Joseph Breitbach Prize
The Joseph Breitbach Prize is a German literary prize .
It has been awarded annually to German-speaking writers since 1998 by the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz and the Joseph Breitbach Foundation in Vaduz . The award is endowed with 50,000 euros (as of 2020) and is one of the most highly endowed literary prizes in addition to the Georg Büchner Prize , the Siegfried Lenz Prize , the Siegfried Unseld Prize , which is also open to scholars and, from 2020, the Grand Prize of the German Literature Fund Germany.
The Joseph Breitbach Prize goes back to the German writer Joseph Breitbach , who founded the prize in 1977.
Award winners
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Award winner 2019: Thomas Hettche
The prize has been awarded 23 times so far, to 27 men and 8 women (as of 2020).
| year | Award winners |
|---|---|
| 1998 | Hans Boesch |
| Friedhelm Kemp | |
| Brigitte Kronauer | |
| 1999 | Reinhard Jirgl |
| Wolf Lepenies | |
| Rainer Malkowski | |
| 2000 | Ilse Aichinger |
| WG Sebald | |
| Markus Werner | |
| 2001 | Thomas Hürlimann |
| Ingo Schulze | |
| Dieter Wellershoff | |
| 2002 | Elazar Benyoëtz |
| Erika Burkart | |
| Robert Menasse | |
| 2003 | Christoph Meckel |
| Herta Müller | |
| Harald Weinrich | |
| 2004 | Raoul scrap |
| 2005 | Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt |
| 2006 | Wulf Kirsten |
| 2007 | FC Delius |
| 2008 | Marcel Beyer |
| 2009 | Ursula Krechel |
| 2010 | Michael Kruger |
| 2011 | Hans Joachim Schädlich |
| 2012 | Kurt Flasch |
| 2013 | Jenny Erpenbeck |
| 2014 | Navid Kermani |
| 2015 | Thomas Lehr |
| 2016 | Pure sting |
| 2017 | Dea Loher |
| 2018 | Arno Geiger |
| 2019 | Thomas Hettche |
| 2020 | Nora Bossong |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The spring is here . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 11, 2014, No. 158, p. 9.