Jeanette Schocken Prize
The Jeanette Schocken Prize - Bremerhaven Citizen Prize for Literature was founded in 1991 by the Citizens' Association and the City of Bremerhaven .
This literary prize is intended to commemorate May 6, 1933, when books were burned to public applause on the market square in Bremerhaven . On the other hand, Jeanette Schockens , the widow of the Bremerhaven department store owner Julius Schocken , should be remembered. After the November pogroms in 1938, Jeanette Schocken gave shelter to Jewish citizens and helped them to leave the country. Because of her seriously ill daughter, she did not flee herself. She was deported to Minsk in November 1941 and allegedly murdered in the Maly Trostinez extermination camp .
The Jeanette Schocken Prize aims to set an example against injustice and violence, against hatred and intolerance. The city of Bremerhaven finances the jury meetings and the supporting program that takes place every two years on the occasion of the award ceremony, as well as the Jeanette Schocken Literature Days in the intervening years . The endowment of the prize in the amount of 7,500 euros (as of 2019) is provided by donations from the Bremerhaven Citizens' Association.
The jury includes: Gabriele von Arnim , Nico Bleutge , Hugo Dittberner , Zsuzsanna Gahse and Wend Kässens .
Former jury members were: Wolfgang Promies († 2002), Elsbeth Wolffheim († 2002) and Carola Stern († 2006).
Award winners
- 2019 Dževad Karahasan
- 2017 Aris Fioretos
- 2015 Gerhard Roth
- 2013 Péter Esterházy
- 2011 Richard Sennett
- 2009 Ursula Krechel
- 2007 Lizzie Doron
- 2005 at Dao
- 2003 George Tabori
- 2001 Barbara Honigmann
- 1999 Tuvia Rübner
- 1997 Imre Kertész
- 1995 Louis Begley
- 1993 Hanna Krall
- 1991 Irene Dische
literature
- Hans-Eberhard Happel u. a .: Schocken, a German story . Northwest German VG, Bremerhaven 1994, ISBN 3-927857-53-X .
- Gisela Lehrke (Ed.): 10 years of the Jeanette Schocken Prize. Bremerhaven Citizens Prize for Literature; a documentation . Cultural Office, Bremerhaven 2000.
- Gisela Lehrke, Johann P. Tammen (ed.): Jeanette Schocken Prize - 20 years of the Bremerhaven Citizens Prize for Literature. A documentation. Wirtschaftsverlag NW Verlag für neue Wissenschaft, Bremerhaven 2010, ISBN 978-3-86509-925-9