Gertrud Kolmar Prize

The Gertrud Kolmar Prize is a German literary prize for poetry that has been awarded by the online literature platform Fixpoetry since 2019 and "is aimed exclusively at women". The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros. In addition, a second prize worth 4,000 euros and a sponsorship award worth 2,500 euros will be awarded. The prize is determined by a jury, which judges submitted, previously unpublished poems. It goes back to an initiative by Julietta Fix and is funded by the Hamburg Elbkulturfonds . The award honors the memory of the poet Gertrud Kolmar .

The first winner in 2019 was the author Ulrike Draesner , who was awarded for her poem Doggerland . Second prize went to Pega Mund for her submission, Five Pigments, and the Ronya Othmann Prize for her poem I saw .

The jury in 2019 included:

• Esther Dischereit (Chair in Contemporary Poetics at New York University)
• Nefeli Kavouras (employee at mairisch Verlag )
• Olga Martynova (writer)
• Beate Tröger (freelance critic)
• Insa Wilke (freelance critic)

Web links

• Official site on Fixpoetry.com