Arno Reinfrank Literature Prize

The Arno Reinfrank Literature Prize was founded in 2005 by Jeanette Koch, the widow of the writer Arno Reinfrank , who died in 2001 , and the city of Speyer . The award for German-speaking writers has been presented every three years since 2006 and is endowed with 5000 euros.

background

The Arno Reinfrank Literature Prize commemorates the writer and his diverse references to his home in the Palatinate and to Speyer, where the Palatinate State Library keeps his estate. According to the announcement, the authors who have been awarded for “their outstanding achievements in poetry or prose”, like Arno Reinfrank, should be “committed to the ideals of humanism and the Enlightenment”.

Award winners

• 2006 Jan Wagner
• 2009 Monika Rinck
• 2012 Daniela Dröscher
• 2015 Svenja Leiber
• 2018 Björn Kuhligk

Youth award

The Arno Reinfrank Youth Prize has been awarded every two years since 2007. It is advertised , also by Jeanette Koch, for the poetry and short story categories and according to age groups.

Web links

• Arno Reinfrank Literature Prize
• City of Speyer: Foundation of the Literature Prize

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reinfrank Prize. Prize winners 2006. speyer.de, accessed on May 25, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Reinfrank Prize. Prize winner 2009. speyer.de, accessed on May 25, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Reinfrank Prize. Prize winner 2012. speyer.de, accessed on May 25, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Reinfrank Prize. Award winner 2015. speyer.de, accessed on May 25, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Arno Reinfrank Literature Prize for Björn Kuhligk , buchmarkt.de, published and accessed on February 2, 2018
6. ↑ Arno Reinfrank Youth Prize ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.