Geschwister-Scholl-Prize
The Geschwister-Scholl-Preis is a literary prize that was awarded in 1980 by the Bavarian State Association. V. was initiated in the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels and the City of Munich . The award is given annually to a book "which testifies to intellectual independence and is suitable for promoting civil liberty, moral, intellectual and aesthetic courage and giving important impulses to the current sense of responsibility."
The prize is named in memory of and in honor of Sophie and Hans Scholl because of their commitment to the White Rose in the resistance against National Socialism . It is endowed with 10,000 euros and will be presented at a ceremony in Munich's Ludwig Maximilians University .
Award winners
- 1980: Rolf Hochhuth : A love in Germany
- 1981: Reiner Kunze : On your own hope
- 1982: Franz Fühmann : The fall of the angel
- 1983: Walter Dirks : Was I a left nut?
- 1984: Anja Rosmus Wenninger : Resistance and Persecution
- 1985: Jürgen Habermas : The new complexity
- 1986: Cordelia Edvardson : Burned child seeks fire
- 1987: Christa Wolf : Incident
- 1988: Grete Weil : The bride price
- 1989: Helmuth James Graf von Moltke : Letters to Freya 1939–1945 (posthumous award)
- 1990: Lea Rosh / Eberhard Jäckel : Death is a master from Germany
- 1991: Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt : The isolation
- 1992: Barbara Distel / Wolfgang Benz (eds.): Dachauer Hefte No. 7 Solidarity and Resistance
- 1993: Wolfgang Sofsky : The order of terror - The concentration camp
- 1994: Heribert Prantl : Germany easily inflammable - Investigations against Bonn politics
- 1995: Victor Klemperer : I want to give testimony to the last. Diaries 1933–1945 (posthumous award)
- 1996: Hans Deichmann : Objects
- 1997: Ernst Klee : Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims
- 1998: Saul Friedländer : The Third Reich and the Jews
- 1999: Peter Gay : My German question
- 2000: Helene Holzman : This child should live (posthumous award)
- 2001: Arno Gruen : The stranger in us
- 2002: Raul Hilberg : The sources of the Holocaust
- 2003: Mark Roseman : In an unguarded moment. A woman survives underground
- 2004: Soazig Aaron : Klaras NO
- 2005: Necla Kelek : The Strange Bride
- 2006: Mihail Sebastian : Full of horror, but not desperate (posthumous)
- 2007: Anna Politkowskaja : Russian diary (posthumous)
- 2008: David Grossman : The Power to Correct
- 2009: Roberto Saviano : The opposite of death
- 2010: Joachim Gauck : Winter in Summer - Spring in Autumn: Memories
- 2011: Liao Yiwu : For one song and a hundred songs. A testimony from Chinese prisons
- 2012: Andreas Huckele (under his pseudonym Jürgen Dehmers ) for his book How loud should I still scream? The Odenwald School and sexual abuse
- 2013: Otto Dov Kulka for Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death. Auschwitz and the limits of memory and imagination
- 2014: Glenn Greenwald for Global Surveillance. The Snowden case, the American secret services and the consequences
- 2015: Achille Mbembe for Critique of Black Reason
- 2016: Garance Le Caisne for code name Caesar. At the heart of the Syrian death machine
- 2017: Hisham Matar for The Return. Looking for my lost father
- 2018: Götz Aly for Europe against the Jews 1880–1945
- 2019: Ahmet Altan for I'll never see the world again. Texts from prison
literature
- Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (publisher): 25 years Geschwister-Scholl-Preis , Munich 2004
Web links
Commons : Geschwister-Scholl-Preis - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Geschwister-Scholl-Prize
- About the award (City of Munich)