Bavarian Book Prize

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The Bavarian Book Prize is a literary prize that is organized by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels , Landesverband Bayern, and has been awarded annually since 2014 with the support of the Free State of Bavaria.

Joachim Meyerhoff - Honorary Award 2019

Awards are given to German-language books newly published in the past year in the categories of fiction and non-fiction . In addition, the honorary award from the Bavarian Prime Minister honors the life's work of a well-known writer. The award is linked to prize money of 10,000 euros and a lion from the Nymphenburg porcelain factory . Nominated but not awarded authors will each receive 2000 euros. The Bavarian Book Prize is sponsored by the Free State of Bavaria. Media partners are the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation and the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , the sponsor is the PS saving of the Bavarian savings banks .

Bavarian Book Prize 2019

Characteristics

The Bavarian Book Prize is the successor to the Corine Literature Prize , which was awarded from 2001 to 2011. The book prize was awarded for the first time in 2014. This year the Munich Literature Festival took place at the same time .

The winners are selected by a jury, which is in office for three years. The members of the first jury were Franziska Augstein , Carolin Emcke and Denis Scheck . The chairmanship changed from year to year; In 2015 it was with Carolin Emcke, in 2016 Franziska Augstein was chairwoman. In 2017 the jury consisted of Thea Dorn , Svenja Flaßpöhler and Knut Cordsen ; from 2018 it will be Sandra Kegel , Svenja Flaßpöhler and Knut Cordsen., from 2020 Sonja Zekri , Rainer Moritz and Knut Cordsen, as jury chairmen.

A special feature lies in the rules for awarding prizes. Proposals for the honorary award of the Bavarian Minister-President can be submitted by the expert jury; the Minister-President has the right to decide on the award winner. For the prizes in the categories of fiction and non-fiction, each jury member may choose two works. As a result of the first jury meeting in October, the jury will nominate three books for each category. This list will be published. Unsolicited books or nomination proposals will not be considered. The jury votes on the winners in the categories of fiction and non-fiction immediately before the award ceremony, in the context of a public discussion in front of the invited guests in the Allerheiligen-Hofkirche of the Munich Residenz . In this way, according to Denis Scheck, what “normally takes place in the back rooms of the literary business”, the decision-making of the jury, should come to the public. If they cannot agree on a work for a category within 30 minutes, the price will be forfeited.

Nominated titles and award winners

2014

Fiction

  • Prize winner: Thomas Hettche : Pfaueninsel , (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
  • Also nominated: Nino Harativili : Das eightchte Leben (Für Brilka) , (Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt) and Thomas Kapielski : The dickens, the more yewski! A volume novel , (edition suhrkamp)

Non-fiction

Honorary award from the Bavarian Prime Minister

Silvia Bovenschen

2015

Fiction

  • Prize winner: Angela Steidele : Rosenstengel (Matthes and Seitz)
  • Also nominated: Frank Witzel : The invention of the Red Army Fraction by a manic-depressive teenager in the summer of 1969 (Matthes and Seitz) and Ulrich Peltzer : The better life (S. Fischer Verlag)

Non-fiction

  • Award winner: Reiner Stach : Kafka. The early years (S. Fischer Verlag)
  • Also nominated: Bruno Preisendörfer : When Germany was not yet Germany. Journey to the time of Goethe (Verlag Galiani Berlin) and Monika Rinck : Risk and Idiotie. Pamphlets (kookbooks)

Honorary award from the Bavarian Prime Minister

2016

Bavarian Book Prize 2016: Andrea Wulf, Ruth Klüger, Heinrich Steinfest

Fiction

Non-fiction

Honorary award from the Bavarian Prime Minister

The reasoning stated that the award winner was an “indispensable reminder against forgetting violence and crime, who also takes a critical stance on current political issues”.

2017

Bavarian Book Prize 2017

Fiction

Non-fiction

Honorary award from the Bavarian Prime Minister

2018

Bavarian Book Prize 2018 - Wolfram Eilenberger and Lucy Fricke

Fiction

Non-fiction

  • Award winner Wolfram Eilenberger : Time of the Magician. The great decade of philosophy 1919 - 1929 (Klett-Cotta)
  • also nominated: Thomas Bauer : The disambiguation of the world. On the loss of ambiguity and diversity (Reclam) and Svenja Goltermann : Sacrifice. The perception of war and violence in modern times (S. Fischer)

Honorary award from the Bavarian Prime Minister

2019

Fiction

Non-fiction

  • Prize winner: Jan-Werner Müller : Fear and Freedom. For a different liberalism (Suhrkamp)
  • also nominated: Dieter Thomä : Why democracies need heroes. Plea for contemporary heroism (Ullstein) and Cornelia Koppetsch : The Society of Anger. Right-wing populism in the global age (transcript). Cornelia Koppetsch's book was withdrawn by the jury because of "pending proceedings over allegations that certain formulations do not correspond to the scientific comment".

Honorary award from the Bavarian Prime Minister

Web links

Commons : Bavarian Book Prize  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antje Weber: Jux and Feierei. How the Bavarian Book Prize went to Reiner Stach and Angela Steidele this year. , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 263, 14./15. November 2015, p. R18.
  2. ↑ a b Bavarian Book Prize 2016 / Honorary Prize for Ruth Klüger / boersenblatt.net. In: boersenblatt.net. November 15, 2016, accessed November 23, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Bavarian Book Prize 2014 The six nominees , Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels from October 20, 2014, accessed October 21, 2014
  4. ↑ Press release - Bavarian Book Prize. In: bayerischer-buchpreis.de. December 1, 2016, accessed August 6, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Thea Dorn, Dr. Svenja Flaßpöhler and Knut Cordsen new jurors for the Bavarian Book Prize , buchmarkt.de, April 5, 2017, accessed on April 5, 2017
  6. ↑ Change in the jury of the Bavarian Book Prize: Sandra Kegel succeeds Thea Dorn , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on July 10, 2018
  7. ↑ https://www.boersenblatt.net/news/boersenverein/zwei-neue-jurymitglieder-108815 accessed on June 29, 2020
  8. ↑ a b c d Selection criteria - Bavarian Book Prize. In: bayerischer-buchpreis.de. Retrieved November 23, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Denis Scheck, video recording of the 2014 award ceremony , www.br.de, 6:00 am, accessed on November 10, 2015.
  10. ↑ Denis Scheck, video recording of the 2014 award ceremony , www.br.de, 05:39, accessed on November 10, 2015.
  11. ^ "Stylistic elegance and contagious cheerfulness" www.boersenblatt.net, November 5, 2014, accessed on February 15, 2016.
  12. ↑ 2014 - Bavarian Book Prize. In: bayerischer-buchpreis.de. Retrieved November 23, 2016 .
  13. ↑ 2015 - Bavarian Book Prize. In: bayerischer-buchpreis.de. Retrieved November 23, 2016 .
  14. ^ Announcement on the award of the prize , accessed on November 23, 2016
  15. ↑ orf.at: Franzobel receives Bavarian Book Prize . Article dated November 7, 2017, accessed November 7, 2017.
  16. ↑ Tomi Ungerer receives the honorary award on boersenblatt.net, September 6, 2017, accessed on September 6, 2017
  17. ↑ http://www.bayerischer-buchpreis.de
  18. ^ Honorary award for Christoph Ransmayr on boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on October 4, 2018
  19. ↑ Press release of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels Landesverband Bayern from November 7, 2019
  20. ↑ https://www.br.de/nachrichten/kultur/bayerischer-buchpreis-2019-fuer-joachim-meyerhoff,ReDF0Wm