Bertelsmann competition
The Carl Bertelsmann competition was an irregular literary award by C. Bertelsmann Verlag (from 1959 by Sigbert Mohn Verlag , Gütersloh ), which was awarded for various literary genres.
- 1954 for novels
- 1st Prize: Christine Brückner for Marriage Blowing Away the Tracks (15,000 DM )
- 2nd Prize: Erich Landgrebe for In Seven Days (10,000 DM)
- two further prizes: Johannes Weidenheim for The Turkish Our Father and Ernst von Khuon for gold on a dark background (5,000 DM each)
- 1955 for novellas
- 1st prize: Leopold Sievers for serpentines (2,500 DM)
- 2nd prize: Erich Landgrebe (2,500 DM)
- 3rd prize: Maria Müller-Gögler (1,000 DM)
- 1959 for short stories
- 1st prize: Jeannie Ebner for Der Königstiger and Werner Wilk for Hellriegel (each DM 2,000)
- 2nd Prize: Rüdiger Graf for The Land Why (1,000 DM)
In this context, the poetry prize of the Neue Deutsche Hefte was awarded in 1956
- 1st prize: Christine Busta
- 2nd prize: Christine Lavant
- 3rd prize: Doris Mühringer