Heinrich Maria Ledig Rowohlt Foundation

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The Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation is a foundation to promote German-speaking translators . It has awarded the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize since 1992 , the Jane Scatcherd Prize since 1995 and the Paul Scheerbart Prize since 1998 .

history

The Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation was founded by his wife Jane Ledig-Rowohlt (née Scatcherd) in 1992, the year the publisher Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt died . The foundation's capital stems from the sale of a more than four meter wide painting by Wolf Vostell entitled You are Leaving the American Sector from 1964, which hung in the foyer of the Rowohlt Verlag until 1994 , and a donation from the widow. The statutes say: "It was the wish of the publisher Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt to support the often underestimated work of the translators of literary works with an annual sponsorship award." The chairman of the Hamburg-based foundation was Michael Naumann , the former Managing Director of Rowohlt Verlag, as well as the lawyer Hans-Jürgen P. Groth and the publisher Nikolaus Hansen .

The Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize has been awarded by the foundation since 1992 and is presented every year at the Frankfurt Book Fair . In 1995, the Jane Scatcherd Prize (named after Ledig-Rowohlt's widow) followed, and in 1998 the Paul Scheerbart Prize (named after the writer Paul Scheerbart ). The first jury was determined by Ledig-Rowohlt himself. In addition to Naumann, it included Helmut Frielinghaus , Hans Georg Heepe and Dieter E. Zimmer . In 2014, Hansen chairs the jury, which includes translator Susanne Höbel, publisher Antje Kunstmann and Rowohlt editor-in-chief Thomas Überhoff. The Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize is endowed with 15,000 euros, the Jane Scatcherd Prize with 10,000 euros and the Paul Scheerbart Prize with 5,000 euros. The award goes to "outstanding achievements in the field of literary translation".

In addition to the prizes, the foundation also supports the work of German-speaking literary translators in other ways. The foundation supports the Single House in the American state of New York and the association Freundeskreis for the international promotion of literary and academic translations .

Award winners

Heinrich Maria Ledig Rowohlt Prize

Jane Scatcherd Prize

Paul Scheerbart Prize

literature

  • A loving translator. Ten Years of the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation 1992–2001 , ed. by the jury of the foundation. Berlin, Hamburg, New York 2001, without ISBN.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf Vostell: You are Leaving the American Sector , 1964 at the Museum Folkwang .
  2. ↑ A loving translator. Ten Years of the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation 1992–2001 , ed. by the jury of the foundation. Berlin, Hamburg, New York 2001, without ISBN, p. 7.
  3. ↑ Nikolaus Hansen on the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation's translation prize . In: Book Market of October 10, 2010.
  4. ↑ a b c Website of the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation
  5. ↑ Press release on the 2014 award.