Kalbach rattlesnake

The Kalbacher Rattlesnake is an undoped literary prize that has been awarded annually by a children's jury in the Frankfurt district of Kalbach since 1988 .

background

The rattlesnake was the first youth literature award in Germany, which was awarded by a purely children's jury. The sponsoring association "Kinderverein Kalbach" as well as the award were brought into being by the writer Regina Rusch . The Kalbacher Rattlesnake has established itself as a youth literature award as a positive evaluation criterion for publishers and institutions. Reference is made to this award both on the book covers and when introducing authors and employees. As part of the promotion of reading in Hesse, reference is also made to the positive effects of the activities of the children's association and the pricing on the German education server .

Jury and evaluation

The children's jury is made up of children and adolescents aged 8 to 13 who must have read at least five books from a list of 60 suggestions in order to be able to evaluate them. Only novels for children between the ages of 8 and 13 and only publications from the previous year are eligible. The evaluation is based on both content-related criteria (understanding, traceability, tension) and formal aspects (design and readability).

Awards ceremonies

The prize is awarded every autumn at the local children's book fair. The winners receive a wooden rattlesnake. The author Cornelia Funke , who won the award in 1998, 2001 and 2004, called it one of her favorite awards. She and Elke Heidenreich , Isabel Abedi , Paul Maar and Sabine Ludwig have already been to Kalbach and read from their books. In 1992 there were two winners.

Award winners

1988: Kirsten Boie for Jenny is mostly nice and peaceful 1989: Roald Dahl for Matilda 1990: Sigrid Zeevaert for And especially Fabian 1991: Arnulf Zitelmann for Paule Pizolka 1992 (1): Paul Maar for New Points for Sams 1992 (2): Isolde Heyne for When the Nightingale falls silent 1993: Marita Conlon-McKenna for Always Follow the Flow 1994: Klaus Kordon for The First Spring 1995: Margaret Klare for Dear Aunt Vesna. Marta writes from Sarajevo 1996: Elke Heidenreich for Nero Corleone 1997: Klaus-Peter Wolf for The Magic of Wood 1998: Cornelia Funke for kite riders 1999: Nikolaus Piper for Felix and the love of money 2000: Joanne K. Rowling for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2001: Cornelia Funke for Lord of Thieves 2002: Andrea Klier for Sturmwind 2003: Victoria Hanley for The Seer's Eye

2004: Cornelia Funke for Inkheart 2005: Christopher Paolini for Eragon 2006: Carole Wilkinson for Guardian of the Dragon 2007: Jeanne Birdsall for The Penderwicks 2008: Ursula Wolter for Timona 2009: Jeff Kinney for Greg's Diary - Surrounded by Idiots 2010: Sabine Ludwig for The Most Terrible Mothers in the World 2011: Annette Roeder for holidays in the closet 2012: Sylvia Heinlein is a secret agent for Mama 2013: Nina Blazon for Laqua - The Curse of the Black Gondola 2014: Tim Collins (as AB Saddlewick) for Monster Mia and the Great Fear 2015: Nelli Emm for Nelli and the Princess 2016: Tanya Stewner for Alea Aquarius. The call of the water 2017: Aimée Carter for Animox - The Howl of the Wolves 2018: Mara Andeck for Lilo auf Löwenstein - Off to the castle 2019: Usch Luhn for Luna Wunderwald

Web links

• Website of the Kalbach rattlesnake
• Former homepage of the initiator Regina Rusch (with illus.) ( Memento from March 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Employee at the Goethe Institute Amsterdam ( Memento from 23 August 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Christine Schuster: Reading Promotion in Hesse. Retrieved January 16, 2019 . 
3. ↑ On the pleasure of reading . In: Frankfurter Rundschau Online , November 9, 2009. Accessed November 26, 2010.