Freudenthal Society

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The Freudenthal Society is dedicated as a German-language literary society of the care and dissemination of Lower Saxony variety of Low German in general and the work of Freudenthal brothers Friedrich and August in particular.

It was founded on April 24, 1948 in Rotenburg (Wümme), initially as the Friedrich Freudenthal Society . Since around 1975 the society has consciously and clearly gone beyond the framework of a mere poetry and local history society and also sees itself as a supporting element of a contemporary Low German movement, which is particularly due to the regular awarding of the "Freudenthal Prize" to Low German Contemporary writer becomes visible. In 1988 the company's headquarters were relocated from Rotenburg to Soltau on the advice of Soltau's then city director Jürgen Fenner . The Freudenthal Room , in which Friedrich Freudenthal was mayor from 1884 to 1887, is located in the old town hall .

Heinrich Kröger has been chairman of the Freudenthal Society since 1979 .

Laureate of the Freudenthal Prize

The prize, named after the Freudenthal brothers, has been awarded annually since 1957 (previous exceptions: 1971, 2014) for award-winning, unpublished Low German poems, short stories, radio plays or self-contained game scenes. Mainly from Northern Germany (Lower Saxony has over 30 award winners), but the previous award winners also came from the USA, the Netherlands and England. Several winners have been honored in a few years since 1970. And some have received the award several times: Wilhelm Martens (1967, 1974), Jürgen Kropp (1985, 1993, 2003, 2013), Diedrich Heinrich Schmidt (1990, 2005), Silke Mansholt (1997, 2004), Gerd Constapel (2003, 2009) and Aloys Terbille (1994, posthumously 2010).

Winner of the Freudenthal Prize since 1957

Sponsorship award

Since 2008 the Freudenthal Prize has been supplemented by the Freudenthal Promotion Prize (Freudenthal recognition). Previous winners:

Special appreciation

literature

  • Heinrich Kröger (ed.): "Ick löw, ick am en piece of di ..." A Low German reading book. Freudenthal Prize Winners 1976-2001. Hinstorff-Verlag, Rostock 2002, ISBN 3-356-00971-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Freudenthal Award 2018. In: freudenthal-gesellschaft.de. Accessed January 21, 2020.
  2. ↑ Freudenthal Award 2017. In: freudenthal-gesellschaft.de. Accessed January 21, 2020.