Friedland Prize for those returning home

The Friedland Prize of Homecomers is an art and literature prize that has been donated by the Association of Homecomers, Prisoners of War and Members of Missing Persons in Germany and has been awarded annually since 1960.

The prize was designed as a scholarship, the initial prize money was 3,000 D-Mark .

Award winners (selection)

• 1960: Wolfgang Schwarz for The Invisible Bridge
• 1961: Fritz Theilmann (1902–1991) for the sculpture “Those who die defenseless”.
• 1963: Hans Melchior Brugk (1909–1999) for the composition Deutsches Te Deum .
• 1976: Wolfdietrich Kopelke (* 1914)
• 1980: Hans Bahrs (1917-1983); Karl Hochmuth (* 1919)
• 2003: Günther Wagenlehner

Without a year for the award:

• Hansjörg Kühn for the novel Masks and People .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fischer Weltalmanach 1961. Frankfurt am Main 1960, p. 302.
2. ↑ Life ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of Atelier Fritz Theilmann. (Accessed November 21, 2008) 
3. ↑ Bernhard Hemmerle:  Brugk, Hans Melchior. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 23, Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-155-3 , Sp. 178-181.
4. ^ Hansjörg Kühn: Masks and people . Gerhard Hess Verlag, Ulm 1965.