List of German literature prizes

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This list contains literary prizes awarded in Germany , whereby many of these prizes are not limited to German authors , but are generally awarded to German-speaking authors. For Austrian and Swiss prices see:

A.

Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
Agatha Christie Mystery Award
Alfred Müller Felsenburg Prize
Alemannic Literature Prize
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin Prize
Alexander Zinn Prize
Alex Wedding Prize
Alfred Döblin Prize
Alfred Döblin Medal
Andreas Gryphius Prize
Annette von Droste Hülshoff Prize
Arno Reinfrank Literature Prize
Arno Schmidt Prize
Aspects Literature Prize
Astrid Lindgren Prize
August Graf von Platen Prize of the city of Ansbach
The extraordinary book of the Berlin International Literature Festival

B.

C.

D.

Debut award of the Buddenbrookhaus

Dedalus Prize for New Literature

DeLiA Literature Prize , awarded by the DeLiA - Association of German-Speaking Romance Novel Authors

The Golden Michl

German-French translation award

German Book Prize

German Book Prize

German Fantasy Prize

German Fantastic Prize

German Garden Book Prize awarded by Schloss Dennenlohe since 2006

German Crime Prize

German Short Crime Prize, see Tatort Eifel

German Youth Literature Prize

German Non-Fiction Prize , from the German Library Association , endowed with DM 10,000, donated by the City of Oldenburg

German Non-Fiction Prize , of the German Book Trade Association from 2020

German Science Fiction Prize

German language award

Poet award of the city of Minden, see Die Kogge

Dramatist Prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft in the BDI

Dr. Hartwig Kleinholz Prize for young prose

Dresden Poetry Prize

Dresden town clerk

Joseph E. Drexel Prize, see Joseph E. Drexel Foundation

E.

Egon Erwin Kisch Prize
Ehm-Welk Literature Prize
Ephraim Kishon Literature Prize
Honorary gift from the Heinrich Heine Society
Eichendorff Literature Prize
Invitation to the meeting of young authors
Else Lasker Schüler Dramatist Prize
Else-Lasker-Schüler-Poetry Prize of the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft
Emy's non-fiction award
Erich Kästner Prize of the Erich Kästner Society
Erich Loest Prize
Erik Reger Prize
Ernst Bloch Prize
Ernst Hoferichter Prize
Ernst Johann Literature Prize from Schifferstadt
Ernst Meister Prize for Poetry
Ernst Robert Curtius Prize for essay writing
Ernst Toller Prize
erostepost literature prize
Essay Prize from the Gutenberg Book Guild
Owl of the month from Bulletin Youth & Literature
Eulenspiegel Prize
Evangelical Book Prize
Erich Mühsam Prize of the Erich Mühsam Society
Exile Literature Prize "Writing Between Cultures"

F.

F. C. Weiskopf Prize

Fedor Maichow Poetry Prize

Fontane Prize of the Berlin Art Prize - Jubilee Foundation 1848/1948

Fontane Prize of the City of Neuruppin

Fontane Prize of the Theodor Fontane Society for the younger generation

Group 48 sponsorship award for young people and young authors

Prize for literature from the state capital Düsseldorf

Opus Primum sponsorship award from the Volkswagen Foundation
Franz Tumler Literature Prize for debut novels
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
Peace electricity price
Friedrich Gerstäcker Prize
Friedrich Glauser Prize for crime literature
Friedrich Hebbel Prize
Friedrich Hölderlin Prize
Friedrich Märker Prize for essayists
Friedrich Nietzsche Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Literature
Fritz Reuter Prize (Hamburg)

G

Gellert Prize
Georg Büchner Prize
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Prize
Georg Dehio Book Prize
Georg K. Glaser Prize
Georg Kaiser Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
Georg Mackensen Literature Prize
George Konell Prize of the state capital Wiesbaden
Gerhard Beier Prize
Gerhart Hauptmann Prize
Gerlinger Poetry Prize
Gerrit Engelke Prize
Geschwister-Scholl-Prize
Gesswein price
Gleim Literature Prize
Göttingen moose
Göttingen bookmarks
Grimmelshausen Prize
Great Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
Grand Prize of the Frankfurt Authors' Foundation
Günter Eich Prize
Günter Kunert Literature Prize for Poetry (new, announced for 2021 and endowed with 10,000 euros by the Itzehoe Cultural Foundation )
Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize for books for children and young people
Gustav Regulator Prize

H

Hamburg Literature Awards , until 2018: Hamburg sponsorship awards for literature and literary translations

Hannelore Greve Literature Prize

Hans Böttcher Prize

Hans Erich Nossack Prize

Hans Fallada Prize

Hans Henning Holm Prize

Hans-im-Glück Prize

Hans Sachs Prize of the City of Nuremberg, see Hans Sachs

Hansjörg Martin Prize, see Friedrich Glauser Prize # Hansjörg Martin Prize - children's and youth crime prize

Hattinger Prize for Young Literature

Heinrich Böll Prize

Heinrich Heine Prize (City of Düsseldorf)

Heinrich Mann Prize

Heinrich Schmidt Barrien Prize

Heinrich Wolgast Prize

Helmut M. Braem Translator Award , see Circle of Friends for the Promotion of Literary and Scientific Translations # Helmut M. Braem Translator Award

Hermann Hesse Literature Prize , Karlsruhe

Hermann Hesse Prize, Calw (International Hermann Hesse Society, new since 2017)

Hermann Kesten Prize

Hermann Lenz Prize

Hermann Sinsheimer Prize

Hertha Koenig Literature Prize

Hilde Domin Prize for Literature in Exile

Historical Nonfiction Award Schloss Burg on the Wupper since 1984, in Solingen awarded

Historical non-fiction book prize of the Vereinigung der Heimatfreunde am Mittelrhein eV, since 2003, total endowment: 900 €

Horst Bingel Prize for Literature

Hubert Fichte Prize

Hugo Ball Prize

Hugo Jacobi Prize

Starvation Prize

I.

Ida Dehmel Literature Prize
Immermann Prize
Island writer
Inge Czernik Prize for Poetry (formerly “Lyrischer Oktober” prize), see Czernik-Verlag “Edition L”
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
Ingeborg Drewitz Literature Prize for Prisoners
International Literature Prize - House of World Cultures
Irmgard Heilmann Prize
Irseer Pegasus
Italo Svevo Prize

J

Annual scholarship for writers from the Ministry of Science and Art of the State of Baden-Württemberg

Jakob Wassermann Literature Prize

Jean Paul Prize

Jeanette Schocken Prize , Bremerhaven Citizens Prize for Literature

Joachim Ringelnatz Prize

Johann Friedrich von Cotta Prize for Literature and Translation from the City of Stuttgart

Johann Gottfried Seume Literature Prize

Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Literature and Politics

Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation

Johann Peter Hebel Prize

Johannes Bobrowski Medal

Johannes R. Becher Medal

Josef Guggenmos Prize of the German Academy for Children's and Young Adult Literature, see Josef Guggenmos # Josef Guggenmos Prize

Josef Schlicht Medal from the Straubing-Bogen district, see Josef Schlicht # Josef Schlicht Medal

Joseph Breitbach Prize

Joseph Heinrich Colbin Prize

Julius Campe Prize

Young Literature Forum Hessen-Thuringia

K

Karl Otten Prize of the German Literature Archive, see Karl Otten
Karl Preusker Medal
Karl Sczuka Prize
Kassel Literature Prize
Klaus-Michael Kühne Prize
Kleist Prize
Kleist-Förderpreis, see Dramaturgische Gesellschaft # Kleist-Förderpreis
Klopstock Prize for New Literature
Koblenz Literature Prize
Korczak Prize of the German Korczak Society
Kranichsteiner Literature Prize
Kurd Laßwitz Prize
Kurt Morawietz Literature Prize
Kurt Tucholsky Prize (Germany)
Kurt Wolff Prize for the promotion of a diverse publishing and literary scene, see Kurt Wolff Foundation # Kurt Wolff Prize

L.

M.

Mannheim Literature Prize (2004–2011: Mannheim Heinrich Vetter Literature Prize)
Mainz town clerk
Mara Cassens Prize
Marburg Literature Prize
Margarete Schrader Prize
Marieluise Fleißer Prize
Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize
Marlowe (Literature Prize)
Martha Saalfeld sponsorship award
Märkisches scholarship for literature
Poetry Prize Merano
MIMI (Book Prize)
Mörike Prize from the city of Fellbach
Moers Literature Prize
Montblanc literary competition
Paul Maar scholarship from the Children's and Youth Theater Center in Germany

N

NDR culture non-fiction book award
Nelly Sachs Prize
Nettetal Literature Prize
New prose
new german literature award ( ndl award)
Nicolas Born Prize of the State of Lower Saxony
Lower Rhine Literature Prize of the City of Krefeld
North Hessian author award

O

P

Paul Celan Prize for Translators

Peter Huchel Prize

Peter Rosegger Prize

Peter Weiss Prize of the City of Bochum

Fantastic Prize from the city of Wetzlar

poetbewegt literary competition (youth competition in Saxony)

The political book , awarded annually by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

Prize of the Frankfurt Anthology

Group 48 Prize for Poetry

Group 48 price for prose

Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair

Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair / non-fiction and essay writing

Bookworm Award ( ZDF student award )

Prize of the LiteraTour North

European Short Prose Prize (formerly German and International Short Story Prize)

Prize of the Weiden Literature Days

Prix de l'Académie de Berlin

R.

S.

T

Squidward Troll Prize
Theodor Storm Prize, see Theodor Storm Society # Theodor Storm Prize of the City of Husum
Theodor W. Adorno Prize
Thomas Mann Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
Thomas Mann Prize
Thomas Valentin literary prize of the city of Lippstadt
Thuringian Literature Prize
Goal scorer at Pariser Platz
Troisdorf picture book award
Troppauer cultural honor
Toucan price

U

V

People's Schiller Prize

W.

W.-G.-Sebald Literature Prize since 2020
Wachtberger ball
Walter Bauer Prize
Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize
Walter Kempowski Literature Prize
Walter Serner Prize
wbg book prize for the humanities
Weilheim Literature Prize
Werner Bergengruen Prize
Wild female price
Wilhelm Busch Prize
Wilhelm Lehmann Prize
Wilhelm Merton Prize for European Translations
Wilhelm Raabe Prize , Braunschweig
Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize , Braunschweig and Deutschlandradio
Knowledge! Non-fiction book prize for the humanities of the Scientific Book Society since 2019
Knowledge book of the year
Wolfgang Hohlbein Prize
Wolfgang Koeppen Prize
Requests to speak , literature prize for critical short texts
Würth Literature Prize

Z

Prize of the Zwickau literary competition

Individual evidence

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↑ https://www.degruyter.com/abstract/j/bd.1978.12.issue-8/bd.1978.12.8.469/bd.1978.12.8.469.xml
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According to an announcement from May 2019 by the German Book Trade Association , there will be a new German non-fiction book award from 2020 .
- All details on the German Non-Fiction Book Prize of the Börsenverein , boersenblatt.net May 21, 2019, the main sponsor is the Deutsche Bank Foundation
- New non-fiction book award Süddeutsche Zeitung May 20, 2019
- Literature New German Non-Fiction Prize , by Sabine Kieselbach, Deutsche Welle May 21, 2019
- Premiere 2020 German Non-Fiction Prize awarded for the first time , Saarbrücker Zeitung May 21, 2019
- Industry: Awards - The German Non-Fiction Prize - an important award
- In the future, a German non-fiction book prize will be awarded
- New German non-fiction book award , Focus May 21, 2019
- A praise of the non-fiction book , book report June 6, 2019
- Non-fiction prize will not be awarded in 2020, accessed March 30, 2020
^ Günter Kunert Literature Prize for Poetry from the Itzhoe Cultural Foundation .
↑ Kulturpreise.de Historical non-fiction book prize Schloss Burg an der Wupper
↑ Kulturpreise.de Historical non-fiction book award of the Vereinigung der Heimatfreunde am Mittelrhein eV
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- https://www.wbg-wissenverbindet.de/foerderprojekte
- Thomas Bauer receives the »KNOWLEDGE! Non-fiction prize of the wbg for the humanities "
- Non-fiction prize to Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer awarded by Andreas Hasenkamp, Wolbeck & Münster June 6, 2019
- wbg-Magazin 03/2018