Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff Prize

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The Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff Prize , donated by the FVS Foundation (since 1994 Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS ), was intended for Germans in the Sudetenland , Bohemia , Moravia and Slovakia and was awarded from 1935 by a German board of trustees without an official one Tied to a university, from 1939 through the German (Charles) University in Prague .

Members of the Board of Trustees of the Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff Prize were Alfred Baeumler ; Gustav Becking ; Bruno Brehm ; Herbert Cysarz ; Anton Ernstberger ; Otto Grosser ; Arthur Herr ; Paul Hövel ; Hanns Johst ; Gustav Jungbauer ; Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer ; Arthur Kraft ; Franz Laufke ; Adolf Meschendörfer ; Ernst Otto; Heinz Wismann and Wilhelm Wostry .

The winners were:

1935 Gustav Leutelt , writer
1937 Wilhelm Srb-Schloßbauer , sculptor
1938 Herbert Cysarz , Germanist
1939 Hans Watzlik , writer
1940 Felix Petyrek , composer
1941 Walther Hensel , music educator, folk song researcher
1942 Erich Gierach , Germanist
1943 Emil Lehmann , folklorist

Since 1956 the Wangener Kreis has been awarding a new Eichendorff literary prize .

literature

Jan Zimmermann: The FVS Foundation's Culture Awards 1935–1945. Presentation and documentation. Published by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS Christians, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-7672-1374-5 .