Klaus Groth Prize
The Klaus Groth Prize is a Low German literary prize for poetry and goes back to the well-known poet and writer Klaus Groth . It is currently endowed with 3000 euros.
A first prize with this name was donated in 1939 a few months before the start of the Second World War by the Association of Low German Hamburg and the Westphalian Homeland Federation. The prize should be awarded every two years in the amount of 1000 Reichsmarks and at the same time honor the patron saint, the creator of the "Quickborn". The first award took place as part of the celebrations for the 120th birthday of Klaus Groth (1819–1899) to the Sauerland dialect poet Christine Koch .
From 1956 to 1984 the prize was awarded by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS and later every two or three years by the city of Heide . In 1984 the foundation's six Low German prizes, including the Richard Ohnsorg , Fritz Stavenhagen and Hans Böttcher prizes, were combined to form the Fritz Reuter Prize .
In 2004 the prize was reissued as the “Klaus Groth Prize of the City of Heide” by the Low German author Karl-Heinz Groth from Goosefeld .
Prize winners
- 1939: Christine Koch
- 1952: Berend de Vries and Heinrich Wienke
- 1956: Hermann Claudius
- 1958: Otto Tenne
- 1960: Carl Budich
- 1963: Norbert Johannimloh
- 1966: Johann Diedrich Bellmann
- 1968: Hans Ehrke
- 1971: Oswald Andrae
- 1975: Siegfried Kessemeier
- 1978: Peter Kuhweide
- 1981: Greta Schoon
- 1984: Aloys Terbille and Jürgen Kropp (sponsorship award, only awarded once)
- 2004: Willi Gerbode
- 2007: Jürgen Kropp for the cycle of poems Afdanz
- 2009: Jürgen Heitmann for the poems sotoseggen , tegenaan , tiedenwessel and koppheister
- 2011: Birgit Lemmermann
- 2013: Jürgen Kropp for the cycle of poems Ganz alleen. En dodendance
- 2015: Rainer Prüß
- 2019: Martha-Luise Lessing