Dieter Wellershoff grant
The Dieter Wellershoff Scholarship is an 8-month working scholarship for writers, awarded annually by the City of Cologne and the Literaturhaus Köln, to two scholarship holders, each endowed with 12,000 euros . The award commemorates the work of the Cologne writer Dieter Wellershoff, who died in 2018, and is intended to support authors with their main residence in Cologne in completing a literary work that has already started.
The scholarships were awarded for the first time in 2018. The jury consisted of Sonja Herrmann, Martin Mittelmeier and Martin Oehlen. Previous scholarship holders were:
- 2020 Adrian Kasnitz and Tilman Strasser
- 2019 Ulrike Anna Bleier and Bastian Schneider
- 2018 Tina Ilse Maria Gintrowski and Joachim Geil
Web links
- Dieter Wellershoff Scholarships , website of the City of Cologne
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dieter Wellershoff Scholarship , report on Fixpoetry.com from April 14, 2019, accessed on May 8, 2019.