Immermann Prize

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The Immermann Prize of the city of Dusseldorf was a literary prize , the 1936 to 1967 by the city of Dusseldorf was awarded. It was named after the playwright, storyteller and poet Karl Leberecht Immermann .

history

Between 1936 and 1943 (?) The Immermann Prize was awarded by Nazi cultural politicians to authors who conformed to ideology. After 1945 attempts were made to set other accents by choosing the 150th birthday of the most important Düsseldorf author Heinrich Heine (December 13, 1947), who was ostracized during the Nazi era, as the day on which the award was re-established. Apparently they did not yet trust themselves to commit themselves to Heine and award the prize in his name - the literary scholar Bernd Kortländer writes on this in his article Arno Schmidt and the Düsseldorfer Immermann Prize : “The old Nazi Prize was revived instead There was continuity. The documents in the city's archives show that in 1947 “the writer Emil Barth, who lives in Haan near Düsseldorf, was first asked to apply by the jury and then received the award”, but not Arno Schmidt , who is more important from today's perspective , who is also had advertised the award.

The Immermann Prize was awarded until 1967. In 1972 he was replaced by the newly founded Heinrich Heine Prize .

In addition to the literature prize, there were and are other art prizes in the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital, such as the Cornelius Prize (for painting and for sculpture) and the Robert Schumann Prize (for classical music). In addition to the main prizes, sponsorship prizes ( grants ) are awarded to artists who are not yet established.

Award winners

'Old' Immermann Prize 1936–43 (?)

'New' Immermann Prize after 1947

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