Friedrich Gerstäcker Prize
The Friedrich Gerstäcker Prize for Youth Literature has been awarded every two years by the city of Braunschweig since 1947 .
The prize was named after the German travel writer Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816–1872) and was initially endowed with 3,000 D-Marks (today € 8,000 ). In addition, the winner receives a sculpture.
The award honors a work by a living writer, written in German, “which imaginatively shows young adults the adventure of encountering strange worlds in a linguistically sophisticated form and at the same time the thoughts of tolerance and cosmopolitanism in dealing with other traditions , religions and races and brings values closer ”(preamble).
Awards ceremonies
| year | Author | Title of the work |
| 1952 | Kurt Lütgen | The great captain |
| 1954 | Fritz Mühlenweg | On a secret mission through the Gobi desert |
| 1956 | Hans Baumann | The caves of the great hunters |
| 1958 | Erich Wustmann | Taowaki |
| 1960 | Herbert Kaufmann | The king's crocodile |
| 1962 | Karl Rolf Seufert | The caravan of white men |
| 1964 | Herbert Plate | Who came from the jungle |
| 1966 | Karl Friedrich Kohlenberg | Ben Ali and his flock |
| 1968 | Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich | The sons of the Great Bear |
| 1970 | Christopher S. Hagen | Secret mission |
| 1972 | Kurt Lütgen | Complete works |
| 1974 | Thomas Jeier | The great Alaskan gold rush |
| 1976 | Frederik Hetmann | The red day |
| 1978 | Barbara Bartos-Höppner | Silvermoon |
| 1980 | Werner J. Egli | Howl at the moon |
| 1982 | Klaus cordon | Monsoon or the white tiger |
| 1984 | Sigrid Heuck | Moon hunters |
| 1986 | Günter Sachse | The poor people's raft |
| 1988 | Rainer Maria Schröder | Abby Lynn - Banished to the End of the World |
| 1990 | Kurt waterfall | Ben Makhis or The Journey to the West |
| 1992 | Ghazi Abdel-Qadir | Abdallah and me |
| 1994 | Nina Rauprich | Carl Kroll's adventurous escape |
| 1996 | Arnulf Zitelmann | On the way to Bigorra |
| 1998 | Günther Bentele | Wolf years |
| 2001 | Henning Pawel |
Forbidden summer (The price was not awarded in connection with unresolved Stasi allegations against Pawel.) |
| 2003 | Wolfram Hänel u. Ulrike Gerold | Somewhere else |
| 2005 | Christa-Maria Zimmermann | A hundred days to Lhasa |
| 2007 | Iva Procházková | We'll meet when everyone is gone |
| 2009 | Anja Tuckermann | Mano. The boy who didn't know where he was |
| 2012 | Martin Grzimek | Tristan. Novel about loyalty, love and betrayal |
| 2014 | Anna Kuschnarowa | Kinshasa Dreams |
| 2016 | Dirk Reinhardt | Train kids |
| 2018 | Julya Rabinowich | In between: me |
| 2020 | Susan Kreller | Electric fish |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fischer World Almanac. Frankfurt am Main 1961, p. 302.
- ↑ Friedrich Gerstäcker Prize: Julya Rabinowich awarded for "In between: Me" . boersenblatt.net, April 17, 2018, accessed April 18, 2018.
- ↑ Susan Kreller receives the Youth Literature Prize . deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on June 2, 2020.