |
| 1990 | Prize of the State of Carinthia at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize | — | — | State of Carinthia | 受賞 |
| 1991 | Literature Promotion Prize of the Cultural Circle of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) | — | — | Cultural Circle of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) | 受賞 |
| 1992 | Honorary Award for the Andreas Gryphius Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1993 | Frankfurt Poetry Lectures | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1995 | Minden Writer's Scholarship | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1996 | Nikolaus Lenau Prize | — | — | Esslingen Artists' Guild | 受賞 |
| 1997 | Scholarship from the Heinrich Heine House | — | — | Heinrich Heine House of the City of Lüneburg | 受賞 |
| 1998 | Scholarship from the Calwer Hermann Hesse Foundation | — | — | Calwer Hermann Hesse Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2002 | Dresden City Clerk | — | — | City of Dresden | 受賞 |
| 2005 | Kester-Haeusler Award of Honor | — | — | German Schiller Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2013 | Transylvanian Saxon Cultural Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
City of Mannheim Writer's Scholarship
1982
Organization:
City of Mannheim
Result:
受賞
Georg Maurer Prize
1990
Organization:
Leipzig
Result:
受賞
Prize of the State of Carinthia at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
1990
Organization:
State of Carinthia
Result:
受賞
Literature Promotion Prize of the Cultural Circle of the Federation of German Industries (BDI)
1991
Organization:
Cultural Circle of the Federation of German Industries (BDI)
Result:
受賞
Honorary Award for the Andreas Gryphius Prize
1992
Result:
受賞
Frankfurt Poetry Lectures
1993
Result:
受賞
Minden Writer's Scholarship
1995
Result:
受賞
Nikolaus Lenau Prize
1996
Organization:
Esslingen Artists' Guild
Result:
受賞
Scholarship from the Heinrich Heine House
1997
Organization:
Heinrich Heine House of the City of Lüneburg
Result:
受賞
Scholarship from the Calwer Hermann Hesse Foundation
1998
Organization:
Calwer Hermann Hesse Foundation
Result:
受賞
Dresden City Clerk
2002
Organization:
City of Dresden
Result:
受賞
Kester-Haeusler Award of Honor
2005
Organization:
German Schiller Foundation
Result:
受賞
Transylvanian Saxon Cultural Prize
2013
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Transylvanian Speech Exercise
1990 ProseExploration of Transylvanian language and identity
IdentityHomelandExile
Translations
- Romanian, Hungarian
Bibliography
- Fallow Land. Poems.
- Rooms for Play. Poems & Ideas.
- Open Letters.
- The Measure of Heads. Semi-fantastic texts.
- The Humorous Cats. Children's Verses.
- With Polly Knall, one talks about things one takes for granted as if they were self-evident.
- Lilac in the Ear.
- At a Corner Table.
- The Dog Joho (children's book).
- Sight.
- Fridolin Hatches from the Egg (children's book).
- Peaceful Circle. Prose.
- change of air.
- Longing for Fig Brandy.
- Transylvanian Speech Exercise.
- Payday.
- Franz, Story Collector.
- Loss of Land.
- Boundary Stones.
- Arrival Subjunctive.
- The Singers' Dispute.
- A Suitcase Full of Sand.
- The Fascination of a Day That Doesn't Exist.
- The One We Want to Be Is Already Taken. Aphorisms, Notes & an Essay.
- The thought of kidnapping me suggested itself. Poems.
- What never comes again. Poems.
Translations by Author
- Translations from Romanian
Translations of Works
- His poems translated into Romanian and Hungarian
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Poetic proseUse of Transylvanian dialect
- Recurring Motifs
- Loss of homelandSearch for identityExile
Legacy
Pioneer Romanian-German writer who introduced Transylvanian Saxon culture to German literature
Trivia
- Born as a Transylvanian Saxon in Romania, emigrated to Germany in 1992
- Became Mannheim's town writer after the fall of the Berlin Wall
- Continued publishing poetry until 2022, died at age 80