Friedrich Hölderlin Prize

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Friedrich Hölderlin Prize is the name of two literary prizes that were donated in honor of Friedrich Hölderlin .

Friedrich Holderlin Prize of the City of Bad Homburg

The Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the City of Bad Homburg is a literary prize endowed with 20,000 euros, which has been awarded every year since 1983 on June 6 , the eve of the anniversary of Friedrich Hölderlin's death. It was donated by the city of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe and is given annually on the basis of a donation of DM 100,000 from the Cläre Jannsen Foundation. The award, which was awarded at the same time, is endowed with 7,500 euros. In 2000, co-initiator Marcel Reich-Ranicki received the award. From 2005 to 2012, the jury was chaired by the FAZ features editor and Germanist Jochen Hieber .

Hölderlin lived in Bad Homburg from 1798 to 1800 and from 1804 to 1806.

Award winners

Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize of the university and the university city of Tübingen

Hölderlin Tower on the Neckar in Tübingen
Tübingen, Neckar, detail on the Hölderlin tower IMG 5069.JPG

The Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize of the university and the university town of Tübingen is an international award for young talent that has been awarded every two years since 1989. The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros. It was jointly donated by the university and the university town of Tübingen . This prize can be awarded to anyone who has made a new poetic contribution to the German language or is particularly connected to the work of Friedrich Hölderlin as a researcher, writer, artist or critic .

The jury consists of six members: two representatives each from the Philosophical Faculty of the University, the German Literature Archive Marbach and the Hölderlin Society .

Hölderlin lived in Tübingen during his studies and from 1806 until his death in 1843.

Award winners

literature

  • Jürgen Conradi: The Hölderlin Prize of the City of Bad Homburg . In: Ingrid Berg (Ed.): Heimat Hochtaunus , Frankfurt 1988, ISBN 3-7829-0375-7 , pp. 434–437.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As of 2019; until 2007 with 12,500 euros
  2. ↑ Until 2007 with 5,000 euros
  3. ↑ buchmarkt.de of March 20, 2015
  4. ↑ Light-handed Ernst in FAZ from March 15, 2016, page 14
  5. ↑ orf.at: Writer Eva Menasse receives the Hölderlin Prize . Article dated April 24, 2017, accessed April 24, 2017.
  6. ^ Friedrich Hölderlin Prize 2015 for Herta Müller. The writer is honored for her “virtuoso language accuracy, incorruptibility and her feeling for experiences of foreignness” , press release of the University of Tübingen, August 17, 2015

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