Joseph Breitbach Prize

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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

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

  1. The spring is here . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 11, 2014, No. 158, p. 9.