German Fantasy Prize
The German Fantasy Prize is a literary prize that has been awarded by the First German Fantasy Club e. V. is awarded to authors, publishers and translators in the field of fantasy literature in order to honor the merits of personalities in fantasy literature in German-speaking countries . From 1992 to 2008, the prize was endowed every fourth year by the city of Passau when it was awarded during the Congress of Imagination .
Award winners
| year | Award winners | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Heinz Pollischansky | for the promotion of fantasy literature in the German-speaking area as editor of Prinz Eisenherz . |
| 1980 | Ernst Vlcek | for the promotion of fantasy literature in the German-speaking area through his creative commitment to fantasy as the designer of the Mythor series by Pabel-Verlag . |
| 1981 | Michael Görden | for the promotion of fantasy literature in the German-speaking area through his outstanding commitment as editor of Bastei-Verlag . |
| 1982 | Helmut W. Pesch | for his fundamental work "Fantasy - Theory and History of a Literary Genre". |
| 1983 | Peter Wilfert | for his dedicated promotion of German-language fantasy literature as editor of the Goldmann Fantasy series. |
| 1984 | Wolfgang Jeschke | for the promotion of fantasy literature in the German-speaking area and his efforts to produce true-to-original and unabridged translations in the paperback area |
| 1985 | Hubert Strassl | for his services to fantastic literature by establishing the German fantasy fan community and by his work as an author and editor. |
| 1986 | Waldemar Kumming | for his contribution to the fantastic by publishing the news magazine Munic Round Up since the 1950s. |
| 1987 | Michael Ende | for his novels and stories, with which he has given German fantastic literature international attention. |
| 1988 | Frederik Hetmann | for his outstanding work as a translator, editor and writer in the field of fantastic literature. |
| 1989 | Corian publishing house | Corian Verlag and the editors Joachim Körber , Norbert Stresau and Heinrich Wimmer for their services to fantastic literature in the German-speaking area through the conception and persistent realization of the loose-leaf works on fantastic literature and fantastic film. |
| 1990 | Thomas Le Blanc | for his services to fantastic literature in the German-speaking area as the founder and supervisor of the Days of Fantasticism in Wetzlar and the fantastic library in Wetzlar . |
| 1991 | Hermann Urbanek | for his services to science fiction and fantasy in the German-speaking area through his extensive biographical and bibliographical work. |
| 1992 | Otfried Preussler | for his literary oeuvre, with which he opened the world of sagas and legends and the magical realm of the imagination to many young readers |
| 1993 | Franz Rottensteiner | for his contribution to Fantastic Literature by publishing the critical literary magazine Quarber Merkur since the sixties. |
| 1994 | Winfried Petri | for his contribution to science fiction and fantasy by letting the fan community share in his extensive and profound knowledge over many decades. |
| 1995 | Walter Ernsting | for his services to science fiction and fantasy in the German-speaking area through his pioneering work as a publisher and editor in the 1950s and 1960s, through the establishment of the German fan community and through his work as an author. |
| 1996 | Carl Amery | for his literary oeuvre, in which he encourages his readers to preserve nature and humanity through a critical and fantastic game with history and the future. |
| 1997 | Gisbert Kranz | for his contribution to the work of the four Inklings authors J.RR Tolkien , CS Lewis , Charles Williams and Gilbert K. Chesterton . |
| 1998 | Erika Fuchs | for her brilliant translation of the works of Carl Barks , with which she has delighted generations of children and adults. |
| 1999 | Hansrudi Washer | for his comic creations , with which he brought light to the hearts of children in the dreary post-war period. |
| 2000 | Herbert Rosendorfer | for his fantastic stories in which he holds up a mirror to society in a grotesquely surreal way. |
| 2001 | Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller | for the dissemination of fantastic literature in two different social systems and its future prospects. |
| 2002 | Jörg Weigand | for his pioneering exploration of pseudonyms and the culture of loan books as well as for his countless articles in which he shed light on fantastic literature in all its facets. |
| 2003 | Gerhard Braunsperger and Christian Bildner | for the founding of the eBook publishing house readersplanet , with which they opened up a future-oriented medium for fantastic literature and thus made titles that were long out of print accessible again to today's public. |
| 2004 | Rainer Erler | for pointing out new ways in both fantastic literature and fantastic film. |
| 2005 | Jörg Martin Munsonius , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn , Hermann Urbanek and Hans Joachim Alpers | for the publication of the dictionary of fantasy literature |
| 2006 | Jörg Kaegelmann | for his many years of work as a publisher of fantastic literature of all varieties at Blitz-Verlag. |
| 2007 | Frank Rainer check | for the publication of fantastic literature with the publishers DuMont and Blitz, where he introduced the readers to many interesting rediscoveries. |
| 2008 | Herbert W. Franke | for over half a century of literary work, in which he took the term science fiction at its word and, unique in German SF literature, bridged the gap between art and science, in particular already exploring virtual spaces when they were not yet zeitgeist were. |
| 2009 | Friedel True | for the promotion of sophisticated fantasy and new talents as long-time editor of the fantasy series of the publishers Heyne and Piper. |
| 2010 | Viktor Farkas | for his versatile non-fiction books on fantastic phenomena and his longstanding activity in the Austrian science fiction fandom. |
| 2011 | Antonia Michaelis | for her fantastic novels, with which she grants unusual insights into strange worldviews in accordance with her Sousrealism manifesto. |
| 2012 | Iny Klocke and Elmar Wohlrath | for their colorful historical and fantastic novels with which they inspire countless readers. |
| 2013 | Eduard Lukschandl | for his pioneering work in popularizing the strategic fantasy game in Germany. |
| 2014 | Helmuth W. Mommers | for his services as the founder of the Villa Fantastica library . |
| 2015 | Dieter Steinseifer | for his pioneering work in popularizing fantasy role-playing games in Germany. |
| 2016 | Thomas RP Mielke and Astrid Ann Jabusch | for her prose adaptation of the fantastic medieval verse epic Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. |
| 2017 | Uschi Zietsch | Publishing activity for thirty years in the field of attractively designed, upscale German-language fantasy. |
| 2018 | Heinz Zwack | for sixty years translation work in the field of science fiction and related fields. |
| 2019 | Alfred Vejchar | for intergalactic activities as a hyperfan. |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ GERMAN FANTASY PRIZE. First German Fantasy Club , accessed on November 19, 2019 .
- ↑ News in brief: German Fantasy Prize & more. In: Fantastic News. June 20, 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2017 .