Michael Althen Prize

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The Michael Althen Prize for Criticism has been awarded annually since 2012 by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) in honor of the editor and film critic Michael Althen , who was employed there until his death in 2011 , with which one form of criticism is to be recognized , "In which analytical sharpness and emotion condition and complement one another". The prize was initially endowed with 10,000 euros , since 2015 the prize money has been 5000 euros.

According to the official guidelines, anyone who posted a review between August 15 of the current year and August 15 of the previous year can apply for the award. The submission of German-language texts is preferred. The award ceremony takes place in mid-October.

Jury members

The construction of the jury stipulates that it should not consist of critics. Since the beginning, the jury has included the actress Claudia Michelsen , the directors Dominik Graf and Tom Tykwer , the writer Daniel Kehlmann and the actor Hanns Zischler . Zischler left the jury in 2016.

Prize winners

year Prize winner Reason
2012 Sarah Khan Features essay on the television series Dr. House
2013 Willi Winkler Features essay on the critic of religion Karlheinz Deschner under the title Antichrist
2014 Hans Huett Features essay Fear of Equality via the criticism of homophobic thinking
2015 Rupprecht Podszun Features essay Please don't mix anything! about the copyright lawsuit of the Suhrkamp publishing house against the Munich Residenztheater because of Frank Castorf's "Baal" production
2016 Kia Vahland Features essay Masters who fall from the sky over works of art that are mistakenly attributed to Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo
2017 Lara Fritzsche Features essay Kulturschock about dealing with crude arguments against minorities, the uneasiness of 'You can still say that' and the demarcation between the uniformity of political correctness and decency
2018 Antje Stahl Features essay No more women ghetto, please on the exclusion of women in architecture
2019 Verena Lueken Features essay “This is life”, praised by the American writer Richard Ford

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Claudius Seidl : The Michael Althen Prize for Criticism. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . September 11, 2012, accessed October 17, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Claudius Seidl : The Michael Althen Prize for Criticism 2015. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . May 23, 2015, accessed May 13, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b In honor of the author The Michael Althen Prize for Criticism 2014
  4. ↑ FAZ: The Michael Althen Prize for Criticism 2016 ( Memento from July 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ Johanna Adorján : The tone that everyone loved. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 17, 2012, accessed October 17, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Honor for Willi Winkler. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 13, 2013, accessed October 17, 2013 .
  7. ↑ FAZ honors gay author Hans Hütt. Retrieved April 9, 2015 .
  8. ↑ We'll be back in the cinema in FAZ on October 17, 201, page 11
  9. ↑ Althen Prize for Rupprecht Podszun's "Baal" report on nachtkritik.de. Retrieved October 12, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Rupprecht Podszun : "Please don't mix anything!" - Dispute over copyright. Observations of the trial of the Suhrkamp publishing house against the Munich Residenztheater because of Frank Castorf's "Baal" production. In: nachtkritik.de . February 18, 2015, accessed October 12, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Price for Kia Vahland. Retrieved May 12, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Lara Fritzsche wins Michael-Althen Prize in FAZ on October 17, 2017, page 9
  13. ↑ The winning text 2018 | Michael Althen. Retrieved February 25, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Verena Lueken excellent. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .