German Narrator Award (1962)
The German narrator price of the star was a literary prize , that of the weekly magazine 1962 Star was awarded for " the great entertaining novel not despise, the prominent in the judgment of seven authors, scholars and critics as entertainment novel would ."
The prize money awarded was 50,000 DM for the first, 20,000 DM for the second and 10,000 DM for the third, as well as seventeen sponsorship prizes of 1,000 DM each. The seven-member jury included Joachim Kaiser , Erich Kästner , Rudolf Walter Leonhardt , Ludwig Marcuse , and Marcel Reich -Ranicki , Karl Ludwig Schneider and Benno von Wiese . 30 editors assisted the jury in reviewing the roughly two thousand submitted manuscripts.
The award ceremony was held in 1963 during the Frankfurt Book Fair in the Hotel Hessischer Hof and was carried out by Gerd Bucerius , who had been a shareholder in Stern since 1949 and was one of the donors of the prize money. The jury had decided not to award a first prize, as none of the entries was so clearly superior in quality that the difference in the amount of the prize money would have been justified. The sum of the prize money was not reduced, but increased to DM 100,000, and three second prizes, two third prizes and twenty sponsorship prizes were awarded.
The award and sponsorship award winners included Werner Beumelburg , Daniel Christoff , Franz Karl Franchy , Gisela Frankenberg , Josef Ilmberger , Juliane Kay , Sybil Countess Schönfeldt and Ursula Sigismund .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stern, October 21, 1962, quoted from Stefan Busch: "And yesterday, Germany heard us": Nazi authors in the Federal Republic , Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1998 (= studies on literary and cultural history, 13; ISBN 3 -8260-1395-6 ), p. 141
- ^ German narrator award , in: DIE ZEIT, October 18, 1963, No. 42, p. 15