Calwer Hermann Hesse Foundation
The Calw Hermann Hesse Foundation was founded in 1989 in memory of the Calw- born Nobel Prize laureate Hermann Hesse .
Benefactor
The sponsors are Südwestrundfunk and Sparkasse Pforzheim Calw . This non-profit foundation for “maintaining literary culture in service and promoting international understanding in the spirit and work of Hermann Hesse.” Is partially supported by the state of Baden-Württemberg . The main purposes of the foundation are the awarding of the Calw Hermann Hesse Prize and the awarding of literary grants .
Foundation bodies
The foundation has two foundation bodies , the board of directors and the board of trustees .
Board
The main task of the Board of Directors is to appoint the award jury for the prizes and grants. The members of the board of directors are sent
- from Südwestrundfunk (chairman 2008: Andreas Narr, SWR-Studio Tübingen)
- from Sparkasse Pforzheim Calw (deputy chairman: Stephan Scholl)
- from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg
- from the city of Calw by its mayor
Board of Trustees
The board of trustees elects and monitors the board of directors, suggests the members of the jury and makes suggestions for award winners and scholarship holders. The committee includes:
- as chairperson: Julia Duchess of Württemberg
- the Minister for Science, Research and Art of the State of Baden-Württemberg
- the respective rector of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (2008 as deputy chairman Bernd Engler)
- the President of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt
- the representative of the municipality of Montagnola
- the representative of the Swiss Hermann Hesse Foundation in Bern
- the managing director of the Hermann Hesse Colloquium in Calw (2008 as deputy chairman: Helmut Nagel)
- the chair of the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , via EÜK in Straelen