Droste price

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The Droste Prize is the oldest German-language literary prize , which - with the exception of the years between 1967 and 1979, when the cycle was four years - is awarded every three years exclusively to German-speaking authors. It was first awarded in 1957. Since 1962 it has been awarded by the city of Meersburg in memory of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff during the Meersburger Droste-Literaturtage .
The main prize for a complete literary work is endowed with 6,000 euros.

The sponsorship award , which has also been awarded since 2003, for younger female authors “who have only just started to publish literary works” (according to the statutes) is endowed with 4,000 euros.

history

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's death in 1948, literature days were held in Meersburg, which focused on the poet with lectures and readings. Due to the success, the city of Meersburg decided to continue this and make poets the focus of the event in the future.

Helene Freifrau von Bothmer , the owner of the Meersburg Princely House of Droste at the time, donated the Droste Prize in 1956. In 1962 he took over, supported by the Bodensee-Klub e. V. Überlingen the city, which together with the Annette von Droste-Gesellschaft e. V. established the statutes for this in Münster.

In direct relation to Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, the city has since wanted to honor and promote women writers who "tend to be on the fringes of the literary business [...] who refuse the literary fashions of their time".

There is another literary prize named after the poet, the Annette von Droste Hülshoff Prize , also known as the Westphalian Literature Prize , which is independent of the Meersburger Droste Prize .

See also : Heinrich Droste Literature Prize

Prize winners

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