German language award
The German Language Prize is awarded annually by the Henning Kaufmann Foundation to maintain the purity of the German language . The award recognizes “careful use of language and good and understandable German”. The prize is endowed with 5,000 euros (up to 2001 with 15,000 DM, up to 2003 with 7,500 euros; the foundation is currently no longer publishing information on the endowment). It was mostly awarded to people from the fields of literature and literary studies , linguistics and the art of speaking / recitation , but occasionally also to institutions such as the Goethe Institute .
The Henning Kaufmann Foundation to maintain the purity of the German language was established in 1983 as the estate of the grammar school teacher and name researcher Henning Kaufmann (1897–1980) under the umbrella of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft in Essen . She has awarded the German Language Prize since 1984, until 1990 in Wolfenbüttel . Weimar has been the location of the award ceremony since 1991 .
The designation of the price is a common hypallation .
Award winners
- 1984: Hans-Martin Gauger
- 1985: Martin Wagenschein
- 1986: the job for the revision of the Grimm dictionary at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (Berlin) and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
- 1987: Will Quadflieg
- 1988: Hans Wollschläger
- 1989: a group of Romanian-German writers: Herta Müller , Gerhardt Csejka , Helmuth Frauendorfer , Klaus Hensel , Johann Lippet , Werner Söllner , William Totok , Richard Wagner
- 1990: Uwe Pörksen
- 1991: Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt
- 1992: not awarded
- 1993: not awarded
- 1994: the Goethe-Institut for the maintenance of the German language abroad and for the promotion of international cultural cooperation, Munich
- 1995: Hans Hattenhauer
- 1996: Peter Eisenberg
- 1997: Wulf Kirsten
- 1998: Dorothea Kuhn
- 1999: Walter Krämer
- 2000: Peter von Polenz
- 2001: Theodor Ickler
- 2002: Karl Heinz Bohrer
- 2003: the spotlight in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
- 2004: Peter von Matt
- 2005: Heike Schmoll
- 2006: Dieter Henrich
- 2007: Charles Linsmayer , the co-founder of the Literaturhaus Basel (for his "diverse commitment to the German language in Switzerland")
- 2008: Blanche Kommerell , because, as a professor at the University of Witten / Herdecke, she enables her students to “discover the beauty of literary texts, to speak and represent it themselves”.
- 2009: Konrad Adam
- 2010: Norbert Miller
- 2011: Gustav Seibt
- 2012: Rüdiger Görner
- 2013: Oskar Reichmann
- 2014: Konrad Ehlich
- 2015: Katharina Raabe
- 2016: Gerhard Stadelmaier
- 2017: Rosemarie Tietze
- 2018: Josef Kraus
- 2019: Kirstin Casemir
literature
- Henning Kaufmann Foundation (ed.): German Language Prize 1995–1999. Yearbook. Edition Argus, Verlag Ulrich Schmitt, Schliengen 2001, ISBN 3-931264-13-0 .