Ben Witter Prize

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The Ben Witter Prize is a German journalism prize.

The prize, donated in his will by Ben Witter (1920–1993), has been awarded annually by the Ben Witter Foundation established for this purpose since 1995 and is endowed with 10,000 euros (as of 2019).

The award honors authors who, through an unconventional view of the world, experiment with unusual literary or journalistic forms and show socially critical humor - which also distinguished the work of Ben Witter.

The jury consists of the foundation's board of directors (2014: attorney Joachim Kersten and the Hamburg journalists Theo Sommer , Aloys Behler and Benedikt Erenz).

In 2006, the prize was not awarded to an author, but to the magazine EXIL , in memory of the sponsor's commitment to German-language exile literature . Edita Koch is the editor of Exil magazine .

Award winners

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Kulturpreise.de
  2. ↑ Ben Witter Prize 2006 on time online .
  3. ↑ EXIL magazine receives Ben Witter Prize 2006 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. , Press release from the University of Hamburg  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-hamburg.de
  4. ↑ Ben Witter Prize 2019 for Axel Hacke , report on Kulturnachrichten.de from January 29, 2019, accessed on January 30, 2019.