Ludwig Uhland Prize

The Ludwig Uhland Prize was founded in 1991 by Carl Herzog von Württemberg . In line with the namesake Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862), it is intended to honor people who

• who with their work have made a significant contribution to the understanding of the culture of Württemberg or the German south-west;

• who have submitted important studies about Ludwig Uhland or who have distinguished themselves in one of Uhland's fields of work;

• who have emerged with significant work in dialect research or dialect poetry .

The Ludwig Uhland Prize is endowed with 10,000 euros. Since 2001, a sponsorship award has also been awarded, endowed with 5,000 euros. A jury selects the award winners for whom an application is not possible.

The award ceremony takes place every two years on Ludwig Uhland's birthday, April 26th, in the Ordenssaal of Ludwigsburg Palace. In 2011, due to the Easter holidays, the award was rescheduled to April 29th.

Grand Prize Winner

• 1991: Wilhelm Karl König , dialect writer
• 1994: Hermann Bausinger , empirical cultural scientist
• 1997: Karl Moersch , writer and politician
• 1999: Arno Ruoff , dialect researcher
• 2001: Bernhard Zeller , literary historian and archivist
• 2003: Hans-Georg Wehling , political scientist
• 2005: Manfred Bosch , writer
• 2007: Gottlob Haag , dialect poet
• 2009: Hans-Ulrich Simon, literary researcher
• 2011: Bernhard Hurm and Uwe Zellmer, Theater Lindenhof in Melchingen
• 2013: Hellmut G. Haasis , writer
• 2015: Bernhard Fischer, literary scholar, director of the Goethe and Schiller Archives Weimar
• 2017: Mathias Beer, historian, University of Tübingen
• 2019: Dieter Langewiesche , historian, University of Tübingen

Prize winners of the sponsorship award

• 2001: Helmuth Mojem , literary scholar
• 2003: Petra Zwerenz , dialect writer
• 2005: Marek Hałub , Germanist
• 2007: Kurt Oesterle , writer
• 2009: Walle Sayer , dialect writer
• 2011: Hubert Klöpfer , publisher
• 2013: Georg Günther, musicologist
• 2015: Susanne Hinkelbein , composer and playwright
• 2017: Stefan Knödler, Germanist, University of Tübingen
• 2019: Dominik Kuhn , language artist and Swabian voice actor, Reutlingen