Hermann Sinsheimer Prize

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The Hermann Sinsheimer Prize is a German literature prize that has been awarded in odd years by the Palatinate city ​​of Freinsheim ( Rhineland-Palatinate ) since 1983 . It is endowed with 2500 euros. In even years, the city awards the Hermann Sinsheimer plaque . Both awards commemorate the Jewish writer, theater critic and journalist Hermann Sinsheimer (1883–1950), who was born in Freinsheim . He had to flee to England during the Nazi era ; two of his siblings were victims of the Holocaust .

Those honored are not necessarily recognized as literary figures , but primarily because of their services to literature . The awards were initiated by Gert Weber (1927–2010). In 2006, at the 4th award, he was honored for his life's work with the Hermann Sinsheimer plaque. Klaus Bähr (1938–2020), mayor for 28 years, was co-initiator and chairman of the jury from the start. In 2009 he received the Federal Cross of Merit for 60 years of political and cultural commitment, later the golden badge of honor of the association and the honorary citizenship of the city.

Award winners

Hermann Sinsheimer Prize
2019 Herta Müller
2017 Navid Kermani
2015 Rafik Schami
2013 Dieter Hildebrandt
2011 Ivan Nagel
2009 Günther Rühle
2007 Peter Scholl-Latour
2005 Christa Wolf
2003 Walter Kempowski
2001 Ralph Giordano
1999 Marion Countess Dönhoff
1997 Siegfried Lenz
1995 Carola Stern
1993 Hilde Domin
1991 Marcel Reich-Ranicki
1989 Walter Jens
1987 Peter Härtling
1985 Ingeborg Drewitz
1983 Wolfgang Schwarz

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gert Weber, Rolf Paulus (Ed.): Writer and theater critic between home and exile - Sinsheimer, Hermann . Selection from the complete works. Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt, Landau (Pfalz) 1986, ISBN 3-87629-099-6 .
  2. ^ Hermann Sinsheimer badge 2006 . In: Official Journal of the Freinsheim Association . No. 9 , March 2, 2006.
  3. Dagmar Schindler-Nickel: Former Mayor Klaus Bähr has died. In: The Rhine Palatinate . March 23, 2020, accessed July 25, 2020 .
  4. rgb (author's abbreviation): Sinsheimer Prize: Herta Müller is honored in Freinsheim. In: The Rhine Palatinate . September 22, 2018, accessed January 7, 2019 .