Frankfurt radio play advancement award
The Frankfurter Hörspiel-Förderpreis is a radio play award that is sponsored by the Frankfurter Künstlerhilfe e. V. was awarded.
The prize was founded in 1981 as the Frankfurt Radio Play Prize and was endowed with DM 20,000 at the time. In 1999 the prize was converted into the Frankfurt Radio Play Promotion Prize , endowed with DM 15,000. According to the statute, it was awarded to a "radio artist (author, composer, director) who has proven with his first or second radio play that he can give the genre radio play original and promising impulses".
A three-person jury decided on the award. The aim of the award, which is under the patronage of the cultural department of Frankfurt am Main and the director of the Hessischer Rundfunk , was to “help the radio play genre to achieve more journalistic resonance. Young and innovative artists are to be encouraged to further develop the culture of listening in a future-oriented manner. "
The funding has since been discontinued.
Award winners
Frankfurt radio play award
- 1985 George Tabori for his complete works
- 1987 Alfred Behrens for his complete works
- 1989 Ernst Jandl for his complete works
- 1992 Ror Wolf for his complete works
- 1992 Andreas Ammer Young Talent Award for Orbis Auditus
Frankfurt radio play advancement award
- 1999 Kai Buchholz for It's a wonderful sun here and a bad person. Ludwig Wittgenstein in Norway