Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair / non-fiction and essay writing
Winner and nominated authors for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the non-fiction / essay category . The award has been presented at the Leipzig Book Fair since 2005 . University publications and published works are excluded from the price. The award is endowed with 15,000 euros for the award-winning author, with an additional 1,000 euros for each nominee (as of 2019).
Award winners
Works by authors with German citizenship were awarded the most awards (14 victories), followed by Israel ( Saul Friedländer ) and Austria ( Franz Schuh ). So far, no writer has won the award more than once. For every two nominations Götz Aly (2005 and 2013), Lothar Müller (2012 and 2019) and Ulrich Raulff (2010 and 2016) came, but only Raulff could win the award once.
The publisher with the most award winners is CHBeck (five wins), followed by Rowohlt (three awards) and Berlin Verlag (two successes).
| year | Prize winner | title | publishing company |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Rüdiger Safranski | Schiller or The Invention of German Idealism | Hanser |
| Götz Aly | Hitler's people's state | S. Fischer | |
| Kurt Flasch | Eve and Adam | CH Beck | |
| Michael Hagner | Ingenious brains | Wallstein | |
| Jürgen Manthey | Koenigsberg | Hanser | |
| 2006 | Franz Schuh | Serious allegations, dirty laundry | Zsolnay |
| Peter of Matt | The intrigue. Theory and Practice of Deceit | Hanser | |
| Wolfgang Pehnt | German architecture since 1900 | DVA | |
| Jan Assmann | The Magic Flute. Opera and Mystery | Hanser | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Graf | Moses legacy. About divine and human laws | CH Beck | |
| 2007 | Saul Friedländer | The years of annihilation. The Third Reich and the Jews 1939–1945 | CH Beck |
| Josef Haslinger | Phi Phi Island - A Report | S. Fischer | |
| Günther Rühle | Theater in Germany 1887–1945. Its events - its people | S. Fischer | |
| Bernd Stöver | The Cold War. History of a Radical Age 1947-1991 | CH Beck | |
| Christina von Braun | Silent post. Another family story | Propylaea | |
| 2008 | Irina Liebmann | Would it be nice It would be nice! My father Rudolf Herrnstadt | Berlin publishing house |
| Bernd Greiner | War without fronts. The USA in Vietnam | Hamburg edition | |
| Thomas Karlauf | Stefan George. The discovery of the charism | Karl Blessing Publishing House | |
| Michael Maar | Solus Rex. The beautiful evil world of Vladimir Nabokov | Berlin publishing house | |
| Jan Philipp Reemtsma | Trust and violence. Attempt on a special constellation of modernity | Hamburg edition | |
| 2009 | Herfried Münkler | The Germans and their myths | Rowohlt |
| Matthias Frings | The last communist. The dreamlike life of Ronald M. Schernikau | Structure of the publishing house | |
| Andreas Kossert | Cold home. The story of the German expellees after 1945 | Siedler Verlag | |
| Jürgen Nephew | Darwin. The adventure of life | C. Bertelsmann | |
| Karl-Heinz Ott | Tumult and grace. About Georg Friedrich Handel | Hoffmann and Campe | |
| 2010 | Ulrich Raulff | Circle without a master. Stefan George's afterlife. An abysmal story | CH Beck |
| Michael Hampe | The perfect life. Four meditations on happiness | Hanser | |
| Steffen Martus | The brothers Grimm. A biography | Rowohlt Berlin Verlag | |
| Frank Schirrmacher | Payback: Why we are forced to do what we don't want to do in the information age and how we regain control over our thinking | Blessing Publishing House | |
| Wolfgang Ullrich | Refined art. Exercise before reproductions | Publishing house Klaus Wagenbach | |
| 2011 | Henning Ritter | Notebooks | Berlin publishing house |
| Patrick Bahners | The alarmists. The German fear of Islam. A polemic | CH Beck | |
| Andrea Boehm | God and the crocodiles. A trip through the Congo | Pantheon Publishing House | |
| Karen Duve | Eat decently. A self-experiment | Galiani Verlag Berlin | |
| Marie Luise Knott | Unlearn. Paths of thought with Hannah Arendt | Matthes & Seitz Berlin | |
| 2012 | Jörg Baberowski | Burned earth. Stalin's rule of violence | CH Beck |
| Carolin Emcke | As we desire | S. Fischer | |
| Manfred Geier | Enlightenment. The European project | Rowohlt | |
| Lothar Müller | White magic. The era of paper | Hanser | |
| Wilfried F. Schoeller | Alfred Doblin. A biography | Hanser | |
| 2013 | Helmut Böttiger | The group 47 | DVA |
| Götz Aly | The burdened. Euthanasia 1939–1945 | S. Fischer | |
| Kurt Bayertz | The upright walk | CH Beck | |
| Hans Belting | Faces. Cultural history of the face | CH Beck | |
| Wolfgang Streeck | Bought time. The postponed crisis of democratic capitalism | Suhrkamp | |
| 2014 | Helmut Lethen | The photographer's shadow | Rowohlt Berlin |
| Diedrich Diederichsen | About pop music | Publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch | |
| Jürgen Kaube | Max Weber: A life between the eras | Rowohlt Berlin | |
| Barbara Vinken | Dressed: the secret of fashion | Klett-Cotta publishing house | |
| Roger Willemsen | The House: One year in Parliament | S. Fischer | |
| 2015 | Philipp Ther | The new order on the old continent. A history of neoliberal Europe | Suhrkamp |
| Philipp Felsch | The long summer of theory. Story of a revolt. 1960 to 1990 | CH Beck | |
| Karl-Heinz Göttert | Myth of power to speak. Another story of rhetoric | S. Fischer | |
| Pure sting | Kafka. The early years | S. Fischer | |
| Joseph Vogl | The sovereignty effect | Diaphanes | |
| 2016 | Jürgen Goldstein | Georg Forster. Between freedom and the force of nature | Matthes & Seitz Berlin |
| Christoph Ribbat | In the restaurant. A story from the belly of modernity | Suhrkamp | |
| Ulrich Raulff | The last century of the horses. Story of a breakup | CH Beck | |
| Werner Busch | Adolph Menzel. In search of reality | CH Beck | |
| Hans Joachim Schellnhuber | Self-immolation. The fatal triangular relationship between climate, humans and carbon | C. Bertelsmann | |
| 2017 | Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger | Maria Theresa. The empress in her time | CH Beck |
| Leonhard Horowski | The Europe of Kings. Power and play in the courts of the 17th and 18th centuries | Rowohlt | |
| Klaus Reichert | Cloud service. Figures of the fugitive | S. Fischer | |
| Jörg later | Siegfried Kracauer. A biography | Suhrkamp | |
| Volker Weiss | The authoritarian revolt. The New Right and the Fall of the West | Velcro cotta | |
| 2018 | Karl Schlögel | The Soviet Century. Archeology of a Lost World | CH Beck |
| Martin Geck | Beethoven. The creator and his universe | Siedler Verlag | |
| Gerd Koenen | The color red. Origins and history of communism | CH Beck | |
| Andreas Reckwitz | The society of singularities | Suhrkamp | |
| Bernd Roeck | The morning of the world | CH Beck | |
| 2019 | Harald Jähner | Wolf time. Germany and the Germans 1945–1955 | Rowohlt Berlin |
| Frank Biess | Republic of Fear. Another story of the Federal Republic | Rowohlt Publishing House | |
| Marko Martin | The house in Habana. A report | Wehrhahn Verlag | |
| Lothar Müller | Freud's things. The divan, the Apollo candles & the soul in the technical age | The other library | |
| Kia Vahland | Leonardo da Vinci and the women. An artist biography | Insel Verlag | |
| 2020 | Bettina Hitzer | Feel cancer. A story of emotions from the 20th century | Velcro cotta |
| Michael Martens | In the fire of the worlds: Ivo Andrić. A European life | Zsolnay | |
| Armin Nassehi | Template. Theory of the digital society | CH Beck | |
| Julia Voss | Hilma af Klint. Amaze humanity | S. Fischer | |
| Jan Wenzel (Ed.) | Uncover the year 1990 | Spector Books |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Registration documents "Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair" (PDF, 580.3 kB, accessed on March 25, 2019).
- ↑ The nominees for the Leipzig Book Prize have been determined. In: sz.de. February 11, 2020, accessed February 11, 2020 .