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
The prize has been awarded 23 times so far, to 27 men and 8 women (as of 2020).
year | Award winners |
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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.