Authors Foundation

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The Authors' Foundation Frankfurt am Main was founded in 1973 by the Hamburg businessman Wolf Boehlich in Frankfurt am Main and has since been financed mainly through donations from authors from the Verlag der Autor Verlag . The foundation is non-profit within the meaning of the Hessian Foundation Act and, according to its constitution, is primarily responsible for promoting the performing arts.

The foundation's board of directors determines the foundation's projects to be funded. As a rule, he works on his own initiative, so applications for funding for authors are not possible. However, the board is happy to receive suggestions for funding specific projects in the performing arts.

Duties of the authors' foundation

The authors' foundation has initiated or supported important projects in recent years. As an important and special book project, it made the continuation of the special film magazine Revolver possible.

She has carried out many events, especially in the field of children's theater and film. From 2000 to 2003 she initiated and financed the “Treatment Thesaurus”, a project to develop synopsis of treatments and screenplays for German films. In 2005, the Authors' Foundation ran a children's theater competition, an attempt to encourage authors to write their first plays for the neglected genre of children's theater. An expert jury selected four winners from 226 applications (including Lothar Kittstein ). As a matter of principle, the Authors' Foundation supports and promotes talented and needy authors who work for the theater, radio, television and film. It promotes the performing arts by awarding prizes and granting scholarships and grants to talented theater and literary producers. It promotes the implementation of events, especially seminars, symposiums and discussion forums, helps with the editing of important publications and supports various projects, especially in the field of the performing arts.

Authors' price

In more than 30 years, the authors' foundation has awarded over 40 prizes to authors (including translators), almost always prizes and grants for beginning authors, prizes for first plays, for innovative radio and television plays, but also for one or the other cinematic Complete works and in 2014 for the first time for a documentary. In addition, translators who had set themselves special tasks (e.g. translating the dramas of the French classical period) were also supported.

The award of the authors was u. a. awarded to the playwrights Klaus Pohl , Thomas Hürlimann , Kerstin Specht , Thomas Jonigk , Gert Jonke , Dea Loher , Theresia Walser and Thomas Oberender , the translators Peter Krumme and Simon Werle , the radio play authors Hubert Wiedfeld and Margarete Jehn and the filmmakers Helma Sanders-Brahms and Sohrab Shahid Saless .

The Authors' Prize has had the following winners since 2007:

Board

The foundation's board currently consists of Khyana el Bitar (Berlin), Ulrich Hub (Berlin), Annette Reschke (also executive board member, Frankfurt am Main) and Claudius Lünstedt (Berlin).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the history of the foundation on the homepage of the publishing house of the authors (accessed on July 26, 2014)
  2. ↑ Kulturpur.de: Lothar Kittstein: Visiting (accessed on July 26, 2014)
  3. ↑ Claudius Lünstedt: Price of the authors 2014: Jerusalem for Cowards. In: faustkultur.de. July 2, 2014, accessed October 3, 2016 .
  4. ↑ www.schmoe.de, Frankfurt and Janis Elko: AUTHOR FOUNDATION :: Verlag der Autoren. Retrieved on February 21, 2018 (German).

Web links

The authors' foundation Frankfurt am Main on the homepage of the publishing house of the authors