Most beautiful book in Austria
The award Most Beautiful Book of Austria is awarded annually by the Association of Austrian Book Trade in cooperation with the Federal Chancellery in the categories of General Literature , art books and photo books , children's books , non-fiction and academic books , textbooks and special productions awarded. A total of around 15 works (2006) will be awarded. In addition, a state prize worth 3,000 euros is awarded to individual books.
The competition is part of the international competition, Most Beautiful Books from All Over the World , organized by the Leipzig Book Art Foundation . Every year the foundation awards the Golden Letter as the highest award to the book, "which is not only flawless in terms of typography, cover, design and bookbinding, but above all innovative".
Award winners
- 2017 - State Prize Winner:
- 8630 Mariazell by Erwin Polanc
- Franz West - Artist Club (catalog for the exhibition of the same name)
- An Evening by RH Quaytman (art book)
- 2016 - State Prize Winner:
- Essays! - Essays on poetics, literature and art
- Schwarz Austria - The children of Afro-American occupation soldiers
- The Toolbox is You
- 2007
- I. General literature
- Hugo Ender , Joseph Kopf : Lineaments
- Cecilia Brandstetter : Montalcino diary
- Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando : Scoglio Pomo or Rout on the Flying Dutchman
- Harald Gruendl , EOOS: The Death of Fashion
- Margherita Spiluttini : Margherita Spiluttini
- Reinhart Mlineritsch : Cover of darkness
- Vienna Museum, Ulrike Spring, Wolfgang Kos , Wolfgang Freitag (eds.): In the tavern
- Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek : There has to be order
- Wojciech Czaja : periscope architecture
- Otto Kapfinger , Ulrich Wieler (Eds.): RIESS WOOD 3.
- II. Art books and photo books
- Gottfried Semper . The Ideal Museum by Peter Noever, Harry Francis Mallgrave, Andrew Benjamin
- III. Books for children and young readers
- Heinz Janisch : When I can't sleep at night
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Erlkönig
- IV. Non-fiction and scientific books
- Continuously by Walter Bohatsch, Mark Gilbert
- V. School books
- VI. Special productions
- 10 Ideas that will change the world or not edited by Alexander Doepel
- I. General literature
- 2006
- I. General literature:
- Bodensee-Etudes by Rüdiger Görner
- II. Art books and photo books
- Eggenberg Palace by Barbara Kaiser, Ulrich Becker; Publisher: Christian Brandstätter Verlag; Design: Kadadesign: Alexander Kada , Hermine Trummer
- Sweet Home Vienna by Peter Pongratz
- III. Books for children and young readers
- Wolfgang Amadé Mozart by Sigrid Laube
- Do you have to sieze pussies? by Gerda Anger-Schmidt , Renate Habinger
- Bear pun book by László Varvasovszky
- IV. Non-fiction and scientific books
- walter loos by Sonja Pisarik, Friedrich Achleitner , Oliver Kühschelm; Publisher: Holzhausen Verlag GmbH; Design: Gabriele Lenz
- Wood spectrum from Josef Fellner, Alfred Teischinger, Walter Zschokke ; Publisher: proHolz Austria; Design: Reinhard Gassner, Marcel Bachmann, Stefan Gassner
- Fine arts in Vorarlberg 1945–2005 by Susanne Fink
- I. General literature:
- 2005
- I. General literature:
- Things. Places. Years.
- II. Art volumes and photo books:
- vienna housing 1995-2005
- Unleashed by Jakob Hoflehner
- evn collection 95-05
- Arnold Schoenberg . Catalog raisonné
- A day of honey, a day of onions by Dagmar Frühwald and Hanna Schimek
- Alois Galehr / Bananorama
- III. Books for children and young readers:
- No fear! by Anka Luger and Dorothea Löcker
- Tyrolean legends by Jakob Kirchmayr and Michael Karner
- IV. Non-fiction and scientific books:
- 250 years Schwarzenberg to the court 1755–2005 from Alois Niederstätter
- Strategies of the craft. Seven portraits of extraordinary projects in Europe
- Name of a landscape by Petra Walser
- VI. Special productions:
- Architecture of the Gothic - Gothic Architecture by Johann Josef Böker
- I. General literature:
- 2004
- I. General literature:
- prae: position by Till Mairhofer
- II. Art volumes and photo books:
- Walking over the hill of St. Margarethen from stone to stone by Katharina Prantl , Zita Bereuter , Walter Bohatsch
- Murau . Documentation on the new building of the district administration by Christa Kamleithner , Walter M. Chramosta
- 365 damascuswien by Angelika Mathis
- Otto Muehl . Life art work by Peter Noever
- III. Books for children and young readers:
- Fast, Rudi, fast by Adelheid Dahimène , illustrated by Heide Stöllinger
- Sinclair Sofokles the baby dinosaur by Friederike Mayröcker , illustrated by Angelika Kaufmann
- The Speibbanane of Dirk Stermann , illustrated by Rudi Klein
- Mrs. Bund and dog from Helga Bansch
- Spider Spinner by Adelheid Dahimène , illustrated by Heide Stöllinger
- IV. Non-fiction and scientific books:
- Freud's missing neighbors of Lydia Marinelli
- One and one is eleven by Hans-Joachim Gögl
- Forgotten envoy. Monument to John XXIII by Willibald Feinig
- Go the way today. 150 years of the Cistercians in Mehrerau by Abbot Kassian Lauterer
- old news
- VI. Special productions:
- The Vienna Ringstrasse by Walter Öhlinger , Eva-Maria Orosz
- People by Dietmar Tadler
- I. General literature:
- 2003
- I. General literature:
- Viva la poesia
- Desire for performance
- II. Art volumes and photo books:
- Frozen History by Josef Hoflehner
- Martin Arnold * Deanimated
- III. Books for children and young readers:
- I'm a great pike from Linda Wolfsgruber
- The fable book by Silke Leffler
- IV. Non-fiction and scientific books:
- The culinary heritage of Austria
- Architect Luigi Blau - houses, interiors, street furniture
- V. School books: Advancement in ... Mathematics 2
- VI. Special productions:
- Water - form from movement
- I live / die
- I. General literature:
- 2002
- I. General literature: Building in Tyrol since 1980 - A guide to the 260 buildings by Otto Kapfinger that are well worth seeing
- II. Art books and photo books: rammed earth / Lehm und Architektur / Terra Cruda / Martin Rauch by Otto Kapfinger
- III. Books for children and young readers
- Donkey by Adelheid Dahimène
- From the wild women of Martin Auer
- IV. Special productions: not a prize, but an honorable mention: Geo-Windows, Volume 1 by Johann Brückl / Peter Schürz / Heinrich Wendt
- V. Innovation Prize: La Mirada Muda N ° 2 / Der Stumme Blick / The Mute Eye by Ignacio Martinez
- 2001
- I. General literature:
- II. Art volumes and photo books:
- III. Books for children and young readers
- IV. Special category:
- V. Innovation Prize:
- 2000
- Dictionary of idioms for Karl Kraus ' magazine Die Fackel by Werner Welzig
- 1999
- World of iron - weapons and armor from the armory in Graz by Alexander Kada
- 1998
- Konrad Vogel - New Animal Life , by Friedrich C. Heller and Walter Schmögner
- 1993
- Master stories by HC Andersen by Renate Habinger
- 1989
- Musical fish soup with travel impressions - A documentation about the Dadaists in Tyrol in 1921/22 by Raoul Schrott
- undated: Gerhard Trumler
See also
Web links
- www.schoenstebuecher.at
- State Prize for Most Beautiful Books in Austria on the website of the Austrian Federal Chancellery
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Buchperlen der Alpen Republik , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on June 27, 2018.
- ↑ derStandard.at "Best Book of Austria": Everything is better ... . Article dated March 19, 2017, accessed March 19, 2017.