Hugo Ball Prize
The Hugo Ball Prize is a German literature prize that is awarded in Pirmasens ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). The award honors personalities who work in the humanities and / or art in the sense of the writer Hugo Ball , who was born in Pirmasens in 1886 . Ball went down in literary history in 1916 as a co-founder of Dadaism in Zurich .
criteria
The prize was awarded in 1990 by the city of Pirmasens and is awarded every three years. Award-winning examples are listed in the award guidelines:
- a literary work or complete work
- a time-critical work or complete work in a philosophical basic attitude
- an art, theater or musicological work or complete work
The price is not divisible and is associated with a financial contribution of 10,000 euros; In addition, a sponsorship award worth 5,000 euros can be awarded.
Award winners
| year | Grand Prize (€ 10,000) | Sponsorship award (€ 5,000) |
| 1990 | Oskar Pastior (writer) | Thomas Rosenlöcher (writer) |
| 1993 | Cees Nooteboom (writer) | Ulrich Holbein (writer) |
| 1996 | Robert Menasse (writer) | Ralph Dutli (writer) |
| 1999 | Klaus Wagenbach (publisher) | Judith Hermann (writer) |
| 2002 | Patrick Roth (writer) | Steffen Jacobs (writer) |
| 2005 | Feridun Zaimoğlu (writer) | Christian Lehnert (poet) |
| 2008 | Max Goldt (writer and musician) | Alexander Nitzberg (poet and translator) |
| 2011 | Andreas Maier (writer) | Ulrich Koch (poet) |
| 2014 | Thomas Hürlimann (writer) | Marc Degens (writer, publisher and musician) |
| 2017 | Ann Cotten (writer) | Philipp Felsch (historian and cultural scientist) |
| 2020 | Bov Bjerg (writer) | Kinga Tóth (writer) |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guidelines for the award of the Hugo Ball Prize of the city of Pirmasens. (PDF; 33.6 kB) (No longer available online.) City of Pirmasens, May 5, 2008, p. 1 , archived from the original on January 6, 2017 ; accessed on January 6, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hugo Ball Prize 2020 goes to Bov Bjerg / Promotion Prize for Kinga Tóth. In: fixpoetry.de. October 21, 2019, accessed October 21, 2019 .
