Bauernfeld Prize
The Bauernfeld Prize is an Austrian literary prize that was awarded from 1894 to 1923 in honor of Eduard von Bauernfeld for important stage plays.
Award winner (incomplete)
- 1899 Arthur Schnitzler
- 1901 Marie Eugenie Delle Grazie
- 1902 Stephan von Millenkovich and Felix Dörmann
- 1904 Hermann Bahr , Wilhelm Hegeler , Marie Herzfeld , Hermann Hesse , Thomas Mann , Carl Spitteler , Josef Werkmann (pseudonym of Joseph Medelsky )
- 1905 Jakob Julius David (1000 Kronen), Alexander von Weilen (1000 Kronen), Josef Viktor Widmann (2000 Kronen)
- 1908 Karl Schönherr
- 1910 Fritz Stüber-Gunther
- 1911 Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer
- 1914 Max Mell
- 1917 Wladimir von Hartlieb , Rudolf Holzer and Rudolf Alexander Schröder
- 1918 Ernst Lothar
- 1919 Paul Wertheimer
- 1920 Victor Fleischer
- 1921 Robert Hohlbaum and Franz Nabl
- 1923 Uriel Birnbaum
- Frank Wedekind
- Joseph Roth
reception
The satirist and cultural critic Karl Kraus teased in his gloss I have read : “[…] For many years, in addition to the jesters ' evening of the men's choir , the Gschnas festival of the artists' cooperative and the fools ' evening of the Schubertbund, the distribution of the Bauernfeld Prize has been one of the carnival entertainments in which the humor of the Viennese population cannot do enough with great capers and exuberant ideas. In particular, the distribution of the Farmer's Field Prize, in which the youth conquered the right to dance and the cheerful masking reaches its climax, exerts an attraction that has not diminished over the years as the traditional opportunity to develop cheerfulness and cheerfulness. The joke is organized by Mr. Minor, professor of literary history, Ritter von Stadler, section head in the Ministry of Education, director Gregori, editor Kalbeck and lawyer Weissel. The prizes are distributed in such a way that the very best are always selected by those who do not need it and those who cannot help it and are presented for general enjoyment, be it as the neediest or the most important poets of the year. Poverty and talent are honored in a sense that does justice to the carnival obligations, in that the judges, for the sake of simplification, remove those from the mass of participants who are predestined by talent poverty. [...] "
Individual evidence
- ^ Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien , Vol. 1, p. 279.
- ↑ Prize winners 1904 and 1905 according to the article Distribution of the Bauernfeld Prize in: Die Zeit No. 1135 of November 21, 1905, p. 3 (category “Theater and Art”).
- ^ Hugo von Hofmannsthal - Walther Brecht. Correspondence . Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, p. 12.
- ^ Karl Kraus: Selected works. 1902-1914. Grimaces . Langen Müller, Munich 1971, p. 415 f.