Lake Constance Literature Prize
The City of Überlingen's Lake Constance Literature Prize was founded in 1954 by the city of Überlingen on Lake Constance . It has been awarded annually since then, and since 1981 usually every two years.
The winner is selected by an independent jury. The organization is carried out by the City of Überlingen's Culture Service. German, Swiss or Austrian writers, historians, art historians and cultural scientists who work in the Lake Constance region and / or have written works about the region are eligible for the award. The award is endowed with 5,000 euros.
Award winners
- 1954 Wolfram von den Steinen for Notker the poet and his spiritual world
- 1955 Friedrich Georg Jünger for "his lyrical work"
- 1956 Leopold Ziegler for "his philosophical work"
- 1957 Richard Beitl for "his folkloristic and narrative work"
- 1958 Mary Lavater-Sloman for loneliness
- 1959 Wilhelm Boeck for Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer
- 1960 Johannes Duft for his Bibliotheca Sangallensis
- 1961 Albert Knoepfli for "his art-historical work"
- 1962 Felix Freiherr von Hornstein for forest and people
- Suspended in 1963
- 1964 Jacob Picard for The Old Teaching
- 1965 Otto Feger for the history of the Lake Constance area
- 1966 Albert Bächtold for "his narrative work"
- 1967 Martin Walser for "his complete works"
- 1968 Georg Siemens for "his narrative and scientific work"
- 1969 Gebhard Spahr for his book about the Weingartner song manuscript
- Exposed in 1970
- 1971 Claus Zoege von Manteuffel for the Zürn family of sculptors
- 1972 Werner Koch for Sea Life
- Exposed in 1973
- 1974 Ernst Benz for Spirit and Landscape
- 1975 Horst Stern for "his journalistic activities, especially with regard to the ecology of the Lake Constance area"
- Suspended in 1976 and 1977
- 1978 Manfred Bosch for "his poems in Radolfzell dialect and his essays"
- 1979 Arno Borst for monks on Lake Constance 610-1525
- 1980 Otto Frei for "his narrative work"
- 1981 Hermann Kinder for “his epic prose” and Peter Renz for preliminary reassurance
- 1983 Ingrid Puganigg for Carnival
- 1985 Werner Dürrson for Das Kattenhorner Schweigen
- 1987 Golo Mann for "his essayistic and autobiographical writings applicable to Lake Constance"
- 1989 Hans Boesch for Der Sog
- 1991 Bruno Epple for "his literary work"
- 1993 Pirmin Meier for Paracelsus - doctor and prophet
- Suspended in 1995
- 1997 Manfred Bosch for Bohème on Lake Constance
- 1999 Beat Brechbühl for a trip on foot with Adolf Dietrich and for his contributions to On the Back of the Lake
- 2001 Werner Mezger for The Great Book of the Swabian-Alemannic Carnival
- 2004 Zsuzsanna Gahse for through and through. Müllheim / Thur in three chapters
- 2006 Markus Werner for Am Hang
- 2008 Michael Köhlmeier for Occident
- 2010 Christian Uetz for his complete literary works to date
- 2012 Peter Stamm for his complete literary works to date
- 2014 Arnold Stadler for his complete literary works to date
- 2016 Peter Salomon for his complete literary works to date
- 2018 Eva Gesine Baur for her complete oeuvre to date
- 2020 Monika Helfer for her complete work (will be presented at the Landesgartenschau Überlingen 2021 on September 19, 2021)
literature
- Oswald Burger: The Bodensee Literature Prize of the City of Überlingen , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 123rd year 2005, pp. 139–207 ( digitized version )
Web links
- Official website of the city of Überlingen with information on the price (submenu "Culture & Art")
Individual evidence
- ↑ buchmarkt.de of July 31, 2014
- ↑ suedkurier.de: The lake was her teacher: Bodensee Literature Prize goes to Eva Gesine Baur
- ↑ Monika Helfer is awarded the Bodensee Literature Prize. August 27, 2020, accessed on August 29, 2020 .