Jean Améry Prize
The Jean Améry Prize for European Essay Writing is an "award for outstanding achievements in the field of time-critical, educational essays ", newly established by Robert Menasse in 1999 in memory of Jean Améry . The prize is awarded every two years.
The prize had already been donated in 1982 by Maria Améry, Améry's widow, together with Amérys Verlag Klett-Cotta , and was awarded four times until 1991. Robert Menasse used the prize money of the 1999 Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism as the basis for reviving the Jean-Améry Prize, which has now been awarded regularly since 2000.
Menasse in profile : Jean Améry wrote “exemplary essays in line with the requirements of the Enlightenment. ... Signal and Impulse "should be the name of the revived price. The independent jury has so far included: Günter Kunert , Helmut Heißenbüttel , Heinz Ludwig Arnold , Karl-Markus Gauß , Wolfgang Büscher . The current jury (as of November 2015) is: Robert Menasse (chair), László F. Földényi , Michael Krüger , Gila Lustiger , Christina Weiss and Claudio Magris (honorary member of the jury). Since 2015, the award has been given a more European focus by Klett-Cotta Verlag and the Allianz Kulturstiftung in cooperation with Eurozine .
With prize money of € 15,000, it is one of the most highly endowed essay awards in the German-speaking world.
Award winners
- 1982: Lothar Baier
- 1985: Barbara Sichtermann
- 1988: Mathias Greffrath
- 1991: Reinhard Merkel , criminal lawyer and legal philosopher
- 2000: Franz Schuh
- 2002: Doron Rabinovici
- 2004: Michael Jeismann , journalist, for goodbye yesterday. The German past and the politics of tomorrow
- 2007: Drago Jančar
- 2009: Imre Kertész
- 2012: Dubravka Ugrešić
- 2016: Adam Zagajewski
- 2018: Karl-Markus Gauß
- 2020: Ivan Krastev
Web links
- Information on the Jean Améry Prize from Klett-Cotta
- Information on the Jean Améry Prize at the Allianz Kulturstiftung
- "Focal Point" for the Jean Améry Prize 2016 on Eurozine
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean Améry Prize for Dubravka Ugresic . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (Culture) of August 29, 2012, p. B5
- ↑ orf.at: Karl-Markus Gauß receives Jean Amery Prize . Article dated December 15, 2017, accessed December 15, 2017.
- ^ Jean Améry Prize for European Essay Writing to Karl-Markus Gauß , buchmarkt.de, December 15, 2017, accessed on December 15, 2017.
- ↑ The Jean Améry Prize for European Essay Writing goes to Ivan Krastev in 2020 , buchreport.de of March 10, 2020, accessed March 24, 2020