Prize of the literary houses
The Prize of the Literature Houses has been awarded annually since 2002 by the Network of Literature Houses during the Leipzig Book Fair to a German-speaking author for extraordinary text and presentation qualities. The prize consists of a reading tour through a total of 14 (as of summer 2020) united literature houses in the network with a total fee of 20,000 euros (as of 2020) as well as a special event (previously each with its own laudatory speech) in each literature house visited.
background
What the literary houses have in common is the concept of content of offering a forum for the mediation of literature in its various forms of expression and facets. The focus is on the mediation, the implementation or “return” of literature to the spoken word, to the reading, the discussion, the literary discourse. In order to underline this aesthetic concept and to illustrate it in an exemplary manner, the literaturhaus.net affiliated literature houses award a literary prize once a year. This award is intended for authors who are particularly committed to the communication of literature. Particular emphasis is placed on a contemporary relevant presentation of literature that breaks new ground and thus continues and updates the tradition of literary lecture. The prize should not just be an award, but should continue and support the project. Therefore, the literary prize awarded consists of a reading tour by the respective prize winner.
jury
The jury consists of the program managers (literary house managers) of the literary houses linked in the network. The network currently (February 2017) consists of the Berlin Literary Colloquium and eight German literary houses in Berlin , Göttingen , Hamburg , Cologne , Leipzig , Rostock , Stuttgart and Wiesbaden , the Austrian literary houses in Salzburg and Vienna and the Swiss literary houses in Zurich and Basel .
Award winners
- 2002 Ulrike Draesner
- 2003 Bodo Hell
- 2004 Peter Kurzck
- 2005 Michael Lentz
- 2006 Uwe Kolbe
- 2007 Sibylle Lewitscharoff
- 2008 Anselm Glück
- 2009 Ilija Trojanow
- 2010 Thomas Kapielski
- 2011 Elke Erb
- 2012 Feridun Zaimoglu
- 2013 Hanns Zischler
- 2014 Judith Schalansky
- 2015 Nicolas Mahler
- 2016 Ulf Stolterfoht
- 2017 Terézia Mora
- 2018 Jaroslav Rudiš
- 2019 Antje Rávic Strubel
- 2020 Marlene Streeruwitz
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Prize of the Literaturhäuser 2020 goes to Marlene Streeruwitz. In: buchmarkt.de. January 15, 2020, accessed January 15, 2020 .