Austrian Society for German Studies
The Austrian Society for German Studies is an Austrian scientific society founded in 1992 .
General
The society was founded in 1992 at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Vienna on the initiative of Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler , who was also its first president until 1996.
The society deals with linguistic and literary matters in the narrower and broader sense and also serves to represent the interests of scientists who work at university and non-university German research institutes or related projects.
The society organizes conferences on a regular basis and there is the publication organ Stimulus published by the society .
Awards
The Society for German Studies awards the national and international " Wendelin-Schmidt-Dengler Prize".
The winners include:
- 2005 Alexandra Strohmaier, Robert Leucht
- 2006 Heidemaria Abfalterer, Fabjan Michael Hafner, Elisabeth Schwagerle
- 2007/2008 Irene Fußl, Andrea Horváth, Ashley Alexandara Passmore
- 2009 Barbara Haider, Simone Fässler, Jean Bertrang Miguoué
- 2010 Matthias Mansky, Klaus Peter
- 2011 Maria Stopfner, Marcel Illetschko, Laurent Dedryvère
- 2012 Evelyn Feichtner-Tiefenbacher
- 2013 Tanja Wissik, Jaromír Czemro
- 2014 Michaela Wiesinger, Aline Vennemann
- 2015 Arno Herberth, Rebecca Unterberger, Nadja Zuzok
- 2016 Paul Keckeis, Anna Havinga