Brandenburg Literature Prize
Brandenburg State Literature Prize and Brandenburg State Literature Prize
The Brandenburg State Literature Prize and Prize for Literature (as well as gifts of honor) were awarded by the State of Brandenburg between 1991 and 2001 and no longer exists in this form. The main prize was endowed with 20,000 Deutschmarks. The funds available to the State of Brandenburg for promoting literature are currently being used to finance residency grants at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf , for which writers and translators can apply. Furthermore, the state of Brandenburg has been awarding the Brandenburg Environmental Literature Prize since 1994 .
Winner of the Brandenburg Literature Prize
- 1991 Fritz Rudolf Fries
- 1992 Helga Schütz
- 1993 Wolfgang Hilbig
- 1994 Adolf Endler
- 1995 Imre Kertész
- 1996 Günter de Bruyn
- 1997 Helga M. Novak
- 1999 Christa Reinig
- 2000 Hanns-Josef Ortheil
Prize Winner Literature Promotion Prize of the State of Brandenburg (selection)
- 1992 Matthias Körner
- 1993 Dagmar Scharsich, Ulrich Zieger
- 1994 Thilo Köhler
- 1995 Karin Wolff
- 1999 Lutz Seiler
Honorary gift from the Brandenburg State Literature Prize
- 1996 Dietrich Ebener (for his life's work)
Brandenburg Literature Prize
The Brandenburg Literature Prize has been awarded annually since 2006 by the Brandenburg Literature College (LKB) and is endowed with 500 euros. More than 100 writers, directors, journalists, translators, librarians, literary scholars and friends of literature belong to the LKB. It was founded in 1990 by Walter Flegel and Manfred Richter , has its seat in Potsdam and is the association for the promotion of literature in the state of Brandenburg with the largest number of members. The LKB stands up for authors in the region, establishes contacts between individual authors and the reading public, with publishers, booksellers, the media, museums and other public institutions.
Laureate of the Brandenburg Literature Prize
- 2006 Elisabeth Richter for mute
- 2007 Josefa Bissels for parting
- 2008 Marco Wilhelm Linke for Der Ventriloquist
- 2009 Tanya Wegberg for With Open Arms
- 2010 Dieter Lenz for poetry on the subject of permanence and change
- 2011 Hanna Haupt (author) for Bruno
- 2012 Uwe Carow for Station UC (cycle of poems)
- 2015 Thomas D. Föller for post-war disabled (short story)
Web links
- Literature College Brandenburg e. V. In: literaturkollegium.de. Retrieved September 5, 2018 .