Caroline Schlegel Prize
The Caroline Schlegel Prize of the City of Jena was first announced as a literary competition prize in 2000. The external reason was the reopening of the Romantikerhaus in Jena as a literature museum in the same year. It has been advertised every three years for German-speaking countries since 2002 as the main and / or promotional prize for essay writing and feature pages. The main prize is endowed with 5,000 euros, the sponsorship award with 2,500 euros, which are provided by private individuals.
Naming
The award commemorates the Jena author and translator Caroline Schlegel (1763–1809), around whom the circle of writers and publicists known as the “ Jena Romanticism ” was grouped at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries . Caroline was a contemporary witness of the Mainz Republic and played an important cultural, political and social role in Jena. “Your letters paint a sharply contoured, lively picture of a life plan that represents the attempt by a literary youth movement to break out of the fetters of a bourgeois existence. These certificates are among the best that the German letter literature has to offer. "(Wording of the preamble)
Criteria and jury
Based on the work of the namesake, outstanding achievements in the field of essays are to be recognized, which are characterized by a high linguistic and stylistic level. In 2008, the independent jury included the writers Gisela Kraft and Gert Neumann and the literary scholar Klaus Manger , in 2011 as well as 2014 and 2017 the journalist and author Dorothee Schmitz-Köster , the Berlin Germanist and award winner 2005 Sonja Hilzinger and the Jena literary scholar Stefan Matuschek .
Award winners
- 2017 Main Prize: Christoph Dieckmann for his essay Mein Abendland. The Eastern Connection ; Sponsorship award: Ronya Othmann for her essay A flower, green, red and yellow
- 2014 Main Prize: Andreas Dorschel for his essay A Corinthians' letter to Paul that was believed lost ; Sponsorship award: Nancy Hünger
- 2011 Main Prize: Ina Hartwig for her essay The absolute freedom of the senses ; Sponsorship awards: Christina Müller-Gutowski and Nadja Mayer
- 2008 Main Prize: Thomas Hürlimann for his essay Over the stairs from his book The jump in the wastebasket ; Sponsorship award: Dietmar Ebert
- 2005 Main Prize: Sonja Hilzinger
- 2002 Main Prize: Burkhard Spinnen for his essay Scandal ; Sponsorship award: Kai Agthe
- 2000 Essay Award: Juli Zeh ; Journalism / Feuilleton sponsorship award: Steffen Kopetzky
Remarks
- ↑ Announcement of the Caroline Schlegel Prize ( Memento of the original dated August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
