Limburg Prize
The Limburg Prize is a German literary prize awarded by the Palatinate district town of Bad Dürkheim . It deals with the literary genre of prose and, along with the Georg K. Glaser Prize , the Martha Saalfeld Prize and the Palatinate Prize for Literature, is one of the most important literary awards in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate .
overview
The Limburg Prize competition has been held every three years since 1991 and is organized by the Bad Dürkheim Art Association on behalf of the city . The prize was named after the Limburg monastery ruin above the city , because the monks of the monastery, which emerged from a castle, mainly cultivated literature in the Middle Ages . In 2009, 667 authors submitted their contributions.
Invitation to tender and funding
According to the regulations, every author up to 40 years of age who has at least one independent fiction book publication (not self-published) or a prose article in a magazine or anthology is eligible to participate. He can submit a previously unpublished prose text ( story in the narrower sense) in German. There is no thematic specification.
The three-person jury includes the winner of the previous competition. The submission period is in the second quarter of the year of the application, the award ceremony takes place in the following autumn in the town hall of Bad Dürkheim.
The winners of the competition will receive cash prizes. Up to 2003, three prizes were awarded, from the 2006 invitation to tender, the 2nd and 3rd prizes were dispensed with. In return, contributions that have reached the final can be awarded the rating “excellent” without a cash prize being associated with it. In the period between 2000 and 2006 there was also a sponsorship award donated by the Ludwigshafen daily Die Rheinpfalz .
The awarding of the prizes developed as follows over time:
| Prices | until 2001 | 2003 only | 2006 only | since 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Prize | 3000 DM | 1500 € | 2500 € | 4000 € |
| 2nd prize | 2000 DM | 1000 € | ||
| 3rd prize | 1500 DM | 750 € | ||
| Sponsorship award | 500 DM | 250 € | 750 € |
Award winners
- 1991
- Main prize: Dieter Henkel for over two continents
- 2nd prize: Gabriele Weingartner , then St. Martin, for On the Art of Not Dying While Using the Underground
- 3rd prize: Michael Rumpf , Grünstadt, for sintering
- 1994
- Main prize: Markus Kemminer for Die Vögel
- 2nd prize: Susanne Faschon , Jakobsweiler, for heaven and hell
- 3rd prize: Klaus Wiegerling for The Second Man
- 1997
- Main prize: Claudia Diemar for post-run
- 2nd prize: Sabine Kornbichler for Lilly's answer
- 3rd prize: Verena Mahlow for My Silence
- 2000
- Main prize: Nils Mohl , Hamburg, for We'll talk about the elephants later
- 2nd prize: Stefan Monhardt for The Story of Meat
- 3rd prize: Markus Ramseier , Pratteln (Switzerland), for under the skin
- Sponsorship award: Martin von Arndt , Markgröningen, for finding
- 2003
- Main prize: Markus Orths , Karlsruhe, for Kleinewelt
- 2nd prize: Susanne Heinrich , Leipzig, for Other people turn around an laugh at you
- 3rd prize: Carina Nekolny , Vienna, for Der Pullover
- Sponsorship award: Franziska Gerstenberg , Leipzig, for fortune cookies
- 2006
- Main prize: Simon Urban , Hagen, for Promised Land
- Sponsorship award: Johanna Hemkentokrax , Leipzig, for Schlangenbach
- Classification "excellent" for the contributions by
- Philip Meinhold , Berlin
- Antje Telgenbüscher , Paderborn
- Birgit Schwaner , Vienna
- Dorothee Trachternach , Hildesheim
- Waltraud Bondiek , Radebeul
- Birgit van der Leeden , Neustadt (Holstein)
- Claudia Rußwurm , Allensbach
- Emma Braslavsky , Berlin
- 2009
- Main prize: Silke Andrea Schuemmer for Subject: Second installment
- Hans van Ooyen and Elke Heinemann also made it into the final selection .
- 2012
- Main prize: Janna Steenfatt for Lumi means snow
- 2015
- Main prize: Florian Wacker for Die Springerin
- 2019
- Main prize: Martin Peichl for heart body
- Classification "excellent" for the contributions by
- Marie T. Martin , Freiburg
- Tilman Hoffer , Zurich
- Sophia Fritz , Munich
- Yannic Han Biao Federer , Cologne
- Edda Reimann , Berlin
- Philipp Brotz , Freiburg
- Erik Wunderlich , Freiburg
Web links
- City of Bad Dürkheim: Limburg Prize
- Kunstverein Bad Dürkheim (menu item Literature )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Die Rheinpfalz , Bad Dürkheim edition, August 24, 2011
- ^ District town Bad Dürkheim: Announcement literature competition. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 17, 2007 ; Retrieved August 26, 2011 .
- ^ District town Bad Dürkheim: Prize winners and places. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 15, 2012 ; Retrieved August 26, 2011 .
- ^ Peter Nonnenmacher: Kunstverein Bad Dürkheim eV - Limburg Prize 2015. In: www.kunstverein-bad-duerkheim.de. Retrieved June 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Lucia Cornelius-Horstmann: Kunstverein Bad Dürkheim eV - press. In: www.kunstverein-bad-duerkheim.de. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .