Leo Perutz Prize
The Leo Perutz Prize is a literary prize awarded by the municipality of Vienna and the main association of the Austrian book trade . The award is named after the writer Leo Perutz (1882–1957).
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Every year, the Leo Perutz Prize is awarded to the best new publication from the crime novel genre in the German-speaking area that has a specific connection to Vienna. A jury is responsible for the award, which draws up a shortlist and selects the final winner from this. The award was first presented on September 28, 2010. The prize is endowed with 5000 euros.
jury
The jury always consists of a representative from the City of Vienna (MA7), from the Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade, from journalism, from the assortment and an author. The decisions of the jury are made independently, the jury does not give praise.
The current jury (2015 to 2017) consists of:
- Michaela Bokon , Thalia bookstore
- Sylvia Faßl-Vogler , Cultural Department of the City of Vienna
- Christoph Huber, journalist
- Erwin Riedesser , Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade , speaker of the jury
- Eva Rossmann (2015), author and 2014 Leo Perutz Prize winner
- Theresa Prammer (2016), author and Leo Perutz Prize winner 2015
- Andreas Gruber (2017), author and Leo Perutz Prize winner 2016
Award winners and nominations
- 2010
- The mattress home of Paul Hochgatterer
- Nice dead by Edith Kneifl
- The Naschmarkt murders by Gerhard Loibelsberger
- Waiting for Poirot by Nora Miedler
- Lemmings Zorn von Stefan Slupetzky Prize Winner
- 2011
- The trimmings dealer from Koytek / Stein Prize winner
- Soul charter by Martin Mucha
- The butcher gets the devil from Thomas Raab
- Evelyn's case by Eva Rossmann
- Operation Rheingold by Franz Winter
- 2012
- Triangle by Anne Goldmann
- The better person by Georg Haderer
- Death drives the ferris wheel. A historical Vienna crime thriller by Edith Kneifl
- The butcher breaks the ice by Thomas Raab
- The Sword of the East by Manfred Rebhandl Prize winner
- 2013
- Girl's eye by Christian David
- Angels and demons by Georg Haderer
- Marathon duel by Sabina Naber
- Death behind St. Stephen's Cathedral by Beate Maxian
- The butcher comes to the paradise of Thomas Raab award winners
- 2014
- Junkyard Blues by Jürgen Benvenuti
- The Polycrates Syndrome by Antonio Fian
- Anne Goldmann's light shaft
- Men's traps by Eva Rossmann award winner
- Polivka has a dream from Stefan Slupetzky
- 2015
- Sun bride from Christian David
- Death sentence by Andreas Gruber
- Expensive silence from Daniela Larcher
- Wiener Totenlieder by Theresa Prammer Prize winner
- In bed with the devil by Dolores Schmidinger
- 2016
- The old masters of Hannelore Fischer
- Fall of revenge from Andreas Gruber laureate
- Seestadt by Fritz Lehner
- Death in the Hofburg by Beate Maxian
- Goodbye from Andreas Pittler
- 2017
- The second rider of Alex Beer award winner
- Christopher Just's fashion detective
- First move by Stefan Peters
- The unknown sister of Theresa Prammer
- Bird of the Dead by Hans-Peter Vertacnik
- 2018
- Death before Steffl by Albert Frank
- Wrong light by David Krems
- NITRO by Fritz Lehner Prize winner
- Death in the imperial crypt of Beate Maxian
- The woman in the red coat by Günter Neuwirth
- 2019
- The dark messenger from Alex Beer award winner
- The greater crime of Anne Goldmann
- Murder on the Danube by Beate Maly
- The shadow of Melanie Raabe
- The sleepless Cheng by Heinrich Steinfest
- 2020
- Viennese blues by Johann Allacher
- Too many cleaning ladies in El Awadalla
- Vanitas - gray like ash by Ursula Poznanski
- In the Lemming Network by Stefan Slupetzky
- Danube Melodies - Prater Blood by Bastian Zach
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leo Perutz Prize is awarded for the first time. In: Der Standard from September 6, 2010.
- ↑ The shortlist for the 6th Leo Perutz Prize has been set. ( Memento from August 17, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) In: buecher.at from June 11, 2015.
- ↑ 1. Leo Perutz Prize goes to Stefan Slupetzky ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Koytek & Stein: "The trimmings dealer" kunsthaus muerz
- ^ Aviso September 12th: Awarding of the Leo Perutz Prize RK, September 6th, 2012
- ↑ derStandard.at on the 2012 winner
- ↑ boersenblatt.net: Five remain in the race from June 10, 2013
- ↑ orf.at on the 2013 award winner
- ↑ derStandard.at: Eva Rossmann receives Leo Perutz Prize 2014
- ↑ orf.at - Theresa Prammer wins Leo Perutz Prize . Article dated September 10, 2015, accessed September 11, 2015.
- ↑ orf.at: Leo Perutz Prize for crime literature goes to Alex Beer . Article dated September 13, 2017, accessed September 14, 2017.
- ↑ Leo Perutz Prize for Crime Literature 2019: Five times high voltage. Retrieved July 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Alex Beer wins the Leo Perutz Prize for Viennese crime literature 2019 with “Der dunkle Bote” . In: buecher.at. November 5, 2019, accessed November 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Leo Perutz Prize for crime literature 2020 - the shortlist is here! In: buecher.at. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .