Ernst Toller Prize
The Ernst Toller Prize is a literature prize created in 1993 by the Ernst Toller Society , the Lions Club and the city of Neuburg an der Donau for special literary achievements in the border area between literature and politics. The prize is awarded every two years and is endowed with 5000 euros.
It reminds of Ernst Toller , who was a well-known German-language playwright in the 1920s.
Neuburg an der Donau took on Ernst Tollers because it was here that he created his most important works during his imprisonment, but above all in the nearby Niederschönenfeld . In addition, since his birthplace is in what is now Poland, it was not expected that his legacy would receive any resonance there.
Award winners
- 2018 Wolf Biermann
- 2016 Roman Ehrlich
- 2015 Katja Petrovskaya
- 2013 Christoph Ransmayr
- 2011 not awarded
- 2009 Gerhard Polt
- 2007 Günter Grass
- 2003 July toe
- 2001 Felix Mitterer
- 1999 Biljana Srbljanović
- 1997 Albert Ostermaier