Berlin Literature Prize
The Berlin Literature Prize of the Prussian Sea Action Foundation was awarded every two years until 1998 together with the Johannes Bobrowski Medal at the Berlin Literary Colloquium . The literary prize was awarded to authors who have made a significant contribution to the development of contemporary German-language literature.
Since 2005, the award has been presented according to a new concept: the previous complete work of a German-speaking writer is recognized. Associated with the award is the appointment to a Heiner Müller visiting professorship for German-language poetics at the Peter Szondi Institute for General and Comparative Literature at the Free University of Berlin in the corresponding summer semester. The endowment is now 30,000 euros from the funds of the Prussian Sea Handling Foundation , which also bears the costs for the visiting professorship. (The name of the professorship goes back to Heiner Müller's widow .)
Award winners
- 1989 Volker Braun
- 1992 Christoph Hein , Wolfgang Hilbig , Thomas Hürlimann , Ingomar von Kieseritzky , Uwe Kolbe
- 1994 Jürgen Becker , Hugo Dittberner , Norbert Gstrein , Brigitte Kronauer , Reinhard Lettau , WG Sebald
- 1996 Wilhelm Genazino , Katja Lange-Müller , Ulrich Peltzer , Raoul Schrott , Josef Winkler
- 1998 Anne Duden , Bodo Hell , Gert Jonke , Irina Liebmann , Jörg Steiner
- 2005 Herta Müller
- 2006 Durs Grünbein
- 2007 Ilija Trojanow
- 2008 Ulrich Peltzer
- 2009 Dea Loher
- 2010 Sibylle Lewitscharoff
- 2011 Thomas Lehr
- 2012 Rainald Goetz
- 2013 Lukas Bärfuss
- 2014 Hans Joachim Schädlich
- 2015 Olga Martynova
- 2016 Feridun Zaimoglu
- 2017 Ilma Rakusa
- 2018 Marion Poschmann
- 2019 Clemens J. Setz
- 2020 Thomas Meinecke
Web links
- Berlin Literature Prize at the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation
- Statutes and list of winners (PDF, 88 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 40 photos and text accompanying the award ceremony
- ↑ 137 photos and text accompanying the award ceremony
- ↑ Lukas Bärfuss receives the Berlin Literature Prize 2013 , accessed on October 22, 2012
- ↑ Carsten Wette: Ilma Rakusa receives the Berlin Literature Prize 2017. Freie Universität Berlin, press release from October 14, 2016 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on October 14, 2016.
- ↑ buchmarkt.de of October 11, 2019: Thomas Meinecke receives the Berlin Literature Prize 2020 , accessed on October 11, 2019