Klaus-Michael Kühne Prize
The Klaus Michael Kühne Prize is a literary prize for the best German-language debut novel of the year. The prize has been awarded annually at the Harbor Front Literature Festival in Hamburg since 2010 and is intended to underline the importance and significance of young literature. It is awarded as part of the Kühne Foundation's literature funding and is endowed with 10,000 euros (as of 2018). The award is named after Klaus-Michael Kühne .
history
In 2020 the Austrian cabaret artist Lisa Eckhart , who was nominated for the Kühne Prize for her novel Omama, was unloaded from the Harbor Front Literature Festival in Hamburg. In the event of a reading, it is not possible to guarantee the “safety of the visitors and the artist”. Your publisher informed the management of the festival that they would not accept the offer to take part in the competition for the Kühne Prize 2020 via a video reading. With Sascha Reh is also a writer was unable to read at an event, "which does not unequivocally behind the right to liberty in art and speech - even if there was a riot is". In an open letter, the President of the PEN Center in Germany, Regula Venske, compared the events surrounding Lisa Eckhart with the violent hostility to which Erich Maria Remarque was exposed to nothing new with In the West .
Award winners
- 2010 Inger-Maria Mahlke for Silberfischchen
- 2011 Albrecht Selge for Wach
- 2012 Olga Grjasnowa for The Russian is someone who loves birch trees
- 2013 Jelle Behnert for love, stones, shards
- 2014 Per Leo for flood and ground
- 2015 Kristine Bilkau for the lucky ones
- 2016 Dmitrij Kapitelman for The Smile of My Invisible Father
- 2017 Fatma Aydemir for elbows
- 2018 Philipp Weiss for At the edge of the world, people sit and laugh
- 2019 Dana from Suffrin for Otto
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Klaus-Michael Kühne Prize for novel debut announced. In: buchjournal.de. January 11, 2016, accessed July 30, 2019 .
- ^ Klaus-Michael-Kühne-Prize for Inger-Maria Mahlke. In: Börsenblatt . September 20, 2010, accessed July 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Literature Funding Harbor Front Literature Festival. In: website of the Kühne Foundation. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
- ^ Arno Frank : Cabaret artist Lisa Eckhart unloaded from literature festival - DER SPIEGEL - culture. In: Spiegel.de . August 5, 2020, accessed August 11, 2020 .
- ^ Arno Frank : Harbor Front Literature Festival: Lisa Eckhart rejects a compromise proposal. In: Spiegel.de . August 10, 2020, accessed on August 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Dmitrij Kapitelman receives the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize. In: The world . September 21, 2016, accessed July 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Fatma Aydemir receives the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize. In: Spiegel Online . September 20, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .
- ^ Austrian receives Klaus-Michael Kühne Prize 2018. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . September 20, 2018, accessed July 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Dana von Suffrin wins Kühne Prize , report on Börsenblatt.net from September 25, 2019, accessed on October 10, 2019.