Alex Wedding Prize
The Alex Wedding Prize was a literary prize for books for children and young people that was awarded every two to three years by the Berlin Academy of the Arts on the occasion of the birthday of Alex Wedding (formerly Grete Weiskopf) . The prize was donated in 1967 from the estate of the namesake and was awarded every two to three years on May 11th, her birthday. It was last endowed with 5000 euros. The last award was in 2008.
Award winners
- 1968: Willi Meinck
- 1969: Karl Neumann
- 1970: Kurt David
- 1971: Joachim Nowotny
- 1972: Götz R. Richter
- 1973: Herbert Friedrich
- 1977: Peter Brock
- 1979: Hans Weber
- 1980: Hildegard and Siegfried Schumacher
- 1981: Klaus Beuchler
- 1982: Hannes Hüttner
- 1983: Peter Abraham
- 1984: Lilo Hardel
- 1985: Werner Lindemann
- 1986: Gunter Preuss
- 1987: Wolf Spillner
- 1988: Werner Heiduczek
- 1989: Maria Seidemann
- 1990: Walther Petri
- 1991: Anne Geelhaar , Christa Kozik
- 1993: Peter Hacks
- 1998: Klaus Kordon
- 2000: Benno Pludra
- 2003: FK Waechter
- 2008: Karla Schneider
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Orlick: Reminiscence to Alex Wedding , ossietzky.net, edition 6/2016, accessed on May 11, 2019