Christoph Martin Wieland Translator Award
Burkhart Kroeber with Susanne Höbel (left) and Sibylle Cramer
The Christoph-Martin-Wieland Translator Prize is a German literary prize that is awarded every two years (in September) in the Wieland town of Biberach an der Riss for outstanding translations.
It ties in with Christoph Martin Wieland , who was the first to translate Shakespeare's dramas . It is financed by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Science, Research and the Arts and announced by the Friends of the Association for the Promotion of Literary and Scientific Translations .
The award is endowed with 12,000 euros.
Award winners
- 1979: Fritz Vogelgsang
- 1981: Heinz Riedt
- 1983: Klaus Reichert
- 1985: Karl Dedecius
- 1987: Gerd Henniger
- 1989: Renate Orth-Guttmann
- 1991: Holger Fliessbach
- 1993: Birgitta Kicherer
- 1995: Berthold Zilly
- 1997: Christa Schuenke
- 1999: Maja Pflug
- 2001: Frank Günther
- 2003: Anke Caroline Burger
- 2005: Petra Willim
- 2007: Dorothea Trottenberg
- 2009: Gisela Kraft
- 2011: Burkhart Kroeber
- 2013: Eike Schönfeld
- 2015: Ulrich Pröfrock
- 2017: Andreas Jandl, Frank Sievers
- 2019: Eva Schweikart