Art Prize for Literature Photography
The Art Prize for Literature Photography , awarded by the State of Brandenburg Lotto GmbH , honored outstanding authors and photographers from Berlin and Brandenburg every year from 2005 to 2016 .
background
Lotto Brandenburg has been promoting contemporary art since 1993. According to the company, the aim of this commitment is to contribute to the diversity and vitality of art. Until 1998 Lotto Brandenburg supported artists in the creation of their catalogs. The company then awarded work grants for photographers from 1999 to 2003. In 2005 the invitation to tender for the Literature Photography Art Prize started. Lotto Brandenburg awarded prize money of 10,000 euros for each art form. An independent jury of experts could nominate up to two art award winners per category, among whom the prize money was divided. Only artists who had their artistic focus and residence in Berlin and Brandenburg were allowed to apply.
Art Prize for Literature
The Literature Art Prize was aimed at writers. Books from the literary fields of prose and poetry that had appeared in the current year or in the previous year were eligible for application. According to Lotto Brandenburg, the following works were excluded from the tender: works of drama, essays, translations, non-fiction books, scripts, self-published books (or self-published), e-books and manuscripts.
Art Prize Photography
The Photography Art Prize was aimed at photographers and visual artists. These should artistically implement a free theme using photographic elements.
jury
A three-person jury in the categories of literature and photography selected the winners.
The members of the literature jury in 2016 were:
- Julia Schoch (author, Potsdam)
- Harald Asel (Editor / Author / Moderator, Inforadio , Berlin)
- Peter Walther (literary scholar, Brandenburg Literature Office , Potsdam)
The members of the photography jury in 2016 were:
- Ulrike Kremeier (Director / Member of the Board of Art Museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus )
- Michael Biedowicz (photo editor ZEITmagazin and curator of the gallery pavlov's dog, Berlin)
- Steffen Mühle (photographer / artist and speaker at cultural festivals in the state of Brandenburg, Potsdam)
Award winners
Literature category
| year | Award winners | plant |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Michael Wildenhain | The alligators smile
ALFF |
| 2015 | Julia Wolf | Everything is now |
| 2014 | Sascha Reh | Gibraltar |
| 2013 | Bjorn Kuhligk | The silence between zero and one
Inner music |
| 2012 | Annett Groeschner | Walpurgi Day |
| 2011 | Daniela Seel | I cannot find this place again |
| 2010 | Hanna Lemke | Secured
All the lights |
| 2009 | Marion Poschmann | Dog novella
Not a beautiful country |
| 2008 | Julia Schoch | At the speed of summer
A nice life |
| 2007 |
Katja Lange-Müller
Thorsten Palzhoff |
Angry sheep
Tasmon |
| 2006 | Rabea Edel | The water in which we sleep
Paul's case |
| 2005 | Grit Poppe | How the dice fall
Game, set, failure |
Category photography
| year | Award winners | plant |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Verónica Losantos
Sven Gatter |
screen memories
BLOOMING TIMES |
| 2015 | Stephanie Steinkopf
Rainer Sioda |
Bird free
Transatlantic Relations |
| 2014 | Rudi Meisel | Compatriots 1977–1987
Reenactment MfS |
| 2013 | Ingar Krauss
Julian Röder |
Nature Morte
Mission and Task |
| 2012 |
Beatrice Minda
Göran Gnaudschun |
Tea time in Tehran
Berlin Alexanderplatz |
| 2011 |
Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler
Simon Menner |
Monalises of the suburbs
Images from the secret archives of the State Security |
| 2010 |
Kai Wiedenhöfer
Sabine Springer |
Border countries
solenn |
| 2009 | Viktoria Binschtok
Benedikt Partenheimer |
Suspicious minds
Turnaround |
| 2008 | Vincent Voignier | Gipsy Homestories
It's a man's world |
| 2007 | Erik Schiemann
Fred Hüning |
The day comes
one |
| 2006 | Frank Gaudlitz
Oliver Kern |
casa mare
The German prospect |
| 2005 | Marei Wenzel
Mathias Marx |
Pie in the sky
Images of childhood |