Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz Prize for Drama
The Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz Prize for Drama of the City of Jena , as it is called in full, was set up in 1996 as a competition prize for young playwrights . With this theater award , the city of Jena wants to remember Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz , who had a very “productive creative period” in Thuringia in 1776, as the city fathers stated. However, under the motto “give the homeless a home”, the donors want to “encourage discussion of drama”.
The award, which is presented every three years in close cooperation with the Theaterhaus Jena , is endowed with a total of 10,000 euros.
Award winners
- 1997 Dea Loher for Adam Geist ; Special award for Ulrich Zieger for The sun is blue
- 2000 Katharina Tanner for all love and Robert Woelfl for work for the heart, love for the hands (price shared)
- 2003 Claudius Lünstedt for Must Box
- 2006 Katharina Schmitt for Knock Out
- 2009 Christiane Kalss for indoors
- 2013 Henriette Dushe for In a dense birch forest, Nebel