Ehm-Welk Literature Prize
The Ehm Welk Literature Prize was founded in 1992 by the district administrator of the Uckermark district and has been awarded every two years since then. With prize money of € 2,000, it is one of the most highly endowed literary prizes in the state of Brandenburg .
The award serves to promote literature in the Uckermark district. Authors across Germany have been able to submit poetry and prose since 2018, provided the work reflects the concept of home in the sense of the writer Ehm Welk . Ehm Welk, who spent his childhood in Biesenbrow in the Uckermark region , became known for the " Kummerow " novels in which he expressed his humanistic worldview.
The five-person jury is traditionally made on behalf of the district administrator by the Uckermärkische Literaturgesellschaft eV , which is based in the Ehm Welk and Heimatmuseum in Angermünde .
Award winners
- 1992: Ingrid Protze (Ferch), poems and Walter Flegel (Potsdam), The Sheep Girl
- 1994: Matthias Körner (Auras), Country Life
- 1996: Henry-Martin Klemt (Frankfurt / Oder), glasses off to prayer
- 1998: Maria Seidemann (Potsdam), hut and star
- 2000: Hans Joachim Nauschütz (Frankfurt / Oder), going away , a special prize for a work in Low German went to Dr. Horst Pohl, Kinnerfest
- 2002: Jenny Reinhardt (Erkner), crocodile man
- 2004: Horst Wolf (Angermünde), The Ocarina
- 2006: Rene Schmidt (Brodowin / Barnim) for the cycle of poems Ahornsommer and Stefan Eikermann (Grimme / Uckermark) for the story of the Brandenburg sand
- 2008: Marion Boginski for a manuscript excerpt from the novel Krieger zu Fuß
- 2010: Rochus Stordeur for the story Abandoned House
- 2012: Ralf-Günther Schein for the collection of poems Annual Rings and with Yvonne Zitzmann for the story Endmoränen
- 2016: Roland Schulz for the story The broken dyke
- 2018: Kena Hüsers (has lived in Angermünde since 2016) for the story Die Christanje