Group 47
Group 47 (in German Gruppe 47 ) was a group of writer S German (German literature and literature political), created in 1947 and dissolved in 1967.
Its influence on the re-creation of a Germanic literature after the Second world war is essential. Among the most prestigious writers who revolved around group 47: Heinrich Böll, Ingeborg Bachmann, Fatty Günter, Uwe Johnson.
One generally regards Hans Werner Richter as the founder, or the organizer of the group.
Literary prizes
From 1950, the Literary prize of Group 47 was allotted to still unknown authors. At the beginning, the reward was collected among the members of Group 47, later it was offered by various editors and radio stations (or even offered by Grass and Böll in 1967).
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1950 : Günter Eich, for poems drawn from " Abgelegene Gehöfte"
- 1951 : Heinrich Böll, for the satire " Die schwarzen Schafe"
- 1952 : Ilse Aichinger, for " Spiegelgeschichte"
- 1953 : Ingeborg Bachmann, for four poems drawn from " Die gestundete Zeit"
- 1954 : Adriaan Morriën, for the satire " Zu große Gastlichkeit verjagt die Gäste"
- 1955 : Martin Walser, for the account Templones Ende"
- 1958 : Fatty Günter, for the first chapter of the Drum
- 1962: Johannes Bobrowski, for poems drawn from " Sarmatische Zeit"
- 1965 : Peter Bichsel, for a reading of an extract of the novel " Die Jahreszeiten"
- 1967 : Jürgen Becker, for a reading of an extract of " Ränder"
Famous members
- Carl Amery
- Alfred Andersch
- Ingeborg Bachmann
- Jürgen Becker
- Peter Bichsel
- Johannes Bobrowski
- Heinrich Böll
- Nicolas Born
- Paul Celan
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Günter Eich
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- Hubert Fichte
- Erich Fried
- Heinz Friedrich
- Fatty Günter
- Walter Maria Guggenheimer
- Peter Handke
- Helmut Heißenbüttel
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer
- Gustav Rene Hocke
- Walter Höllerer
- Walter Jens
- Uwe Johnson
- Joachim Kaiser
- Hellmuth Karasek
- Erich Kästner
- Alexander Kluge
- Wolfgang Koeppen
- Walter Kolbenhoff
- Barbara König
- Karl Krolow
- Siegfried Lenz
- Reinhard Lettau
- Jakov Lind
- Hans Mayer
- Ivan Nagel
- Rüdiger Proske
- Fritz J. Raddatz
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki
- Ruth Rehmann
- Hans Werner Richter (Founder and organizer)
- Toni Richter
- Klaus Roehler
- Peter Rühmkorf
- Hans Sahl
- Franz-Joseph Schneider
- Ilse Schneider-Lengyel
- Wolfdietrich Schnurre
- Martin Walser
- Peter Weiss
- Dieter Wellershoff
- Wolfgang Weyrauch
- Ror Wolf
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