Franz Grillparzer Prize

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The Grillparzer Prize is a literary prize that was donated by his fiancée Katharina Fröhlich in 1872 on the 80th birthday of Franz Grillparzer . The foundation amount went to the Academy of Sciences in Vienna after the death of his fiancée .

The prize was awarded every third year until 1971 for “the relatively best German dramatic work that has been performed on a well-known stage in the course of the last 3 years and has not previously been awarded a prize by another party”.

Laureate of the Academy of Sciences 1875-1938

In the years 1878, 1881 and 1893 the prize was not awarded. In 1914 Arthur Schnitzler was proposed with his play Professor Bernhardi . The award ceremony is said to have been prevented by the philosopher Friedrich Jodl .

Grillparzer Prize of the City of Vienna in the years of National Socialism

The award took place (from 1942) on January 15th, Grillparzer's birthday, and was carried out by Baldur von Schirach , the Gauleiter and Reich Governor of the Reichsgau Vienna . The artist was also awarded 10,000 Reichsmarks. The jury consisted of a maximum of eight people appointed by the Reich Governor. The Reich Governor's personal cultural advisor belonged to her; the head of the cultural office of the city of Vienna chaired the meeting.

Winner of the Academy of Sciences 1947-1971

In 1968 the physicists of Friedrich Dürrenmatt were originally supposed to be awarded, but at the urging of the academy the award was changed to the less science-critical work Visit of the Old Lady .

Grillparzer Prize from 1990

In the summer of 1990, the disappearance of the Grillparzer Prize was made public by the cultural journalist Christian Michelides . A committee was then formed to save the Grillparzer Prize , which the Austrian Academy of Sciences reported for embezzlement . However, the responsible minister of culture, Erhard Busek, refused - for budget reasons - to reassign the old prize.

From 1991 to 1993 a culture and literature prize made available by the Hamburg Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS for outstanding achievements, primarily in the field of Austrian intellectual life, was awarded by the University of Vienna . This award was the cause of severe criticism in Austria in 1991 , both because of the founder’s great German past and because of the poems glorifying National Socialism by juror Gertrud Fussenegger . In 1992, the award winner Hans Lebert could not take part in the award ceremony due to health problems, but he had the castle actor Wolfgang Gasser read out his speech, an armed reckoning with the great German ideology of the founder. The German ambassador Philipp Jenninger left the room indignant.

In 1993, anonymous actionists awarded around twenty-seven Grillparzer prizes to almost all of Austria's well-known authors, sending telegrams to the fictitious award winners on the one hand, on behalf of the University of Vienna, and at the same time sending fake award announcements to the media, and a different prize winner to each newspaper. A large number of false reports were the result, numerous writers were happy about the wrong award and accepted the award. The actual winner of the Toepfer Grillparzer Prize was Albert Drach , who was already marked by forgetfulness at the time , and who actually received and accepted the prize under massive police protection. The price was then set.

Prize winner of the Hamburg Toepfer Foundation

The prize donated by Alfred Toepfer was awarded for outstanding achievements primarily in the field of Austrian intellectual life. The prize provided by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS was awarded by the University of Vienna . Have received this award:

Anonymous Actionists Award Winners

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on the Franz Grillparzer Prize in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon ) accessed on December 16, 2011
  2. ↑ The Grillparzer Prize 1914 - a symptom in Above all, I am accessed on February 3, 2013