Hermann Lenz Prize
The Hermann Lenz Prize was a literature prize endowed with 15,000 euros that was awarded to a German-speaking writer every year from 1999 to 2009. The prize, named after Hermann Lenz , was donated by Hubert Burda in succession to the Petrarca Prize . The jury members were Peter Hamm , Peter Handke , Alfred Kolleritsch and Michael Krüger .
Award winners
- 1999: Josef W. Janker
- 2000: Johannes Kühn
- 2001: Ralf Rothmann
- 2002: Erich Wolfgang Skwara
- 2003: Joseph Zoderer
- 2004: Walter Kappacher
- 2005: Franz Weinzettl
- 2006: Jürgen Becker
- 2007: Angela Krauss
- 2008: Xaver Bayer
- 2009: Friederike Mayröcker
Hermann Lenz Scholarship
Together with this prize, the Hermann Lenz Scholarship was awarded, which Hanne and Hermann Lenz had set up for young German-speaking writers or literary scholars. The scholarship will continue to be awarded and will be awarded together with the Petrarca Prize and the Hubert Burda Prize for Young Poetry from 2010 .
Hermann Lenz scholarship holders
- 1997 Felicitas Hoppe
- 1998 Doron Rabinovici , Daniel Hoffmann
- 1999 Jagoda Marinić , Walle Sayer , Christian Lehnert
- 2000 Lutz Seiler , Norbert Hummelt , Richard Obermayr
- 2001 Fridolin Schley , Catalin Dorian Florescu , Marica Bodrožić , Tom Wolf
- 2002 Mikael Vogel , Händl Klaus , Xaver Bayer , Wolfgang Welt
- 2003 Jörg Matheis , Julia Schoch , Denis Mikan
- 2004 Thomas Stangl , Monique Schwitter , Christine Pitzke
- 2005 Martina Hefter , Andrea Winkler , Gerhild Steinbuch , Antanas Gailius
- 2006 Daniela Danz , Philipp Weiss , Nico Bleutge
- 2007 Angelika Reitzer , Katharina Tanner, Simone Hirth
- 2008 Nancy Hünger , Kerstin Preiwuss, Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker , Simone Bischoff
- 2009 Julia Blesken, Christian Rosenau
- 2010 Nadja Küchenmeister , Mirja Leena Klein, Drago Tesevic
- 2011 Renatus Deckert , Silvia Wolkan
- 2012 Olga Grjasnowa
- 2013 Ulrich Rüdenauer
literature
- Hubert Burda, Michael Krüger (ed.): A festival of poetry. Hermann Lenz Prize 1999 - 2009 , Petrarca Verlag, Munich 2009