Annalize Wagner Prize
The Annalize-Wagner-Preis is a German literary prize that has been awarded annually since 1992 for published or unpublished literary works with reference to the Mecklenburg-Strelitz region or by authors from this region. The award-winning work can be a scientific, popular scientific or belletristic text of all genres and genres. The prize is endowed with 2500 euros.
The award honors the memory of local history researcher , bookseller and writer Annalize Wagner who died in 1986 . The prize is awarded by the Annalize Wagner Foundation , which was established in 1991 by the city of Neubrandenburg on the basis of Annalize Wagner's will. It was the first cultural foundation established in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after 1990 . Two youth prizes (1999), a scholarship (2001) and, from 2003 onwards, “honorable recognitions” endowed with 200 euros to young historians were awarded from the foundation's funds. The city of Neustrelitz has also been honoring the winner with an Annalize Wagner medal since 2006 .
Previous winners were:
- 2020 Elke Pretzel
- 2019 Reinhard Simon for Domjücher fates
- 2018 Peter Walther for Hans Fallada: The Biography
- 2017 Valentine Goby for Children's Rooms: Roman
- 2016 Friederike Drinkuth for “more masculine than her husband”: Duchess Dorothea Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön, wife of Adolf Friedrich III. von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, true regent and city founder of Neustrelitz
- 2015 Natalja Jeske for camp in Neubrandenburg-Fünfeichen 1939–1948: POW camp of the Wehrmacht, repatriation camp, Soviet special camp
- 2014 Gregor Sander for what would have been
- 2013 Hans-Jürgen Spieß and Peter Wernicke for Serrahn - World Natural Heritage in the Müritz National Park
- 2012 Constanze Jaiser and Jacob David Pampuch for a smuggled find from the concentration camp - Remembrance, Art & Human Dignity: Project folder for interdisciplinary teaching
- 2011 Carolin Philipps for Luise - the queen and her siblings
- 2010 Pauline de Bok for Blankow or The Desire for Home
- 2009 Arnold Hückstädt for Fritz Reuter: Letters Vol. 1-3
- 2008 Annette Leo for "This is such a double-edged sword here in our concentration camp ...": Everyday life in Fürstenberg and the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp
- 2007 Sabine Bock for stately homes on the estates and domains in Mecklenburg-Strelitz: Architecture and history
- 2006 Rainer Szczesiak for In Search of Rethra. The "Prillwitz Idols"
- 2005 Wolfgang Barthel for school in Mecklenburg-Strelitz: Studies on the school system in Friedland in the context of the development of the education system in Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1701–1933)
- 2004 Roland Gutsch for two and a half days: Stories
- 2003 Matthias Wolf for theater in Neubrandenburg: Contributions to the history of performing behavior
- 2002 Christiane Witzke for Domjüch: memories of a sanatorium and nursing home in Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- 2001 Scholarship to Marco Zabel for the archival indexing of Annalize Wagner's letter estate in the Karbe-Wagner archive in Neustrelitz
- 2000 Renate Hippauf for Johann Heinrich von Thünen: A picture of life
- 1999 Axel Lubinski for dismissal from the subject association: The emigration to America from Mecklenburg-Strelitz in the 19th century
- 1998 Maria Neuhaus for a former citizen of Neustrelitz, Hans-Jürgen Graf von Blumenthal (1907–1944)
- 1997 Wilfried Bölke for Heinrich Schliemann: A famous Mecklenburg man
- 1996 Dietrich Grünwald started a fight for Turner: the beginnings of patriotic gymnastics and the work of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn in Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- 1995 Werner Lexow for railways in Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- 1994 Anita Heiden-Berndt for Friederike Auguste Krüger
- 1993 Gisela Krull for Von Bauern, Rittern und Gespenstern - the day before yesterday and yesterday in Peckatel
- 1992 Jörg Sachse for the emergency money of today's Neustrelitz district
Individual evidence
Web links
- Annalize Wagner Foundation
- Annalize Wagner Prize on Kulturpreise.de