Christine Lavant Prize

Memory of Christine Lavant (1915–1973)

The Christine Lavant Prize has been awarded by the International Christine Lavant Society since 2016 and recognizes "writers who, like Christine Lavant , combine high aesthetic standards with a humane attitude and a socially critical view in their literary work ". The prize is endowed with 15,000 euros.

Objective, endowment

On the one hand, the prize aims to promote the dissemination and knowledge of Christine Lavant's literary work and, on the other, to honor writers with a humane attitude. The prize is awarded for poetry and prose in German to authors who “have already been perceived by the public as important literary voices”.

The prize money was raised exclusively by private sponsors such as the Hans Schmid Private Foundation or Allianz Elementar Versicherung, and by the International Christine Lavant Society.

The award ceremony takes place as part of a festive matinee. In 2017 the event took place in Vienna's RadioKulturhaus , with a reading of Lavant texts by Gerti Drassl , with musical accompaniment, a laudation by Klaus Amann and a performance by the award winner.

Award winners

• 2016: Kathrin Schmidt
• 2017: Bodo Hell
• 2018: Klaus Merz
• 2019: Angela Krauss

jury

In 2017, the advisory board of the International Christine Lavant Society , which determines the awardee, included:

• Klaus Amann , founder and long-time director of the Musil Institute at the University of Klagenfurt and Lavant editor
• Friederike Mayröcker , writer
• Kathrin Schmidt , writer from Gotha, first prize winner
• Thomas Strässle , professor at the Bern University of the Arts and member of the Swiss Television Literature Club
• Daniela Strigl , literary scholar and literary critic
• Karl Wagner , most recently professor of German at the University of Zurich

Web links

• Christine Lavant Prize on the Christine Lavant website

Individual proof

1. ^ Judith Hoffmann: Christine Lavant Prize to Bodo Hell , Morgenjournal , Ö1 , November 13, 2017
2. ↑ Awarded on October 6th: Christine Lavant Prize goes to Angela Krauss. In: Small newspaper . September 24, 2019, accessed September 24, 2019 .