Literature Prize Hommage à la France

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Ingo Kolboom in conversation with Ulrich Wickert, the winner of the literary prize “Hommage à la France” in November 2018 in the Dresden Kulturpalast

The Hommage à la France literary prize is a German literary prize that has been awarded by the Brigitte Schubert-Oustry Foundation in Dresden since 2013 under the name “ Hommage à la France” and is under the patronage of the Institut franҫais Dresden . It is awarded to people who have published a book on France or on Franco-German issues and projects. Ingo Kolboom is honorary president and member of the board of trustees .

Brigitte Schubert-Oustry

Brigitte Schubert-Oustry (* 1935 in Dresden), author and journalist, was a foreign correspondent in Paris for 30 years for radio stations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. She was married to the French entrepreneur Oustry and lived most of the time in Paris. In 2013 she established the Schubert-Oustry-Stiftung to honor authors who have written important books about Franco-German relations.

Brigitte Schubert-Oustry was awarded the French Order of Merit Ordre national du Mérite as Chevalier de l'ordre national du Mérite for the work of the literary foundation “Hommage à la France” in February 2020 in Dresden . The award was given by the French ambassador Anne-Marie Descôtes .

Award winners

  • 2013 - Pascale Hugues : Marthe and Mathilde. A family between France and Germany, Rowohlt 2008
  • 2014 - Manfred Flügge : Between dreamland and refuge. Heinrich Mann and France, Insel Verlag 2013
  • 2015 - Anna Tüne : On the restoration of happiness. A German childhood in France, Galiani Verlag 2010
  • 2016 - Antoine Leiris : You don't get my hate, Verlag Blanvalet, Munich 2016
  • 2017 - the prize was not awarded
  • 2018 - Ulrich Wickert : You have to love France to understand it, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2017
  • 2019 - Wilfried Loth : Almost a revolution. May 68 in France, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., 2018

Web links

Commons : Hommage à la France literary prize  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Literature Prize (accessed November 24, 2018)
  2. ↑ Schubert-Oustry (accessed November 24, 2018)
  3. ↑ DNN of November 1, 2018
  4. ↑ Macron honors literature award (accessed November 24, 2018)
  5. ↑ Dresden writer receives French Order of Merit (accessed on February 29, 2020)
  6. ↑ Prize winners (accessed November 24, 2018)