Book Guild Essay Award
The Book Guild Essay Prize was a biennial essay competition that was advertised with a given topic by the Book Guild Gutenberg from 2000 to 2006 as part of its Zeitkritik edition . In 2004 and 2006 the national Berlin daily taz took part in the competition.
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An independent jury evaluated the entries. The essay prize of the book guild was endowed with 2,500 euros. In addition, the selected essay was published as a book along with nine other shortlisted.
Topics
- 2000 "Equal Opportunities, Social Partnership, Justice - Values with a Future?"
- 2002 "Longing for meaning? Life goals and values in a united Europe ."
- 2004 "An egoistic society ? Living between individualism and solidarity ."
- 2006 "Faith, Love, Hope - The Role of Religion in an Individualized Society."
Prize winners
- 2000 Norbert Olah
- In 2002 to Verena Richter and Thomas Hajduk in equal shares
- 2004 Maren Hombrecher, Romance philologist, author and communication designer from Berlin
- 2006 Michaela Schröder with the essay: The wide-cut cleavage of the soul breast
- 2008 (not awarded for "internal" reasons)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Büchergilde Essaypreis ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
