Dietrich Eckart Prize

The Dietrich-Eckart Prize was a literary prize ^a , to the city of Hamburg , initially her Senate , awarded from 1933 to 1943. It was originally intended to replace the Lessing Prize . Instead, the endowment of the Lessing Prize was reduced from RM 15,000 to RM 5,000 and the Dietrich Eckart Prize was linked to the same amount, which could also be awarded to two winners in equal parts.

The award was named after the journalist and publisher Dietrich Eckart , who, as an anti-Semitic ideologist and early supporter of National Socialism, was Adolf Hitler's mentor and source of ideas .

Difference to the Lessing price

“The Lessing Prize remains… a prize that can only be assessed from an artistic point of view, while the Dietrich Eckart Prize is primarily intended for literary and propagandistic achievements in line with the idea of National Socialism. Of course, it should only be awarded if there is a really artistic achievement. But this must always be connected with National Socialist sentiments. "

Award winners

1933: Sigmund Graff , writer and playwright; Carl Ernst Hintze , author of the play Die Endlose Straße with Graff

1934: Alfred Karrasch , writer and editor; Heinrich Anacker , Swiss-German writer

1935: Edwin Erich Dwinger , writer; Thomas Westerich , national author and cultural politician

1936: Walter Groß , doctor, author and National Socialist politician

1937: Hermann Okraß , journalist and newspaper editor; Andreas Heusler , Swiss German and Scandinavian scholar

1938–1940: not awarded

1941: Adolf Bartels , writer, journalist, literary historian and cultural politician; Hans Baumann , poet, composer, elementary school teacher and National Socialist functionary

1942: not awarded

1943: Friedrich Wilhelm Hymmen , writer and editor; Bruno Karberg , graphic artist and painter

Remarks

^a Why the graphic artist Bruno Karberg also received it is unclear.

Individual evidence

↑ Hanna Leitgeb: The excellent author. Municipal literary prizes and cultural policy in Germany, 1926–1971 , Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1994, (Reprint 2017), ISBN 978-3-11-088312-1 , page 189

Web links

List of award winners at staatsarchiv.hamburg.de (sometimes different spelling of the names)
Hanna Leitgeb: The excellent author. Municipal literary prizes and cultural policy in Germany, 1926–1971 , Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1994, (Reprint 2017), ISBN 978-3-11-088312-1 , at Google Books

[1] Hanna Leitgeb: The excellent author. Municipal literary prizes and cultural policy in Germany, 1926–1971 , Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1994, (Reprint 2017), ISBN 978-3-11-088312-1 , page 189